And those goodies? They’re good for you, too. There’s been a lot already said about the health benefits of adding fish to your diet, but consider this from the Mayo Clinic: Eating a couple of servings of fish a week could reduce by a third your risk of keeling over from a heart attack. Considering […]
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Nine is enough?
The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents recently gave President David L. Boren the authority to negotiate all alignment options, prompting a largely anticipated move to the Pacific-12 with Oklahoma State University and possible other Big 12 cohorts. But before Pistol Pete loaded up the Sooner Schooner and moved to Beverly — er, Walnut Creek, […]
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SOLD!
Oklahoma Publishing Co., which owns The Oklahoman newspaper, NewsOK and a variety of other assets, announced it was being purchased by the Anschutz Corporation, owned by Colorado-based billionaire Philip Anschutz. All stock of the privately owned OPUBCO is to be sold to Anschutz in early October, Christy Gaylord Everest, chairwoman and CEO of OPUBCO, said […]
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Tackle, hunting gear, camping supplies, and … discrimination?
The suit alleges that Bass Pro stores in Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Alabama routinely denied positions to qualified blacks and Hispanics, retaliated against employees, and that managers in some of the stores made derogatory racial comments acknowledging the practice, CBS reported. Bass Pro has two stores in Oklahoma — one in Bricktown and another in […]
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Terrill Trouble, Part We’ve-lost-count
The announcement was made and a press conference held on Sept. 16, a Friday, around 4 p.m., otherwise known in the political world as “bury the story time.” The investigation stems from felony charges in Oklahoma County against Terrill, a Republican, and former Democratic Sen. Debbe Leftwich. Terrill allegedly offered to create a position at […]
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‘Counterstrike’
“Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda” explores how the lessons learned from the intelligence failures of 9/11 were applied on the battlefield and how the different agencies operate. Shanker, an Oklahoma City native and Pentagon correspondent for The Times, is scheduled to sign copies at 2 p.m. Sunday at Full […]
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What the cluck?
I grew up in western Woods County in what is considered part of the Prairie Chicken habitat. When I lived on the farm in the 1950s, probably 20-25 percent of the land was under cultivation. We regularly saw a handful of prairie chickens, seldom more than a dozen. During the last 60 years, the habitat […]
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Soak the rich
The Congressional Budget Office says the top 1 percent pay 27.6 percent of all federal taxes compared to the 35.6 percent of all national wealth they own (the bottom 90 percent owned just 25 percent). Billionaire Warren Buffet pointed out in an Aug. 14 New York Times op-ed that because investment income is taxed at […]
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Men’s room
Roller derby’s impressive expansion into the metro over the last few years meant it was only a matter of time before men got into the act. Daniel Covey is spearheading an effort to cobble together an Oklahoma City team to put men’s roller derby on the map. Since the resurgence of high-impact roller derby as […]
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Two guys, one beer
How we love to have our assumptions proven wrong, especially if it involves violence and alcohol. According to a July 7 story on newsok.com, Oklahoma City police arrested two men on July 3, Jose Cardona, 26, and Heraldo Alahandro Martinez, 26, on complaints of public drunkenness and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, as […]