by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Two icons of the Oklahoma City theater scene will mark a notable benchmark in the next few weeks. For the 42nd time in theatrical careers spanning five decades each, Jonathan Beck Reed and Donald L. Jordan are working together. Their collaborations began in the late 1970s in “My Three [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Editor Oklahoma leaders remain cautiously optimistic about preserving a popular insurance premium support program, designed and implemented in 2004 with bipartisan support, which benefits the working poor. On May 9, Leavitt Partners, a consultant to Oklahoma’s Health Care Authority (HCA), encouraged state officials to extend Insure Oklahoma, despite the Obama [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan This is a review and analysis of a story about power – Federal power, Tribal power, State power and the power of economic interests, including lawyers, to impact all of the above, and more. In western Oklahoma, tension and drama seem perpetually to surround the governance of the Cheyenne & Arapaho [...]
by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher OKLAHOMA CITY – Moise Brutus, now a college student in Florida, lost both legs and part of his left arm in a 2010 motorcycle accident. He endured months of frustration when his recovery was supervised by what he deems Old Medicaid. Brutus, the subject of a five-minute video posted [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher No doubt, I often err. My beloved wife sometimes reminds me of her favorite among my thousands of Chinese fortune cookies: “Firm in opinion, always in the wrong.” I am but a lowly scribe, whose policy views incline to the Right – a reporter, analyst, commentator, pundit. Every now [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Throughout the evening at last week’s Devon Energy College Basketball Awards, fans gently lobbied Marcus Smart, the star player for the Oklahoma State University Cowboys, to stick around for a second season at the school in Stillwater. At the end of the evening, it was Michigan State University head [...]
by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Rodd Moesell, an Oklahoma City businessman and a Republican party volunteer without peer, remembers when there were entire counties in Oklahoma where the Grand Old Party had no real chance to win elections. Those willing to carry the party banner, once upon a time, were known not as candidates, [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher A study for the State Chamber of Commerce has concluded the Oklahoma public system of colleges and universities is both a bargain and a wise use of taxpayer resources. However, the analysis did not include a look at the number of sites, possible administrative efficiencies and other traditional concerns [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher OKLAHOMA CITY — It was 9:01 a.m. Late for the daily editorial meeting with E.L. Gaylord, publisher of The Oklahoman, I was rushed. The elevator I entered on Ninth did not stop until reaching the ground. About fourth or fifth floor, there was a slight sway in the vessel. [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Theatre OCU, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and CityRep have joined forces for a fine production of Oscar Wilde’s comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” The story is a classic adaptation of Shakespearean follies of mistaken identity, costly mendacity and pretentious social climbing. Director Lance Marsh pulls the best [...]
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