Last week, State Impact Oklahoma and the Center for Public Integrity co-published a report detailing how Oil Overlords have injected $40-million worth of pro-industry propaganda into...
Just like most Internet people, I love popping a few memberberries and enjoying good quality nostalgia. Not only does recalling the simpler, more joyous times from the past offer a needed...
We have some bittersweet news to report. After years of going solo, we are no longer alone in our coverage of the “David Stanley Leads The Way In Shady Business Practices” news beat...
As oil and banking mogul George Kaiser explained a few weeks ago, one of the main reasons Oklahoma finds itself in a seemingly endless budget crisis is that our elected officials refuse to reasonably...
Yesterday afternoon, a busload of oil and natural gas industry employees left the corporate high rises of downtown OKC to encourage lawmakers not to raise gross production taxes as part of a new...
Back in September, before Richard and Ryan Tate of Tate Publishing were indicted on various felony charges, Abby Broyles stopped by the Tate offices in Mustang to ask some questions about a...
Back in 2014, Harold Hamm, Larry Nichols, and Doug Lawler instructed the elected officials they control to lower Oklahoma’s gross production taxes on oil and gas wells to 2%, as opposed to...
Yesterday afternoon, in a rare display of logic, reason and courage, a group of 12 Oklahoman men and women stood up to our state’s overzealous fun police and acquitted Stephen Holman and...
Today I’m coming out of my TLO retirement to talk about my time at Tate Publishing. In June of 2011, I was hired at Tate Publishing. As the first ghostwriter hired by the company, I had an idea...
It looks like Fox News may need to hire a new business expert! According to a press release issued this morning by the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office, Ryan Tate and his dad Richard – the...
Tomorrow night, the hit CBS series Undercover Boss takes on beloved regional Tex-Mex chain Taco Bueno, an Okie favorite if only for the Mexi-Dips and Chips. While we won’t know which store CEO...
As we’ve long documented, the crossroads of NW 23rd and Penn is the most “entertaining” intersection in Oklahoma City. It’s not really close. Where else in the metro can you...
New Yorkers have got their cheesecake and Bostonians might have their crème pies, but they can both go take a leap off a mountain…an Arbuckle mountain, that is. I would happily pass up any other...
While big name government officials were getting busted for having underage boys in their motel rooms, everyday ham-and-eggers like you and me have been dealing with a local sex scandal of our own:...
It looks like Richardson Homes may be looking for a new tagline… and name… and president. Earlier today, reports came out that Dennis Lee, the president and kind-of-creepy spokesperson...
It looks like Tate Publishing needs to add a new button to its homepage. It should read – “I am a screwed over Filipino employee who is owed money.” According to documents we obtained...
In case you didn’t know, the Oklahoma City Ad Club held its annual Addy Awards this past Saturday in Bricktown. It’s the local ad industry’s big awards show – a glitzy, Warby...
The real Oklahoma Standard is back in the national spotlight. Last week, the owner of a restaurant in Catoosa fired 12 members of his staff via text message after they chose to participate in...
Over the past three or four years, I’ve made it my personal mission to bring back Mold-A-Rama’s machines to the Oklahoma City Zoo. Remember them? They were those gigantic retro relics...
Here’s some sad news for people who enjoy being ripped off. According to a January meeting agenda from the Oklahoma Motor Vehicle Commision, David Stanley Chevrolet is apparently being sold. I...
Last Thursday, in an article dramatically entitled “The Continuing Saga of the Downfall of Buy for Less,” we published concerns sent to us by an Ogle Mole regarding the current state of affairs...
Since the well-dramatized surprise closing of the once-indomitable Buy for Less at N.W. 23rd and Penn, it seems as though the company has been in, what appears from the outside, an absolute...
While the people of Oklahoma continue to deal with an unprecedented budget crisis, leading to drastic financial cuts to education, public safety and other essential state services, our royal...
Move over Pink Octopus. There’s another mural controversy in town. It all started yesterday morning when our friends at Yawn Doc… errr… Non Doc reported that someone painted over a...
` The guy pictured above is Scott Fisher. We made fun of him back in 2012 when he used his dad’s oil company money to buy Dippin’ Dots – the ice cream of the future if the future...