The White House isn’t the only place where a past domestic abuse has led to a resignation. Governor Mary Fallin was handed the resignation this week of Preston Doerflinger after a published report indicating he had choked his wife during a five in 2012. Jill Doerflinger filed for divorce less than a year after the …
Oklahoma Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones has a message for State Attorney General Mike Hunter who won’t release a state audit of the public trust that handled the buyout of homes at the Tar Creek Superfund site…..Let the Audit Speak for Itself. It’s the message delivered by Jones in a news release this week in …
Less than a month after Public Service Company presented alternative transmission power lines from the largest wind farm in the U.S. it is proposing, a setback occurred this week. An Administrative Law Judge at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission recommended against preapproval for the Wind Catcher project to be located in the Panhandle. Her decision left …
At last word, Step Up Oklahoma’s proposed $581.4 million tax hike, including increases on the wind industry and oil and gas had not won approval in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. A vote was put on hold late Monday afternoon with the measure still short of the needed votes. At last word, House Bill …
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has set Feb. 28 as the date to hear the appeal of Tulsa-based Citizen Energy II in its fight to drill some wells in the city limits of Mustang. The hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. as the energy firm fights a temporary injunction granted the city of Mustang by a …
The mutual fund investment company, the Vanguard Group apparently likes what it sees in Devon Energy in Oklahoma City. A recent Devon Energy filing made with the Securities Exchange Commission revealed the Vanguard Group has acquired more shares and now owns 8.56% of shares in the energy company. The Pennsylvania firm has 726,630 shares in …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and the White House are left wondering what will be the fate of EPA deputy nominee Andrew Wheeler, the man chosen to be Scott Pruitt’s No. 2. In light of the White House decision recently to withdraw the nomination of Kathleen Harnett White to a top EPA job, Wheeler’s supporters …
Okay, okay, maybe the company is a little out of Oklahoma’s reach. But anytime a whiskey manufacturer decides to become part of the renewable energy industry, we ought to be interested, right? Anyone say whiskey? How about the company that makes Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Jack Daniels and Cola, Gentleman Jack, Old Forester, Canadian Mist …
Whenever EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt opens his mouth and talks about climate change and the impact of carbon emissions, his critics react quickly. Such was the case when Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General gave an interview to a TV reporter in Las Vegas. The New York Times carried the observations of reporter Lisa Friedman …
Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones apparently has a different opinion about the way contracts were handled by the Trust created to handle the relocation of homes and businesses at the Tar Creek Superfund site. He thinks there might have been criminal wrongdoing. But the Tulsa World reported over the weekend that a federal …
