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...topping the charts? Well, how about a balding Oklahoma country singer whose idols include James Taylor and John Wayne, who prances across stage like a cross between Mick Jagger and Ferris Bueller, swinging from rope ladders and smashing his guitar, and who brings 40-year-olds to tears with his existential hymns about accepting life's incidental malice? Rock may be moribund, but Garth Brooks sure is thriving...
Even as the Supreme Court was approving California's term limits last week, voters in Oklahoma drastically curbed the powers of their elected representatives. By a vote of 56% to 44%, Oklahomans backed a ballot initiative that would require a three-fourths legislative majority for all laws that raise revenue, excluding property taxes. Bills falling short of that majority would have to be approved by popular vote at the next regular election, virtually ensuring that future tax hikes will be few and far between...
...price slide has been a roundhouse punch to the big energy states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico, still struggling to climb back from the earlier debacle. Scores of wildcatters, who find most of the domestic crude and who went after gas when the market fell apart, have folded in the past 18 months...
...Oklahoma. Trees are made of wood...
...Oklahoma, Oklahoma. There, I said ittwice...