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Keystone Pipeline Route Affects Eight Oklahoma Counties

TransCanada, a Canadian company, is planning to run their Keystone XL pipeline across eight of Oklahoma’s counties: Atoka Bryan Coal Creek Hughes Lincoln Okfuskee Seminole Citizens of Oklahoma are gearing up to Read More »

Rally for protection of OKC city employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation

LGBT Advocates Denounce Attack on Municipal Employment Protections

February 24, 2012 – Tulsa, Oklahoma – Today leaders from prominent equality groups joined together in condemning proposed legislation that would strike down nondiscrimination policies for municipal employees that include classes not Read More »

Dr. Ed Shadid being sworn in as member of Oklahoma City Council on 4/12/11. A few months later he proposed changing the city personnel policy to include "sexual orientation".

House bill would overturn all local laws that protect LGBT municipal employees

Action alert from The Equality Network: Urgent! Bigoted State Rep. Mike Reynold (the same guy who tried to reinstate DADT for the Oklahoma National Guard) has another bill introduced, that will strike Read More »

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Rep. John Sullivan (OK-1) apologizes for remark about killing Senators

Talking Points Memo reports: Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) sent TPM a public apology Thursday after we obtained audio of the five-term Republican telling constituents at a town hall this week that he’d Read More »

Barricades block Capitol steps behind protest in October 2011

Legislation would let state sell unneeded buildings to fund maintainance of others

It looks like someone might finally have a plan to do something about our crumbling State Capitol. Press release from House of Representatives: Lawmakers Vote to Address State Building Maintenance OKLAHOMA CITY Read More »

“Monumental” more Mental than Monument… by Mark Burkett

Although I’m certainly old enough to remember, I never really followed the career of former teen sitcom star KIRK CAMERON enough to know if he was ever the Justin Bieber of his day, some twenty years ago. I do know that, sometime after leaving the “Growing Pains” show, Cameron starred in the original “Left Behind”

BREAKING: Personhood Act dead in OK state legislature

From a press release issued moments ago: Speaker comments on personhood bill House Speaker Kris Steele today issued the following statement on Senate Bill 1433, the personhood bill: “The House Republican Caucus voted today not to hear the personhood bill on the House floor. This decision was not made unilaterally, but as a caucus collectively.

ALEC protested in OKC during reception hosted by Gov. Fallin

The American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, is a “nonpartisan” organization that works to have “pro-business” legislation passed in state legislatures. Yet somehow ALEC legislation keeps seeming to restrict voting by Democratic-leaning citizens, limit reproductive rights, and generally curtail or eliminate other progressive policies. So, of course, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and other state

Senate Committee Rejects Amendment to Require Drug Tests for Legislators

This press release is from the office of Rep. Mike Shelton: OKLAHOMA CITY (March 27, 2012) Some lawmakers have no qualms subjecting to drug tests citizens who receive taxpayer dollars, but they are apparently unwilling to submit themselves to the same indignity. HB2388 by Senator David Holt, and Rep. Guy Liebmann, both Republicans from Oklahoma

Obama & Keystone XL

By Earl Hatley I was [s]orry I could not be in Cushing [on Thursday] as I had planned… I don’t hate our President. In fact I defended him by chastising the fact that our Governor and other elected officials choose not to meet his plane. Last time Air Force 1 landed a tinker was for

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