Does Tulsa-OKC rivalry help or get in the way?
10 Commandments monument may soon be placed at Capitol
More budget cuts ‘very possible’ for state agencies
Oklahoma health care premiums rising almost 3 times faster than wages
Ugandan girl comes to OKC for life-saving surgery
OKC council approves rail transit hub study
1 percent of all future OKC construction costs to be used for public art
Cherokee Nation blocked from joining poultry pollution case

No buyouts for Treece, KS residents just over the border from Picher
ODOT hosting public meeting on high-speed rail plans tonight
Stillwater counting on 2010 Census to raise profile
Cornett will present MAPS 3 proposal within 2 weeks
An open letter to the man in the red truck
OKC rallies air opposing views on health care
Indian tribes finding little success with Supreme Court

Is downtown OKC ready for chaos of construction?
Capitol Hill High School gets off needs improvement list
Tough economy putting strain on Oklahoma police
Mercury Marine union approves concessions; Stillwater losing jobs
Norman sees biggest jump in tax revenue

From NewsOK:
Oklahoma City’s latest sales tax report was gloomy, but city officials see signs that the economy may be turning around.
August general fund sales tax collections, which reflect taxes paid by consumers in late June and the first half of July, were $14.3 million — or 8.5 percent — below target and 5.5 percent below collections a year ago.
Although the numbers are down, City Manager Jim Couch said there is an encouraging sign. Last month, sales tax was 9.7 percent below the previous year. The 5.5 percent decrease this month …

From NewsOK:
Three years ago Bricktown’s property owners and merchants were barely on speaking terms, and the hostility was palpable.
Gunshots already had fired — granted, they were at the hands of suspected gang members getting too testy on a hot summer night. But the police presence that flooded the district after that violent summer of 2006 might well have been keeping the peace among property owners and merchants as much as anything else.
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What a difference a couple of years make.
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