Okie Notes
Thursday Links
- Tulsa World: Picher buyout lawsuit grows to 270 plaintiffs
- Tulsa World: Candidate filing period expected to set a record
- Tulsa World: Symposium’s keynote talk to focus on 1921 Race Riot
- OK Gazette: Survey of Oklahoma City residents finds that nearly 70 percent support urban chickens
- OK Gazette: Was the Oklahoma state seal stolen, or just the true story?
Wednesday Links
- The Norman Transcript: Norman School Board approves cuts due to budget shortfall
- The Norman Transcript: Indian Cultural Center work may halt due to unapproved $43 million bond
- Tulsa World: Tulsa could challenge state over right to privatize tax collections
- Urban Tulsa Weekly: New website helps low-income families seeking quicker access to affordable housing
- Tulsa World : Bill to loosen death penalty procedures, restrict Indigent Defense System representation sent to Henry
- The Journal Record: Tax credit for wind energy industry restored by Oklahoma lawmakers
- The Journal Record: Fate of senior programs still in doubt
- Data Watch: Oklahoma driving record fee now highest in nation
Thursday Links
- The Norman Transcript: Higher fines, fees proposed to save jobs
- NewsOK: Horrific abuse marked last three years of Aja Johnson’s life; DHS failed to act on reports
- Tulsa World: Teacher merit pay passes a day after it was rejected
- The Associated Press: Okla.
Wednesday Links
- Tulsa World: Firm seeking to build “Christians-only” prison in Oklahoma
- CapitolBeatOK: Charter school expansion legislation passes House
- The Associated Press: Okla. Legislature OKs reduction in wireless tax
- Tulsa World: Override of abortion bill veto completed
- Tulsa World: USDA report finds many abuses at Oklahoma puppy mills
- Tulsa World: Voter registration deadlines are near
- Tulsa World: House veto override puts health care opt-out bill on ballot
- NewsOK: Education reform bill stumbles in Oklahoma House; Kern worried about selling out to Obama and the UN
- NewsOK: Appeals court overturns death penalty for Oklahoma convict
- Tulsa World: DHS closes Tulsa child-care home
- The Journal Record: Rethinking downtown housing
- Brittany Novotny: The way forward in Oklahoma
- .Politics: Text of new abortion reporting questionnaire
- This Land Press: Growing up gay in the Oral Roberts family
Tuesday Links
- The Norman Transcript: Schools still plan layoffs, despite lower cuts
- Red Dirt Report: OpenBooks website expansion passes House
- NewsOK: 360 Oklahoma City teachers notified that they could lose their jobs
- NewsOK: Group urges lawmakers to let Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry’s abortion veto stand
- NewsOK: Oklahoma tattooing: How the ‘Miami Ink’ effect has changed the culture
- NewsOK: Oklahoma House falls 1 vote short on immediate insurance fee; delay will cost state more than $50M
- OKC Central: Why This Tax Credit Halt Could Destroy Some Developers
- OK Policy Blog: Why we should recognize the ‘public service’ of state and local workers
- Mickey’s Musings: Keating Wrong in Blaming Income Tax For Oklahoma’s Woes
Monday Links
- The Norman Transcript: Pro-choice activists to speak out at capitol rally
- NewsOK: Budget cuts may close Shawnee juvenile detention center
- NewsOK: Chicken issue divides Oklahoma City residents, council members
- Okie Funk: Extremism Check
- Tulsa World: Bill would hide birth dates of public employees while state sells same information for everyone else
- BatesLine: Chamber-led cabal chokes off downtown development
Friday Extra
- ROUTES: Undocumented immigrant OU student trying to set good example
- Tulsa World: Senate fails to override governor’s veto of anti-health care legislation
- The Edmond Sun: Legislative Scorecard: how they voted
- NewsOK: Tulsa’s Dfest on hiatus for 2010
- OK Policy Blog: Initial thoughts on the FY11 budget agreement
Friday Links
- The Norman Transcript: CART bus riders speak their minds at public forum
- NewsOK: Oklahoma legislators, governor reach $6.7 billion budget deal
- Tulsa World: Officials pleased budget cuts aren’t worse
- Tulsa World: House fails to override veto of open carry bill
- CapitolBeatOK: House passes legislation to keep non-violent parents out of prison
- FOI Oklahoma: Tax credit records should be open
- .Politics: Oklahoma FY 2011 budget agreement visualized
- A Downtown ontheRange: Decision on downtown OKC demolitions postponed
Thursday Links
- The Austin Chronicle: Oklahoma director Mark Potts on his suburban comedy ‘Simmons on Vinyl’
- NewsOK: Gov. Henry approves clemency for death row inmate
- The Norman Transcript: Downtown parking lot could go from free to paid, city says
- Tulsa World: Budget agreement left unsettled
- ROUTES: McVeigh’s Capture a Defining Moment for Small Town
- The Journal Record: Oklahoma City to launch Bike Share Program
- OK Gazette: Oklahoma City and Choctaw Nation at odds over water rights to local lake
- A Downtown ontheRange: Appeal against demolishing of downtown buildings tomorrow
- OKC Central: National Trust for Historic Preservation Weighs in on SandRidge Demolition
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