Despite making up more than 50 precent of state population, females make up around 13 percent of legislative body.
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 13, 2014
Fallin’s popularity wavers According to a recent Rasmussen poll, Governor Mary Fallin has the support of only 45 percent of likely voters. (That’s down from a high of 69 percent.) Her Democratic challenger Joe Dorman came in with 40 percent support from likely voters. That telephone survey was conducted on July 15-16. In my opinion, […]
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‘Snuffing’ out life
I get your intent, though. I’m pretty sure you’re comparing our wonderful advancements in other areas to our backward approach to abortions — we actually make the mother listen to a description of the child she and the doctor are going to kill, “even if both are unwilling.” And to do so, a transducer must […]
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‘Back to the Dark ages’
First, Mitt Romney dodged questions about a ban on contraception, but reaffirmed his commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade. Then Rick Santorum declared that states should be able to outlaw contraception! Finally, most of the Republican presidential candidates vowed to prevent Planned Parenthood from providing millions of women with health care that is mainly preventive […]
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Spurned station
The Union Station rail yard, 300 S.W. Seventh Street, Oklahoma City, was strategically located and virtually irreplaceable, an enormously valuable asset — purchased during the Bellmon administration to use as an ideal intermodal rail hub for regional rail transport. That was the situation before culprits destroyed the rail yard and removed the railroad tracks leading […]
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Spurned station
The Union Station rail yard, 300 S.W. Seventh Street, Oklahoma City, was strategically located and virtually irreplaceable, an enormously valuable asset — purchased during the Bellmon administration to use as an ideal intermodal rail hub for regional rail transport. That was the situation before culprits destroyed the rail yard and removed the railroad tracks leading […]
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Spurned station
The Union Station rail yard, 300 S.W. Seventh Street, Oklahoma City, was strategically located and virtually irreplaceable, an enormously valuable asset — purchased during the Bellmon administration to use as an ideal intermodal rail hub for regional rail transport. That was the situation before culprits destroyed the rail yard and removed the railroad tracks leading […]
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Hub flub
The Oklahoma City Council, on Sept. 13, approved submission of a grant application to the U. S. Department of Transportation for $17 million. That $17 million, coupled with sales tax from MAPS 3, money from the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, would total $26 million to fund the first […]