From The Associated Press:

A new report shows polluted stormwater, sewer overflows and a manure composting operation likely contributed to bacteria in the Oklahoma River blamed for sickening dozens of triathletes.

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality released a draft report released Wednesday that studied 12 bodies of water in the North Canadian River watershed [...] The study shows 11 of the 12 water bodies are in violation of state water standards, including the portion of the river where triathletes swam in the event May 16-17.

From The Daily Oklahoman:

Coburn said today, “Congress is about to pass another bailout of the highway trust fund because we have refused to make wise choices about transportation spending … Congress has wasted billions of dollars on low-priority projects like bike paths while bridges are in disrepair.”

On the other hand, Marilyn from Seminole comments:

It makes good sense to develop safe bike paths in the larger cities. Just a year ago we saw on the OKC tv stations that more people were biking to work when gas was $4 a gallon. So, just because it has dropped down again we should not get prepared for the inevitable?

OK Food Coop founder Bob Waldrop is tracking a bill in Congress that threatens to put small farmers out of business.

Seriously. From The Associated Press:

A student-run party business that received a $320,000 tax bill after boasting on the Internet “over a billion served” and “biggest party in the country” will now have to pay only $2,300.

Oklahoma Tax Commission auditors based the original bill on claims the group Kegheadz made on its MySpace page, but members said those claims were wildly exaggerated and intended to drum up new business.

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“I mean, how crazy was this case?” Baroi said. “I don’t know which would be considered stupid … us bragging about parties on MySpace and Facebook, or OTC using those as `evidence’ to assess $320,000 worth of taxes.”