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After fighting an uphill battle for years, Oklahoma ballot access reformers are hoping to change what they consider the most restrictive laws in the nation. Now, the Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform coalition is taking the vote to the people. OBAR filed an initiative petition in September to put a new question on the 2008 […]

There may come a time when Robin Ventura decides he is ready to return to baseball in some capacity, but three years after officially ending his 16-season Major League playing career, he is doing just fine doing what he’s doing: nothing. OK, not exactly nothing. Ventura, 40, is keeping himself busy being a husband and […]

Amid the backdrop of a current investigation into Republican campaign contributions from 2004, sources inside the party have questioned contributions made for a vote recount last November. Rep. Todd Thomsen, R-Ada, won House District 25 last year after a recount declared him the winner two weeks following the election. The House Republican leadership organized a […]

State Speaker of the House Lance Cargill staved off a challenge and was nominated to repeat as speaker at his party’s retreat Tuesday morning. Meeting at the Noble Foundation in Ardmore, the Republican Caucus of the state House voted between Cargill and Rep. John Wright of Broken Arrow for the speakership beginning in 2009. A […]

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett presented “Saving Grace” star Holly Hunter and Oklahoma City native and series creator Nancy Miller with keys to the city today.   The Turner Network Television series — based around Hunter’s Oklahoma City Police Detective Grace Hanadarko character “? debuted in July and became the summer’s highest rated debuting television […]

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission voted 2-1 today to officially deny the application for the proposed Red Rock Power Plant.   OG&E Electric Services announced earlier this year they signed an agreement with Red Rock Power Partners to build the plant pending regulatory approval from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Others signing the agreement included Public Service […]

What gives with all the craziness in college football these days? Over the past two weekends, no less than eight ” count ’em, eight! ” top-10 teams have taken it on the chin. That kind of carnage is basically unheard of, but so far in 2007, upsets have been the rule rather than the exception. […]

National Karate and Tae Kwon Do in Oklahoma City is celebrating its strong showing in this year’s nationals, which hosted more than a thousand martial arts competitors. The school came home with 13 medals and three national champions, including David Steece. Steece started at National Karate when he was 6. Medals are just a small […]

Oklahoma forms the low-slung buckle on the proposed “NAFTA Superhighway,” a vast interstate transportation and communications belt that would cut through America’s midsection and connect Mexico with Canada. The superhighway could include automobile, trucking and rail traffic, along with oil and gas pipelines and power and electronic data transmission lines to increase the flow of […]