North - Will Rogers Gardens, Martin Nature Center, Myriad Gardens, two community pools, two community centers, a dog park, and the new Scissortail Park. For the Strong Neighborhood Initiative all three selected neighborhoods were north side. The area south of I240 while part of the Moore Public School System is very much south OKC. I have never understood why people insist on lumping it together with Moore. It's not like the City of Moore pays for any improvements to the area.

Because if it wasn't for Moore Public Schools, that area would be identical to south OKC, north of I-240.

That area is much more an extension of Moore than it is an extension of OKC.

Because if it wasn't for Moore Public Schools, that area would be identical to south OKC, north of I-240.

That area is much more an extension of Moore than it is an extension of OKC.

I agree with this. I would say the northside equivalent is pretty much all of north OKC above the Kilpatrick. Most of that is either an extension of Edmond or Deer Creek, yet is still technically considered OKC.

The fact they crosses are still displayed on the towers is laughable. Any other major cities do that? Houston and Dallas do not anymore. I believe they stopped awhile ago.
I find the crosses laughable at Christmas because a cross is associated with the death of Jesus, not his birth.

I don't think SLC is in the same breath as OKC. I think their religion is whacky but seems most Mormon conservatives are more open minded than what you describe and mention in every post possible in OKC. Plus, skiing in your backyard and a major airline hub.

Mormons hold back their people and state less so than Baptists. Interesting how Utah was the last state needed to repeal alcohol prohibition. From there the state promptly went on to repeal prohibition at the state level.

What's funny is, I think a few decades ago they all voted blue. Abortion is the issue that pushed them red, everything else since the 90's has just been fuel to the fire.

No, I rather think passing civil rights legislation signed by a Democrat president was what pushed Oklahoma red, especially for the beginning stages. Oklahoma was only a little more opened minded toward desegregation than the Southern states. Forced busing of OKC school students to enforced desegregation in the schools was a very hot issue.

The problem is how the state funds schools and everyone prizing low property taxes over proper school funding. We need leadership in this state to insist on education over right wing populist politics. Shoot, the leaders of the state can't even understand science.

That's why I was rather sorry to see State Sen. Jim Halligan not run for reelection in 2016. He had a doctors degree in chemical engineering, so legislated like he knew science.

The fact they crosses are still displayed on the towers is laughable. Any other major cities do that? Houston and Dallas do not anymore. I believe they stopped awhile ago.


I find the crosses laughable at Christmas because a cross is associated with the death of Jesus, not his birth.

I know everyone has their own views, and I respect that. The cross is a symbol of Christ and Christianity as a whole, and represents his birth, death and resurection ... year round, not just one day a year. It doesn’t bother me one bit to see private buildings lit up in that fashion, any more than it did to see a public bridge over I-40 lit up in rainbow colors.

What all this has to do with the OP question, I’m not sure.

i honestly think the crosses wouldn't look so bad if all four sides of both skyscrapers weren't crosses.

If one (or two) sides were cross and the other sides nothing (or something else), then it would not only be a rather classy move but would be much more aesthetically pleasing and less dominating than eight crosses. lol

i honestly think the crosses wouldn't look so bad if all four sides of both skyscrapers weren't crosses.

If one (or two) sides were cross and the other sides nothing (or something else), then it would not only be a rather classy move but would be much more aesthetically pleasing and less dominating than eight crosses. lol
Why would that be a classy move? And since you can only see one or two sides at a time, why more aesthetically pleasing.

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would be less dominating/offending.