Today, almost a quarter of the Oklahoma City metro reads Oklahoma Gazette for fiercely local news and entertainment. But when it was first founded in 1979, it was a small monthly neighborhood publication only really covering historic preservation and neighborhood issues. In 1982, Randy Splaingard became the publication’s first full-time journalist after working nearly a […]
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Youth voters
Several local civic groups teamed up to register voters at every Oklahoma City public high school next week. Part of a larger partnership between Generation Citizen and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS), the effort aims to empower young people to advocate for change. “We’re a national civics education organization,” said Amy Curran, executive director of […]
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Scissortail Park Grand Opening Sept. 27-29 Scissortail Park 300 SW Seventh St.
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Chicken-Fried News: Conservative moves
Some Oklahomans are probably desensitized by all the cannabis dispensaries and advertisements that pop up everywhere, but Paul Chabot, a twice unsuccessful Republican congressional candidate, is not from here. And he just wants us to please think of the children. In a front-page story titled “Cannabis billboards irk some in state,” The Oklahoman reported that […]
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Cover: Paper cuts
The sound of folded copies of The Oklahoman slapping concrete in the pre-dawn hours was once familiar, but repeated cuts to the size, coverage, advertising and distribution have left many wondering not only if they will receive their newspaper that day but whether there soon will no longer be a daily newspaper at all. Mary […]
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Commentary: Care giving
President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided for expansion of Medicaid on a state-by-state basis, and since 2014, 37 states and the District of Columbia have approved expanding Medicaid coverage to persons making below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Newly elected Gov. Kevin Stitt, who wants to run Oklahoma like a business, […]
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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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Commentary: Taking shots
Just 10 months ago, a child in Norman was diagnosed with an entirely preventable disease, one for which a vaccine was developed 55 years ago. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the disease to be eradicated in the U.S. in 2000, but 18 years later, Oklahoma Department of Health was forced to issue a […]
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Letters to the Editor: April 5, 2017
Poll results released Feb. 7 indicate that voters oppose suspending immigration from “terror-prone” regions by a margin of 50 to 44 percent.
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Letters to the Editor: Sept. 14, 2016
Gone for good I once lived in your great city. Because of the terrible horrible Black Mass that Our Lord Jesus and His Blessed Mother will be terribly wounded and I will never come back to your city!!! Betty Gillis North Ridgeville, Ohio New car tags I have come up with my own version of […]