News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma City Council will consider at its Nov. 15 meeting whether to add “sexual orientation” to the nondiscrimination policy for city employees, after the topic was tabled during its Oct. 25 meeting.
Wednesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: politics
Delayed reaction
A measure to amend the city’s nondiscrimination policy will be revisited at the Nov. 15 council meeting.
News
Clifton Adcock
Isn't it ironic
Fans lose in lockout
Commentary
Jonathan Willner
There is no question that the arrival of the Thunder has been a boon to basketball fans in Oklahoma. Having wrangled roughly $180 million in subsidies out of the city and state, we find the main beneficiaries of this largess at odds with each other.
GOP candidate Childers wins Senate District 43 special election
Takes 60-percent vote in victory over Meador.
News
Clifton Adcock
Republican candidate Greg Childers defeated his Democratic rival Tuesday night in a special election for Senate District 43.
Death to Elmo?
A Tuttle legislator plans to phase out funding for public television.
News
Clifton Adcock
An effort is under way at the state Capitol to shut down funding for the state’s public television network, the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority.
‘Business as usual’
The pending trial of current and former legislators is heightening awareness of political gamesmanship.
News
Clifton Adcock
The testimony presented at the preliminary hearing of state Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, and former Oklahoma City Democratic Sen. Debbe Leftwich, provided more than enough evidence, according to a judge, to send the two to stand trial on bribery charges.
Deep water
Regional disputes over water rights lead to state and federal lawsuits.
News
Clifton Adcock
The battle pitting the state and Oklahoma City against two American Indian tribes and a number of southeastern Oklahoma residents might soon take an unprecedented turn in state legal history.
Enough, already!
Letters to the Editor
Tom Furlong
The Dems see a single woman with a baby and give her a government stipend.
Time for full disclosure
Commentary
Bill Bleakley
Last Saturday was the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision permitting unlimited spending by individuals, corporations and labor unions to conduct independent political campaign activities.
Alternate route
After a recent denial for a federal grant, officials look to other subsidies for the city’s intermodal transit hub.
News
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.
