Oklahoma’s budget woes are blamed on fossil fuel job loss. A culprit, though, is four years of income tax reductions by the governor and legislature.
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Chicken-Fried News: Not so lucky
A dip in the oil and gas industry has cost over 1,000 jobs, and things aren’t looking up yet.
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Commentary: The time is now
Through my public service at state and local levels and through my board service for Allied Arts and other arts entities, I have come to believe strongly in the following logic model: >> Oklahoma City is not a real city if it lacks arts and culture. >> Our arts and culture cannot exist without the […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Science, schmience!
Harold Hamm still denies that fracking causes earthquakes, despite scientific research by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Chicken-Fried News: Moving on
Oil tycoons, including Harold Hamm, want you to just ignore all those earthquakes we keep having.
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Chicken-Fried News: You’ve heard this one, right?
Boy meets girl, boy asks girl to marry him, boy goes on to make a fortune, boy and girl tire of each other, boy and girl get a divorce. Well, boy and girl never signed a prenuptial agreement, and now, rather than the optimistic kids they were, they’re cynical adults with around $20 billion dollars […]
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Chicken Fried News: Prosperity or bust
Economy expert Russell Evans believes Oklahoma could be close to another oil bust.
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Chicken-Fried News: Unleaded pessimism
Gas prices plummet, casting uncertainty on the future of Oklahoma’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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Chesapeake Energy campus Credit: Mark Hancock Despite being a vocal critic in 2005 of China’s efforts to buy the American oil company Unocal, he has declined comment regarding Chesapeake Energy’s recent $1.02 billion joint venture with a Chinese oil company for part of Chesapeake’s holdings in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas — acreage in the […]