One of the items to be considered at this week’s meeting of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will focus on the state’s Open Records Act and claims of violations of open meetings. The agenda for the Thursday morning meeting includes consideration, discussion, a report of the Commission staff and possible vote on the compliance or …
Feds critical of Southwest Airlines over Christmas cancellations
Southwest Airlines is under fire from the U.S. Transportation Department after cancelling thousands of flights over the Christmas weekend. Passengers faced delay after delay at airports across the U.S., prompting the DOT to issue a rare public statement according to Just the News. Travelers at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport encountered the same …
Attacks on nation’s power grids on the increase
Back in the “day”, an attack on the power system meant someone had been shooting at electrical line insulators on a rural county road. These days, it’s someone shooting up transformer stations and it’s growing worse, raising questions whether it might be an organized terrorism effort. Here’s how The Hill reported the most recent …
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** The National Weather Service has warned that a “reinforcing shot” of cold air from Canada could cause more snowfall across the Great Plains and Midwest this week, and the eastern half of the country would remain in a deep freeze. In Erie County — which includes Buffalo, N.Y. — the death toll jumped to …
ERCOT passes power demand test in cold spell
After its historic failure in the 2021 winter storm, the Texas power grid held up during this most recent Siberian blast that brought record low temperatures to the region. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, better known as ERCOT, held up to electricity demands reported the Austin American-Statesman. Click here for Austin American-Statesman
Abandoned railway bridge to gain new life as pedestrian bridge in OKC
Oklahoma City intends to convert an abandoned railway bridge over the Oklahoma River into a pedestrian bridge. The $1.3 million budgeted under a 2017 bond package approved by voters will go toward the bridge that once allowed Frisco, Burlington Northern as well as Santa Fe trains to pass over the river. It was originally …
How they stood on the $1.7 trillion spending bill created by Democrats
A list of “naughty” and “nice” for Christmas—it’s what was drawn up by Congressional observers. Depending on what you considered to be “naughty” or “nice” Oklahoma members of congress were split in their stands on the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that funded hundreds of millions of dollars in various energy-related projects for …
Air Force cargo jet damaged runway at Stillwater airport
An Air Force cargo jet that landed without permission at the Stillwater airport in Oklahoma left damage to the regional airport runway. Officials say the plane carried the U.S. Air Force Academy women’s basketball team when it landed last Sunday before a Tuesday game at Oklahoma State University. The C-17 Globemaster is 45 tons …
Sen. Jim Inhofe leaves as “Legacy of Aviation” as he prepares to leave office
As Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe prepares to leave Congress after more than 28 years as a Senator, his office has released a list of his accomplishments. One such lengthy list is called a “Legacy of Aviation,” which details his efforts to help the aviation industry. A pilot with over 11,000 flight hours, his office …
Kansas Governor says pipeline tax exemption “a mistake”
Kansas Gov.Laura Kelly has jumped onto the bandwagon for the state to reconsider the property tax exemption it gave to the Keystone pipeline—the one that leaked an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a a creek near Washington, Kansas. “I thought we should have done that a long time ago,” she told the …