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Clifton Adcock
A dimly lit warehouse in southwest Oklahoma City is reminiscent of the closing scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” in which the Ark of the Covenant is boxed away and tucked among a never-ending trove of government secrets.
Wednesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: clifton adcock
Defense spending
Uncle Sam hosts garage sales, featuring surplus military items.
News
Clifton Adcock
A dimly lit warehouse in southwest Oklahoma City is reminiscent of the closing scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” in which the Ark of the Covenant is boxed away and tucked among a never-ending trove of government secrets.
Arrested development
The state Ethics Commission declines to proceed with proposed changes to city election laws.
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Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission declined at its special Jan. 12 meeting to send to the Legislature proposed changes to the laws governing local elections and campaign finance disclosure.
Civil discord
Disagreement between two city entities leads to construction delays for a Project 180 park.
News
Clifton Adcock
They say you can’t fight city hall — but perhaps that doesn’t apply if city hall is fighting city hall.
Alternate route
After a recent denial for a federal grant, officials look to other subsidies for the city’s intermodal transit hub.
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Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City officials are looking for other ways to fund improvements to the city’s planned intermodal transit hub after failing to win a federal grant.
Core issues
Comments in a Core to Shore study rankle some on the MAPS 3 streetcar panel.
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Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City’s 6-year-old plan to develop land between downtown and the Oklahoma River, the Core to Shore plan, is still relevant — it just needs a little tweaking, according to a recent review of it.
The gap trap
OKC budget could face a nearly $19 million gap by 2017.
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Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City could face an $18.7 million budget gap within the next five years, the City Council learned during its first budget workshop of the year.
Making the grade
State education officials plan to employ a letter-grade system for assessing schools.
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Clifton Adcock
A strategy to give Oklahoma public schools and school districts letter grades hopefully will be “transformative” to the state’s education system, state Superintendent Janet Barresi said.
Next Stage
Could the playful nature of Stage Center be well-suited for a children’s museum?
News
Clifton Adcock
The best neutral term to describe the design of downtown Oklahoma City’s Stage Center is “unique.” The building tends to elicit extreme responses.
Lawn games
Plans for a downtown park redesign are amended with hopes of satisfying detractors.
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Clifton Adcock
Over the next few weeks the Oklahoma City Council will consider a redesign of a historic downtown park that has produced internal conflict at City Hall.
Drug-testing for dollars
A flurry of legislative proposals requires drug screening for public assistance.
News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma Legislature is considering a number of bills this session to require drug-testing for applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
