This is an excerpt of an article originally published by Oklahoma Roundup on Daily Kos. My friends are nice people. I am nice people, and I am their friend too. My friends do the same stuff that nice folk in the rest of the country do. They work hard, they play hard. (Read more…)

Is anyone surprised here that Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett favors the owners’ position when it comes to the ongoing NBA dispute? The players, according to Cornett, just have to realize that “the economics have changed.” Hear that, Kevin Durant? (Read more…) Obviously, Cornett is not known as an egalitarian mayor, but let’s not forget

  Occupy OKC and the overall “occupy movement” has the attention of the local corporate power structure here judging from the sustained, mocking criticism by its public relations branch, The Oklahoman editorial page. Last Wednesday, the newspaper’s editorial page called the movement’s protesters “idiots.” On Monday, it referred to t-shirt slogans superficially connected to the

Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello’s use of anti-worker political rhetoric and his independent, anti-union and anti-public employee website, Parity in Oklahoma, raises the question whether an elected official can essentially work against the historical and constitutional mandates of a state office. Costello referred to public employees as “feral hogs” in a recent speech, which has