Brown will bring his mid-century modern wares to a new audience hopefully ready to shop for the holidays. “We wanted to do something different,” he said. “It was affordable, so we thought we’d give it a shot and thought it would be fun to be a part of, too.” RetrOKC is one of 30 vendors […]
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Forced out
Nichols, 64, filed a legal challenge last week to a state law that went into effect July 1, 2012, which prevents two or more sex offenders from living in the same place. “They (lawmakers) made the law specifically for this ministry because I’m the only one in Oklahoma who does this,” he said. “Oklahoma law […]
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Case closed?
The shattered ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Mark Hancock Seventeen years ago, a truck bomb ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Six years later, the federal government executed Timothy McVeigh for the crime that killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others. But the federal […]
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Ruling class
He also stated during the meeting that one of the most powerful men in Oklahoma City was behind a much-criticized election campaign and held sway over many important decisions made in the city, and that municipal government was in danger of becoming more of a plutocracy rather than a representative democracy. Shadid’s comments, made during […]
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Nichols’ tower
Not only is Devon Energy’s tower transforming the Oklahoma City skyline, but Project 180 — undertaken at the behest of Nichols as a condition of the tower’s location — is transforming the streets of much of downtown as well. But Nichols’ influence is not limited to Devon tower and the Project 180 area; he also […]