Leave it to the blathering puppet of billionaires to confuse a protest against the wealth and job-destroying bank robbers of Wall Street with the wealth and job-creating genius Steve Jobs. People should be mad. Thanks to The Man on Wall Street, this country lost $17.5 trillion in wealth from 2008-9, more than the bottom 90 […]
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Woofsly Barksy The III
Since dogs shouldn’t really eat too much cheese and it’s ill advised to give them fancy alcohol, that drastically limits the amount of culture one can inject into the puppy park. Rest easy! Because now you can take in some art while your pupster drops a deuce. And this gallery is free to enter. That’s […]
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Woofsly Barksy The III
Since dogs shouldn’t really eat too much cheese and it’s ill advised to give them fancy alcohol, that drastically limits the amount of culture one can inject into the puppy park. Rest easy! Because now you can take in some art while your pupster drops a deuce. And this gallery is free to enter. That’s […]
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Woofsly Barksy The III
Since dogs shouldn’t really eat too much cheese and it’s ill advised to give them fancy alcohol, that drastically limits the amount of culture one can inject into the puppy park. Rest easy! Because now you can take in some art while your pupster drops a deuce. And this gallery is free to enter. That’s […]
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Putting people to work
The top 10 percent own 85 percent of all stocks, so the 15 percent capital gains tax benefits a large segment of wealthy taxpayers. It is just silly to argue that raising the capital gains tax back to Clintonera levels (up to 36 percent) is going to “lose much of the capital we need to […]
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Be our guest!
And this isn’t an Aubrey McClendon profile you’re likely to read in The Oklahoman. The Forbes piece, written by Christopher Helman, starts out with McClendon eating dinner at Deep Fork Grill, which McClendon co-owns, and trying to select a wine. After relaying some of Chesapeake’s current market standing and statistics about the company, the profile […]
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Oklahoman hospitality
In the late ’90s, CJR bestowed the paper the title “Worst Newspaper in America,” and Oklahoman columnists have also taken CJR to task. Now CJR is criticizing The Oke’s profile of its soon-to-be new owner, Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz, who is acquiring all of OPUBCO this month. In a Sept. 27 piece titled “How not […]
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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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Gaylord family selling The Oklahoman, OPUBCO
The newspaper made the announcement today on its website and stated that all Oklahoma Publishing Company stock will be sold to the Anschutz Corporation, which is owned by Philip Anschutz, 71, a Denver-based businessman ranked by Forbes magazine as the 37th richest person in the United States and the 124th wealthiest person on the planet […]
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In the raw, in the rough
In a July fundraiser at the Boiling Springs Golf Course for the Elk’s annual rodeo, one of the event’s volunteers with apparently questionable impulse control decided to disrobe as a portion of a putting-green challenge, The Oklahoman reported, although the female volunteer was not asked to show her birthday suit. Elks Rodeo Chairman Neal Day […]