2012-02-15T03:56:28-06:00 urn:uuid:e54cb530-4651-4515-9bd2-0e3663cc9e05 By Kris Steele urn:uuid:3211800-1-21012-2680767 2012-02-14T00:54:55-06:00

<p>As most other states struggle to maintain the status quo, Oklahoma is on the rise as a destination to do business and raise a family. Our state added more than 40,000 jobs in the past year, the economy is growing and unemployment remains ...</p>

urn:uuid:3211800-1-21012-2679491 2012-02-12T00:10:59-06:00

<p>Gov. Mary Fallin’s State of the State contained few surprises. The tobacco ban, however, came as a total shock to many legislators and state agency heads. “It was a surprise,” the governor told state press association members this week at ...</p>

By Theodore J. King urn:uuid:3211800-1-2612-2666192 2012-02-09T00:54:55-06:00

<p>The Jan. 29 editorial “The high cost of tobacco” claimed that tobacco use costs Oklahomans a lot of money, but it did not disclose the fact that tobacco use produces a lot of money for Oklahomans, which — in the interest of being fair — ...</p>

urn:uuid:3211800-1-2212-2648964 2012-02-05T00:10:59-06:00

<p>From her quarantined hospital room on the third floor of Ellison Hall, seven-year-old Alesha Timmons Moring could often see her father, Boyce, as he headed into his office inside OU’s Evans Hall each day. They would exchange waves. ...</p>

By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters urn:uuid:3211800-1-2112-2644462 2012-02-02T00:54:55-06:00

<p>Nothing about Earth’s history is static or unchanging. That’s particularly true of climate, and thereon hangs more than one interesting tale, including recent news of a scientific advance in understanding how past climate has changed....</p>

By Mitchel Olszak urn:uuid:3211800-1-13012-2637594 2012-01-31T00:54:55-06:00

<p>As a journalist and editor, I receive a lot of requests for help....</p>

urn:uuid:3211800-1-11912-2593747 2012-01-29T00:54:54-06:00

<p>PAOLI — The meandering Washita River that first crosses below my Heartland Flyer passenger rail car south of here actually has water in it on this sunny December morning. Rains in western Oklahoma replenished the stream that eventually ...</p>

urn:uuid:3211800-1-12612-2620801 2012-01-27T00:54:55-06:00

<p>By Bill Huntington For The Transcript For many years the announcer at the Indianapolis Speedway made an announcement at the end of the race day. Paraphrasing, it went, “Ladies and gentlemen, you are entering the most dangerous place on ...</p>

By Norman H. Hammon urn:uuid:3211800-1-12512-2617016 2012-01-27T00:10:59-06:00

<p>Recent opinion pieces have expressed a simple theme, an incredibly simple theme, that the Occupy Movement is all about envy…nothing more…just envy....</p>

By Shirley Ramsey urn:uuid:3211800-1-12412-2613120 2012-01-26T00:54:55-06:00

<p>During the 1920s, when the stock market failed and many financial institutions closed, cautious souls hid money in mattresses, flour sacks and shoeboxes hidden under the bed. Again during the Depression, grandparents commonly kept cash in ...</p>