News
Rachel Pollock
Sarah Weddington, who successfully represented Jane Roe in Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court abortion case, remembers the day in 1973 she received the Court's 7-2 decision via telegram. "In s...
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: politics
OKC lawyer recalls historic Roe vs. Wade victory
News
Rachel Pollock
Sarah Weddington, who successfully represented Jane Roe in Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court abortion case, remembers the day in 1973 she received the Court's 7-2 decision via telegram. "In s...
Oklahomans travel to Texas to buy hard-core porn
News
Scott Cooper
Oklahoma has some of the strongest obscenity laws in the country, which may be why a place like DW's Video in Gainesville, Texas, has more Oklahoman than Texan license plates in the parking lot. ...
Oklahoma attorney general's office moves to new home
News
Scott Cooper
At the state attorney general's office, moving from their cramped office at the state Capitol to a newly remodeled two-story building across the street has meant big changes. "It's nice because...
Oklahoma Speaker of the House pushes ethics bill
News
Scott Cooper
Amid alleged unethical conduct involving campaign fund-raising, Oklahoma Speaker of the House Lance Cargill is now pushing through an ethics reform bill, and all sides are taking a wait-and-see approa...
Carson bows out of 2nd Congressional District Race via Facebook
It's open season for Rep. Dan Boren's House seat
News
Alex Ewald
Former Rep. Brad Carson posted on Facebook that he would not be looking to reclaim the 2nd Congressional District in 2012.
'The new normal'
With an ongoing budget shortfall, the state Department of Education zeroed out funding for National Board Certified Teachers
News
Clifton Adcock
It took dozens of hours of videotaping class sessions, more than 60 pages worth of writing and more than two years for Meredith Wronowski, a science teacher at Oklahoma City’s Capitol Hill High School, to become a National Board Certified Teacher.
Oklahoma City implements mandatory watering program
Thirteen additional communities affected, effective immediately
News
Gazette staff
Due to poor water pressure, the City of Oklahoma City has declared a mandatory odd/even water rotation program, effective immediately.
Regressive progressives
Letters to the Editor
Mickey McVay
Rob Bennett (Letters, “Ignorance isn’t bliss,” June 29) finds fault with Oklahoma Gazette for publishing my views on various subjects. Like many liberals, he does not bother to check the facts,
Labor pains
Letters to the Editor
Glen Garcia
Anyone who knows the history of the labor and Progressive movements in this country, especially during the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, knows that the Jewish community was deeply involved in liberal, progressive causes in this country, right through to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
