Oklahoma City as we know it was unrecognizable 40 years ago. While physical changes — like the contemporaneous influx of entertainment and eatery options — are obvious, the attitudes of city residents were also drastically different in 1979 and in the following decades. “1979 was important for a lot of reasons,” said Bob Blackburn, executive […]
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A newly created coalition is drafting language for a state ballot initiative that would raise the state gross production tax to fund a teacher pay raise
Raise gross production tax and get a teacher pay raise? One coalition is moving forward with its proposal.
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Some Oklahoma lawmakers and business leaders are calling for increased gross production taxes
Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance wants to return the gross production tax to 7 percent.
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Cover Story: Chicken-Fried News year in review and predictions for 2017
CFN looks back on 2016 and makes predictions about what Okies will get up to in 2017.
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Oklahoma earthquakes prompt legal action
Individuals, environmental protection groups and tribes have filed suit with various energy companies in Oklahoma due to damage caused by recent earthquakes.
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Chicken-Fried News: Recent rumblings
It seems Harold Hamm might have changed his views about manmade earthquakes just in time.
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Oil and gas laws pose problems for city residents
Laws leave municipal agencies unable to do much about complaints.
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Chicken-Fried News: Flavored with Hamm
Donald Trump could be considering Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm for the position of energy secretary in his cabinet.
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Dakota pipeline protests swell local and national sovereignty and human rights struggles
Seven months after they began, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests at North Dakota’s Standing Rock Indian Reservation have converged with Native American Heritage Month, bringing even greater focus on the thousands of people from various indigenous tribes and nations working to halt pipeline development on Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lands. The tribe’s goals are, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Stop the presses!
Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb recently talked to Enid Rotary Club about the effect of the oil and gas industry on Oklahoma’s economy.