on February 3, 2008M at 1:03 am
Sometimes it’s easy to miss an event, so here’s a look back at the past week or so to help bring you up to date.
A ceremony at the Oklahoma History Center officially put the state’s new quarter in circulation. Hundreds of schoolchildren who attended were given a free coin adorned with the state’s bird, the scissor-tailed flycatcher. Oklahoma is the 46th state to have a state quarter issued, and the first to have its coin placed in circulation in 2008.
Sen. Barack Obama routed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary, regaining campaign momentum.
Oklahoma is prime recruiting territory for potential Border Patrol agents — spending $170,000 on in-state advertising last year — as federal officials work to boost the border security force to 18,000 by October 2009.
Thousands of suggestions made during meetings across the state, along with entries in a Web site or mailed or faxed in, have been winnowed down to 100, included in the book “100 Ideas — Innovation for the Second Century.”
“No Country for Old Men,” a movie about stolen cash and carnage along the Rio Grande, won best ensemble cast at the Streen Actors Guild Awards, the organization’s equivalent of best picture. The honor came one night after Joel and Ethan Coen, who made the film, won the top prize at the Directors Guild Awards.
President Bush, in his eighth and final State of the Union address, tried to reassure a country at war and in the midst of economic uncertainty. Bush also urged Congress to act quickly on a proposal that would send tax rebates to millions of Americans.
Five American soldiers were killed in an ambush near Mosul in northern Iraq when insurgents exploded a roadside bomb, then raked the survivors with gunfire. Iraqi reinforcements and U.S. troops — backed by helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles — are attempting to restore order in Mosul, where al-Qaida in Iraq’s militants have dispersed after being pushed out of Baghdad and other urban areas.
Individual tickets to the Nov. 29 Bedlam game between Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma will not be available; instead, football fans will have to buy a season ticket.
Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary, gaining the upper hand in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. Rudy Giuliani decided to withdraw from the race. In the Democratic race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the primary and John Edwards decided to withdraw.
Former President Clinton spoke at Norman about the skills and experience Hillary Rodham Clinton has “to build a better future for America.”
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a point in an effort to avert or at least soften the blow of a recession.
Local government officials expressed confidence in the future of Dell Inc.’s Oklahoma City presence after the company laid off about 200 workers as part of a companywide restructuring. Chairman Roy Williams of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, said about 10 percent of the company’s local work force was laid off at the Oklahoma City location.
Oklahoma House Speaker Lance Cargill took full responsibility for being delinquent in paying property taxes on his Harrah law office six years in a row.
The U.S. military isn’t ready for a major attack on the United States, and National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the defense job, according to an independent commission’s report. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready now than they were nearly a year ago when the commission on the National Guard and Reserves determined that 88 percent of the units were not prepared for the fight, the 400-page report states.
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