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Oklahoma Election 2022: Do Republican legislative leaders want Stitt to lose?
Do Republican legislative leaders want so badly for Gov. Kevin Stitt to lose his bid for re-election that they're willing to accept half-measures on child mutilation in the name of "gender confirmation"? That's the question posed by a recent report by Harry Scherer in The American Conservative, "The Fight Over...
Oklahoma Senate 2022: Web links for Republican candidates for Inhofe's unexpired term
An overview of the Republican primary field to complete Jim Inhofe's unexpired term in the U. S. Senate, with links to campaign websites, FEC reports, and social media profiles.
Should conservatives celebrate OKC's big league status?
Why would any conservative celebrate regressive taxes to support billionaires who kow-tow to Chinese Communists and politically correct causes?
Charles G. Hill, Doyen of Dustbury, RIP
A memorial tribute to Charles G. Hill, Oklahoma's best-loved and most-enduring blogger, who died in September 8, 2019.
James Garner's "hometown": Denver school and Denver Corner near Norman
Actor James Garner, born James Scott Bumgarner near Norman, Oklahoma, died this weekend at the age of 86. Articles about James Garner and his brother Jack report that their parents ran a general store at Denver Corner. The area is now within the city limits of Norman, but it was...
<em>Locaciones</em> and <em>Rumble Fish</em>
On Wednesday night, my wife and I went to Circle Cinema to see a double-feature: Locaciones: Buscando a Rusty James (Locations: Looking for Rusty James") followed by Rumble Fish, the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film based on the novel by S. E. Hinton. The first film at the Circle Cinema...
Tulsa power outage: City plans, PSO 7/24/2013, 10:30 am statement
Quite a storm last night, wasn't it? We lost a few limbs, but nothing major. The '06 microburst and '07 ice storm took our most vulnerable trees. More nasty weather may be on its way Thursday night after sunset. The grappler trucks are coming for your yard debris. The City...
Ken Miller's double-dribble on spending, tax credits
Pat McGuigan takes a close look at Oklahoma State Ken Miller's apparent fiscal evolution: A question that inquiring minds -- at least this one -- seek to answer is this: Is Oklahoma State Treasurer Ken Miller "growing" (moving to the Left) in office? The question takes me back to my...
Did you feel it? 4.7 earthquake near Prague, OK, at 2:12 am
In the wee hours of this morning, a magnitude 4.7 earthquake hit Oklahoma. Epicenter was just north of the town of Prague (rhymes with plague -- seriously), about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City, and about 60 miles southwest of Tulsa. The US Geological Survey wants to know if you...
A virtual ride on the F-35
On Thursday, I drove down to Oklahoma City, to Pro-Fab, Inc., for a briefing and a short flight in a cockpit demonstrator for the new F-35 Lightning II, the Joint Strike Fighter built by Lockheed Martin Aerospace in Fort Worth, in partnership with Northrup Grumman, BAE, Pratt & Whitney, and...
Tornado outbreak expected; prepare to take cover
The National Weather Service in Tulsa is forecasting a tornado outbreak for Oklahoma tonight, May 24, 2011. Atmospheric conditions are ripe for "strong, long-track tornadoes" of the sort that hit Joplin on Sunday evening, the sort that can rip a long half-mile-wide swath across a city, the sort that...
John Wright and Owen Laughlin passed the NBA giveaway test
In two statewide primary races, the leading Republican contenders were both members of the Oklahoma Legislature in 2008. The top candidates for the GOP nominations for Lieutenant Governor and State Treasurer were on opposite sides of the 2008 expansion of the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Act to include professional sports franchises,...
WNBA for Tulsa?
There's an effort underway to try to land a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) franchise for Tulsa. The president of the league is in Tulsa today for a reception to which BOK Center premium seat holders have been invited, with a message from Mayor Kathy Taylor urging them to turn...
Local link dump, 2008/10/29
There is so much happening and so little time to comment, so here are a few local links of interest: Bubbaworld has questions about the $135 million in unspent funds from past City of Tulsa sales taxes and bond issues: In what bank(s) are these surplus funds deposited? Are the...
Busted visit to Bartlesville
Saturday, after attending the three public hours of a five-hour City Council meeting on whether to move city offices to One Technology Center, I called my wife and suggested we head up to Woolaroc for the remainder of the afternoon. I picked up my son from a sleepover, and, after...
New frontier (for us anyway)
My oldest son just turned ten, and to celebrate, I took him for an overnight trip to Oklahoma City. Saturday morning, we drove most of the way down the old highway, 66, and part of the way down some very old highway. I got off the turnpike at Kellyville. Just...
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