Edited on July 7 to provide additional information. I will be on vacation until July 14 or so but will update this article, including video clips from the July 5 council meeting. Publication of this piece on July 6 coincides with a companion article, also opinion,...
I’ve included extracts from Oklahoma City Council meetings before but they’ve focused upon particular hot-topic issues when I have. This article is different — it’s more akin to the theme, “a day in the life” of city council. While...
The days since mid-January 2011 have been both comical and bizarre, Orwellian scary and spring-shower refreshing, all at the same time. Consider, if you will, the following: The Skut Farkus Tea Party Affair. “Scut Farkus! What a rotten name! There he stood,...
… ran a brilliant campaign. [break in the recording] A candidate is the voters — they want quality positions, not on fear, and smear, and manipulation, and innuendo. I am asking, I am asking those corporate and plutocratic interests, a very, a small number of...
Originally posted March 27; updated March 30 to add a campaign video from Dr. Shadid and each party’s ads in the March 29 Oklahoma Gazette; updated April 4 to link to other bloggers’ posts which I’ve found supporting either candidate. If you’ve...
