Features
Phil Bacharach
Aside from 2012 meaning the end of the world (a big shout-out to those kooky Mayans), the new year provides an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start anew.
Saturday 25 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Mary Fallin
Be it resolved ...
Celebrated Oklahomans make their New Year’s resolutions … and share them with you!
Features
Phil Bacharach
Aside from 2012 meaning the end of the world (a big shout-out to those kooky Mayans), the new year provides an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start anew.
Falling down
CFN
Gazette staff
Reality knows a good metaphor when it sees one. The state Capitol building is falling apart.
End academic segregation
Commentary
Mike Brake
The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended race-based school segregation recognized that it was unconstitutional to jam black kids into inadequate schools.
Oil vey!
CFN
Gazette staff
It’s not as if President Obama and Oklahoma’s Republican lawmakers have been exactly chummy, but the White House’s rejection of a proposed oil pipeline connecting Canada to Texas has state politicians forgetting everything they might have learned in Anger Management 101.
There’s something about Mary
CFN
Gazette staff
Governing magazine digs our gov. A Feb. 10 story assessing the performance of rookie governors gave Gov. Mary Fallin high marks for maneuvering the tricky split between mainstream Republicans and tea party supporters.
Oklahoma is not OK
Letters to the Editor
D.W. Tiffee
In support of Republican plans to eliminate the state income tax, the deranged Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs claims that “states with no income tax and with the lowest overall tax burdens consistently outperform the high-tax states, the national average and Oklahoma.” (Commentary, “Point: Phase out state personal income tax,” Feb. 1, Oklahoma Gazette).
In the Red
Saturday’s Red Tie Night marks 20 years of partying with a purpose.
Features
Mia Cantu
Red Tie Night
6 p.m. Saturday
Cox Convention Center
1 Myriad Gardens
okaidscarefund.com
$500-$20,000
Like a prayer
CFN
Gazette staff
A bill recently passed by the state House would allow churches to speak to you about getting your soul to heaven before they blow your ass to hell. Authored by Rep. Mike Ritze, House Bill 2988 seeks to give church officials legal authority to smoke your candy-heathen ass in a place of worship if they deem it necessary.
Drip, drip, drip
The slow-going battle for water rights in southeast Oklahoma now heads to the federal court system.
News
Clifton Adcock
In the latest move over a fight about water, a lawsuit to determine water rights in southeast Oklahoma was removed from state court when the U.S. Department of Justice filed action March 12 to bring the case to federal court.
A Sooner snubbing?
In his first presidential visit to Oklahoma, Barack Obama delivered a speech on energy to a crowd largely devoid of state officials.
News
Clifton Adcock
A palpable energy ran through the crowd at the Ripley High School parking lot, despite the cold and rainy weather that hung overhead.
It was March 22, and several hundred people were waiting for a bus to take them to a muddy location in the Payne County countryside that soon would play host to the leader of the free world.
