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hobby lobby, mardel, okc, oru
I used to work for the guy saving Oral Roberts University
Talk to Action has a great article up highlighting the role that Mart Green is playing in wresting control of Oral Roberts University away from its founding family. He’s given $70 million, and he’s using his leverage to completely redo the way things are done at ORU.
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okc, okc-zoo
My favorite animal at the OKC Zoo
07.10.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe mighty T-Rex! Which would make me Uncle T-Rex. Though he was calling me Mister Uncle Chutney. Well, yet another identity crisis…
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okc, oklahoma-city, oklahoma-city-bombing
Twelve years since the OKC bombing
Tomorrow will be the twelfth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. One hundred and sixty-eight people died that day.
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9/11, April-19, okc, ze-frank
9/11 survivors: Something to look forward to now (from an OKC native)
In a recent comment to the “But April 19” re-post, CP links us to this Ze Frank vidcast. A view asked Brooklyn-based Ze where he was on 9/11, and Ze tells it all.
I was just a few miles away from the Murrah building the morning of April 19, and that next year I moved […] -
fire, home, okc, oklahoma-city, trolley
Things I learned in OKC last week
01.02.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsMy house in Atlanta would be worth about half if a tornado moved it into OKC untouched.
The new downtown trolley only costs a quarter (a dime for seniors) one way.
The cute eighty-year-old trolley driver is under the impression that telling us that the big New Years party downtown will have “no alcohols” is a selling […]
