On Dec. 19, U.S. district judge Joe Heaton ruled that Oklahoma City’s anti-panhandling ordinance is constitutional. The ordinance, as it was originally written, was designed to clear medians of individuals asking for money at OKC’s busy intersections, but after receiving pushback from organizations that work with the city’s homeless as well as a lawsuit from […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Median mayhem
ACLU of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit challenging Oklahoma City’s controversial median ordinance.
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Letters to the Editor: March 16, 2016
This article is superb, from my point of view, particularly for completing the story of the Kiowa Six and Lois Smoky as told by Ms. Satepauhoodle-Mikkanen.
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Letters to the Editor: Feb. 17, 2016
Many of us find political correctness to be offensive. In many instances, it amounts to arbitrary censorship imposed on us by those who want to take issue with history, political views or artistic or literary works.
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Letters to the Editor: Jan. 27, 2016
I am concerned that in the rush to remove panhandlers from our public roadways, we are preventing our citizenship from the right to freely assemble.
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Cover Story: Aid groups, lawmakers and leaders work to define panhandling while protecting some of our city’s most in-need residents
“At some point, all of us are capable of ending up at a public spot and begging because we are just trying to get the next meal.”
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Commentary: The honest solution
City must address poverty, homelessness, mental health and addiction holistically, not punitively.
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Proposed city ordinance could be challenged in court
The law would prohibit individuals from being in median and might prohibit free speech, according to ACLU.
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Ask anyone and they’ll name intersections where panhandlers stand in Oklahoma City.
Ask anyone and they’ll name intersections where panhandlers stand in Oklahoma City.