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Tag Archives: oklahoma city
Oklahoma City’s water policies are recklessly inadequate.
The announced proposals to meet the drought crisis in Oklahoma City are recklessly inadequate. The proposal to raise rates by percent increases is fine up to a point. We’re in trouble if a large number of small users increase their … Continue reading
Oklahoma City Nanny State Alert!
Oklahoma City is asking the state legislature to lower the height requirements before the city can write code violations and get a court order for a contractor to mow a property, charging the homeowner with the bill, from the present … Continue reading
New Crosstown causing traffic gridlock downtown.
It’s not my imagination. Downtown on the Range is talking about it. With pictures. The gridlock, that is, on Western Avenue from the exits/on-ramps of the new I-40 Crosstown Freeway going north into downtown. My best advice is — stay … Continue reading
Be Careful What You Ask For, Okie City
As I predicted in my blog post of May 2nd, OKC has the most amazingly stoopid transportation planning, OKC Code Enforcement was out bright and early this AM writing me up for the dastardly code infraction of not having street … Continue reading
Leaving people behind for the wolves to devour.
Comes now Rep. George Faught, who tells us that helping its employees make charitable contributions is not a “core state function.” I think that may mean that it does not reward friends of the Republican party, and it could possibly … Continue reading
A Tale of Warr Acres and Oklahoma City.
We (the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House) recently helped an elderly woman get her natural gas hooked up. She had paid the bill, but it had been off so long that a plumbing inspection with a pressure test was required. … Continue reading
600 people crowd Ed Shadid forum tonight.
The Grand Ballroom of the Oklahoma City Marriott hotel was packed with standing room only when the community forum hosted by City Councilman Ed Shadid began earlier this evening. he told me afterwards the room was set for 500, with … Continue reading
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Comrades! Let us praise Oklahoma City and County government!
Comrades! Commissars! Members of the State Central Committee for the Suppression of Free Enterprise and the Encouragement of Misery Among the People! Let us salute the government of Oklahoma City and County, which in a bold move, struck down a … Continue reading
OKC is a dangerous place for pedestrians.
The Brand Oklahoma City boys sure won’t like this news. But it is a fact: Oklahoma City is a seriously dangerous place for pedestrians. In fact, we rank #22 in the nation as a dangerous place to walk, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged ODOT, oklahoma city, peak oil, pedestrians, transportation
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Mick Making Excuses
A couple of days ago, Mayor Mick was on one of the local early news shows, making excuses about our poor local transit system. We’re too spread out, he says, we like our cars, there isn’t enough money to do … Continue reading
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Tagged bus system, harlan hentges, mick cornet, oklahoma city
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