GIS Day at the Oklahoma Capitol on Wednesday
(UPDATE below) Dozens of federal, state, tribal and local agencies will show off the latest in GIS projects and mapping on Wednesday, March 2, on several floors of the Capitol Rotunda in Oklahoma City. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All told, more than 50 organizations will be at the Capitol [...]
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Oklahoma City Council election–here comes the money
On Friday, fellow reporter John Estus and I wrote an article regarding campaign financing for the Oklahoma City Council primary election on Tuesday. Check out the comments on that article. There are several people upset not to know where the money comes from. And though I usually don’t voice an opinion on things I write about, I think they are rightly upset.
I thought I could do something to allow people to check out the public documents we used to …
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Saturday sneak peak: Oklahoma state agency revolving fund balances
I’ll have more on this in Sunday’s edition of The Oklahoman, but here’s a sneak peak at the more than $1.2 billion in what’s called revolving funds for Oklahoma state agencies. This is the money from fees or other sources that isn’t strictly part of the annual budget appropriations from the state’s general fund. Estimates [...]
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Sen. Tom Coburn Among Senate’s Most Conservative in 2010
Not exactly stop-the-presses news. Maybe more surprising is that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, ranked only 9th in the latest rankings by the National Journal magazine _ behind eight senators who tied for 1st _ and that Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, didn’t make the top ten.
None of Oklahoma’s House members made the National Journal’s Top 10 list of the most conservative for 2010.
The magazine evaluates votes in three categories for its rankings _ social, economic and foreign.
Here are …
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Oklahoma City Council elections less than a week away — get ready to vote
It’s less than week until Oklahoma City voters will go to the polls to decide if three city council members should keep their jobs and who will replace outgoing Councilman Sam Bowman.
According to political consultants the races have been unusually intense — a lot of money and a lot campaigning, just ask anybody in wards 6 or 8 about the amount of candidate mail they’ve received.
Voter turnout in city council races is historically low. A few hundred votes …
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Oklahoma City Council and pretty flowers
The Oklahoma City Council approved nearly $2 million for to rehab the Ed Lycan Conservatory at Will Rogers Park in northwest Oklahoma City.
The conservatory houses the largest cacti and succulent collection in Oklahoma. The conservatory was originally erected in Douglass Park in 1924 and relocated to its current location in the Will Rogers Gardens in 1936.
The rehab project will mainly be structure work, along with adding new heating, electrical services and rebuilding some of the plant display beds.
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James Lankford to Hold Town Hall Meetings on Thursday
U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, has scheduled two town hall meetings for Thursday.
The first is at 2 p.m. at Ralph Ellison Library, 2000 NE 23rd St. in Oklahoma City.
The second is at 7:30 p.m. at the Downtown Community Center, 28 East Main St., in Edmond.
At 9 a.m. that day, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, of which Lankford is a member, will hold a hearing on the next transportation bill at the Oklahoma City Community …
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Census 2010: Wrapping up the first week of Oklahoma data
The U.S. Census Bureau last week released the first batch of Oklahoma data from the 2010 Census. Here’s a list of what we covered in print and online: Oklahoma Census: State Hispanic population grows 85 percent since 2000 Population growth in suburbs, declines in rural areas will have political ramifications New metro boom towns include [...]
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House Transportation Committee to Hold Hearing at OCCC
The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which is holding field hearings in cities across the country, has scheduled a Feb. 24 hearing at Oklahoma City Community College.
The hearing, entitled, “Improving and Reforming our Nation’s Surface Transportation Programs,” is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
Freshman Rep. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, serves on the committee.…
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ABA Rates Nominee as Qualified but Coburn says Nomination Dead
The American Bar Association, which rates federal judicial nominees as either Well Qualified, Qualified or Not Qualified has given Oklahoma U.S. District Court nominee Arvo Mikkanen a unanimous rating of qualified, according to a posting on the ABA website. Mikkanen, a longtime federal prosecutor in Oklahoma City, was nominated by President Obama for a judgeship in the Northern District, based in Tulsa.
However, Jim Myers of the Tulsa World reports today that Sen. Tom Coburn has declared the nomination dead.…
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