Letters to the Editor
J. Dougherty
If I'm having to pay additional taxes for a longer period of time, that's new taxes. Now comes the newest chum from OKC officials. "Chum" is defined by Webster's as "chopped fish or other matter throw...

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Porter Davis
Imposing a new MAPS tax on OKC residents is economic insanity. Sensible people don't build expensive, unnecessary projects at the beginning of a depression. But our City Council is in fantasyland. ...

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Wayne Coyne
My mother, who died in 2004, was aware of the things poor families needed. So throughout the year she would look out for useful, "poor family things" at garage sales and thrift stores. I remember her ...

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Tom McDaniel
Oklahoma City said "yes" to a dream when its citizens voted in favor of a set of initiatives that forever changed the face of our city 16 years ago. We said "yes" to a new arena, the Ford Center, that...

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Planners of the first MAPS sales tax projects launched new pride in our city's appearance, development and national reputation. The problem is that sales taxes always fall most heavily upon middle-inc...

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Jeff Bezdek
The MAPS 3 proposal provides a substantive, responsible first step toward a comprehensive regional transit system. If there is any one element in MAPS that is truly and defiantly "citizen initiated," ...

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With all due respect to the honorable mayor, he needs to get better writers to help him with his letters: These sweeping, Obama-esque proclamations of unity and togetherness are empty and tired. U...

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Jon Mooneyham
In response to Wanda Jo Stapleton's letter "Questioning Progress" (Nov. 18) " yes, Wanda Jo, yes it is. It may not be the progress you envisioned in the past, but those railway battles have been fough...

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Marion Hutchison
The Union Station debate brought rail transit to the forefront of public and political awareness. While the matter involved saving a rail yard, of greater importance was changing our mindset and joini...

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Melissa Hunt
The American Institute of Architects, Central Oklahoma is a professional organization committed to serving the community and the profession by promoting excellence in, and public awareness of, the bui...