That’s what state Rep. Tom Newell, a Seminole Republican, apparently thinks, according to a recent media report, and he wants to “rein” it in through more intense legislative oversight. Newell’s comments were prompted by news that many Oklahoma universities and colleges were actually spending more this fiscal year than last year, despite a recent state […]
Oklahoma Gazette
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARYGourmet Gallery is offering 20-percent discount during a 10th-anniversary open house from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at both locations, 2820 N.W. 122nd in Oklahoma City and 1532 S. Boulevard in Edmond. Vendor representatives will offer samples of recipes alongside grilling demonstrations by American Propane. OPENINGSDivine Swine, 7801 N. May, is aiming for […]
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Double trouble
Tom and Gladys Erbar of El Reno are the principal plaintiffs on one lawsuit (CJ-2011-159), while the other (CJ- 2011-115), represented by Oklahoma City attorney Mark Henricksen, seeks class-action status and currently has nine listed plaintiffs. Henricksen told Oklahoma Gazette the lawsuit originally named 801 defendants, but one defendant has since been dropped due to […]
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CFN QOTW, part deux
“There’s another level of infinite, lonely flatness to Oklahoma that takes your breath away. Very hot and windswept, often sweltering, still enforcing strange liquor laws (no cold anything) Oklahomans look to Texas … for entertainment!? Even though Tulsa and Oklahoma City aren’t too bad, this state (along with its neighbor Kansas) is where the modern […]
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Know your Snooki!
Chicken-Fried News weeps for the future. Seriously, however, OU English composition graduate teaching assistant Sarah Barry came up with the 3000-level course, which was offered during the intersession that ended Aug. 20. The class analyzed how the cast members of MTV’s monster hit “reality” series interacted with one another — more than sexually, you mean? […]
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We’re no angels
What’s a better way to draw attention to your band than nabbing George Michael to play bass? No, not the one from Wham!, but “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” actor Michael Cera. Cera — who played a character named George Michael in TV’s “Arrested Development” — is actually a skilled bassist, and singer/guitarist Nick Thorburn […]
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Final Stage?
A consortium — the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, the Oklahoma City Cultural Development Council, the Oklahoma Arts Council and Devon Energy — commissioned a study earlier this year to assess Stage Center’s future prospects. The Stage Center site sits in the long shadow of the under-construction Devon tower. In the 33-page final report obtained by […]
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Delicious discourse
I simply want to take a moment to say that — in all my years of reading the Gazette — I have never encountered a Commentary/Letters section as relevant, well-written and non ax-grinding/dead horse-kicking/ox-goring and positive as those very pages in the Aug. 10 edition. From Jason Reese’s Commentary “Okie local” to (hopefully) the last […]
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Calling Rep. Lankford
The $1.5 trillion is for deficit reduction, not just spending. Lankford obviously prefers groveling on his knees before the tea party loons and signing demagogic anti-tax pledges, but the inescapable reality is that tax revenues are 6.2 percent of GDP below what they were in 2000 (the lowest level since the 1940s), with 47 percent […]
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‘Bait and switch’
Unless the city has something more to offer than Austin, Texas, or Baltimore or Minneapolis or Phoenix (it’s not direct fights if you’ve traveled recently), recent history says otherwise. New construction has been a deficit producer in some places, and junked the hotel debt rating of Austin and Phoenix. Communication in the 21st century and […]