Add “Black Hole” to the list of names people call the University of Oklahoma (OU) board of regents — right next to “corrupt,” “failures” and probably a less appropriate type of hole. Freedom of Information (FOI) Oklahoma presents the Black Hole award to an organization or individual “that has most thwarted the free flow of […]
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Chicken-Fried News: 2018 takeout
Fallin away The queen is dead; long live the king. Mary Fallin’s eight-year reign of terror over the state is over, and her successor Kevin Stitt is a political outsider who campaigned on his version of “drain the swamp” but has surrounded himself with insiders during his transition to the Governor’s Mansion. Oh, Gov. Fallin, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Friends forever
Oh, to be friends with U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, a man who will stand by his buds through thick and thin, whether they’ve been fired by President Donald Trump or they are being screamed at on Twitter by that same globally powerful fulminator. Well, at least he’s kind of loyal. According to The Oklahoman, Inhofe […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Great riddance
On the afternoon of July 5, the Scott Pruitt voodoo doll that took up residence in Chicken-Fried News World Headquarters on February 17, 2017, started smoking. No, not cigarettes or blunts, but the kind of radiant heat-related smoking that suggests an impending explosion. The CFN team all turned to their smartphones and laptops, furiously checking […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Mor chik’n
Sometimes, the Chicken-Fried News staff desperately tries to keep Environmental “Protection” Agency administrator Scott Pruitt out of its pages. After all, we want to be fair to everyone from this fair state that manages to reset Oklahoma’s “number of days without a national embarrassment” counter. But Pruitt is, as U.S. Sen. John “Not That One” […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Goon squad
This year, the worldwide journalism advocacy group Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States 45th in the world for press freedom. This puts the “land of the free and the home of the brave” just behind Romania, a country still trying to claw its way to political sanity nearly 30 years after the execution of […]
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Chicken-Fried News: No protection
With all the awful stories about Scott Pruitt’s paranoia, venality and extravagance, sometimes his horrible polices get swept aside. To paint a proper picture of just how terrible the current Environmental “Protection” Agency’s administrator is at actually protecting the environment, let Chicken-Fried News take you back five years to an awful day in a little […]
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Stemming the tide
In April 2017, as the opioid crisis continued to ravage Oklahoma, the state’s Attorney General Mike Hunter stood beside two state lawmakers — Sen. AJ Griffin and Rep. Tim Downing — to announce formation of the Oklahoma Commission on Opioid Abuse. Three months later, a federal report issued by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental […]
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COVER: Marijuana quest
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of weekly stories focusing on issues surrounding the possible legalization of medical marijuana in Oklahoma. In the 22 years since California passed Proposition 215, which legalized cultivation, possession and use of marijuana for medical purposes, 28 other states followed suit, reversing years of demonization of cannabis […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Residence evil
An April 5 New York Times article detailed Environmental “Protection” Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s bonkers expenditures and ethical lapses. Nothing to see here! The article outlined how Pruitt spent the first half of 2017 living in a toney D.C. townhouse owned by lobbyist Vicki Hart. Hart’s husband, Steven Hart, works for the D.C. lobbying firm […]