An Oklahoma state school board has approved “the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional,” ABC News reported on Monday, June 5, 2023 (read story here). “The Statewide Virt[...]
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January 20th, 2023 - 7:33 pm § in Business
Oklahoma pork plant fired worker, then called cops who killed him
Guymon, Oklahoma, is a town in the dusty Oklahoma panhandle. It was a dying town until the pork plant came in the 1990s. In 2014, an Oklahoma newspaper gushed (here), “On the northeast corner of town, cradled by a cluster of dilapidated trailer homes, sits a business that many credit for start[...]
Oklahoma house calls
Excerpted from E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes, by James Patterson and Matt Everson (get it here), at p. 246: “We get a lot of calls to deal with emergency situations in the rural parts of Oklahoma, where a lot of people live off the grid, without TV or ru[...]
February 25th, 2022 - 12:15 am § in Environment, Politics
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Imhofe to retire
Sen. Jim Imhofe (R-OK), 87, who was re-elected to a 5th term in 2020, is expected to announce this weekend he will resign at the end of this year so his successor can be elected this coming November (see story here). Imhofe previously had said he wouldn’t run for reelection in 2026. He plans t[...]
October 28th, 2021 - 11:05 pm § in Law and Courts
Oklahoma botches 3rd consecutive execution
States using lethal injection to execute killers struggle to get execution drugs because pharmaceutical companies won’t provide them. So prison officials get creative. They go to compounding pharmacies that create the drugs for them. It doesn’t always work as it should. In fact it often [...]
October 16th, 2021 - 11:39 am § in Misc.
Oklahoma’s robber cops
They rob people in Canadian County, Oklahoma. The police do. They prey on itinerant motorists passing through on Interstate 40. For example, they robbed Nang Thai and Weichuan Liu, of New Mexico, of $141,500 in April 2021. The pair were en route to closing a cash deal to buy 10 acres of farmland. Th[...]
April 24th, 2021 - 4:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Woman has Oklahoma felony record for unreturned VHS tape
A Texas woman recently discovered she has a felony record — one she didn’t know about — from when she lived in Oklahoma. For a rented VHS tape that wasn’t returned. That state’s criminal records say she “feloniously embezzled” the VHS tape, the NBC affiliat[...]
July 10th, 2020 - 3:06 am § in America
Oklahoma tribes win big Supreme Court victory
State must recognize historic tribal boundaries The Court begins, “On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise” to the Five Tribes of land in Oklahoma in exchange for giving up their ancestral lands in Georgia and Florida. The Court ruled today this land is still “Indian cou[...]
November 5th, 2017 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
This Oklahoma City cop should be fired.
He arrested and handcuffed a woman on a bike who had done nothing wrong because he didn’t like the way she handed her ID to him. In his report, he described her ID card as a “weapon.” Read about a police officer’s astoundingly bad judgment here.[...]
May 21st, 2016 - 10:58 pm § in Politics
Oklahoma Republicans panhandle for Obamacare money
Oklahoma’s Republican politicians hate Obamacare almost as much as they hate abortion. But now that their Republican-austerity budget is blowing up in their faces, look who’s begging for Obamacare money: “Despite bitter resistance in Oklahoma for years to President Barack Obama’s[...]