Man, I would much rather deal with 100 degree temps than hurricanes. No way no how. But OK weather is not great. But not a single thing anyone can do about it, so no sense in complaining.
Man, I would much rather deal with 100 degree temps than hurricanes. No way no how. But OK weather is not great. But not a single thing anyone can do about it, so no sense in complaining.
Agree, our weather is our weather. Our climate is moderate. Let's make the best of what we have to offer, move ahead and invest in our future.
OKC has housing that will eventually be absorbed over time. We're in a position to attract those companies situated in markets like Atlanta, Dallas & Chicago that are overcrowded. Not saying anything to slight Dallas but markets can poise more of a challenge on themselves when their corporate & population growth exceeds its capacity. Right now, Dallas can't build roads & infrastructure fast enough to keep up with its growth.
I'm still of the mindset that once the upper park, CC, CC hotel, boulevard, and streetcar are up and running, the city and the chamber of commerce need to remake the promo video from a few years ago and buy air time all over the country in certain target markets. Really drive home Oklahoma City and how it's on the up and up. I'd go after the DFW, a number of cities in Ohio, and maybe some California cities. Dallas would be a good metro area to target because it's only a few hours away and like Laramie said, they just can't keep up with the growth. The chamber of commerce could also use the promo video to show businesses around the country that are looking to relocate or open offices what OKC is about.
Stuff like this isn't good. This state is now the prison capital of the world.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018.html
Oklahoma needs to get off the top of lists like this.
^ just think of the jobs that brings. ....
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
People who don't like what's going on need to run for legislator. You don't have to be a Republican with religious right views. My rep was pro-choice, said Ten Commandments monument did not belong at the State Capitol, talked against the oil companies for causing earthquakes and in many other cases opposing Republican bills. Yet, he received no opponents for reelection in 2016. He wants justice reform. Rather than run again, he decided he could act more for justice reform by running for district attorney.
It's too late this year to run for anything, so the next best thing to do is make sure you don't vote for candidates with a history of voting against justice reform. I wouldn't be surprised if they have also voted against education.
The good news today is that there were no 100 degree temps today...
Speaking of weather in OKC, I saw this remark about OKC in a new "Best Cities" list done by Renosance Consultancy highlighted by Bloomberg news this morn:
"You’ll be hearing a lot more about Oklahoma City very soon.
No, the Thunder hasn’t brought in Steph Curry, all but guaranteeing an NBA title. It’s more powerful than that: OKC citizens, long a prosperous group living in a state capital that is Top 25 in our deep Place category is amidst a torrent of doubling down on their great weather, low commute time and safety.
....."
FYI Had OKC in the #32 spot for big cities, ahead of cities like Kansas City, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, St.Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati.
It gets really freaking hot in Oklahoma about two months out of the year. As in "stay inside and curse the sun" hot.
It gets really cold in Oklahoma about one month out of the year. Fortunately that one month is spread out over three months, a few days here and a few days there. When we have 50 degree days in the middle of January, we can't say our winters are that bad.
We have really bad storms 4 or 5 times a year during the spring. Those last for about 1 day each.
The rest of the time, the weather in Oklahoma is wonderful.
Well it really comes down to personal preferences. For me, OKC is too windy in the winter and spring. I wouldn’t call Oklahoma’s climate wonderful. It’s occasionally tolerable.
This is a great post that I think unfortunately got lost in the noise in this thread. Also, I especially appreciated the part about OSSM. That was such an ambitious project when it was first introduced, but I’m guessing it lost whatever champions it had in the legislature. There were grand plans to grow it into essentially a college campus, but these days it still has the same small footprint in a large, mostly underutilized site.
There are smart kids all over this state, and I’m afraid many of them either never truly flourish due to circumstances, or their only real high-level academic support doesn’t happen until college. In college there are of course lots of other smart kids, and also of course these rural Oklahoma kids may land in a place other than Oklahoma entirely when they attend a university. We need to nurture them as early as possible, and giving them a head start on college in a challenging, college-like environment is a great way to do this.
Would love to see more resources directed at this institution.
IMO, what really doomed the OSSM was the ridiculous limitation it had on admission, that ONE student from each county would be admitted per year.
Hard to get traction from your high population area (you know, OKC) when it is limited to just 6 students from its metro area out of a population nearly 1.5 million has less admission per capita than Podunk OK which might not even have a gifted Science student at all.
I think a better approach should have been "AT LEAST" one student from each county in the state, with limits for large counties set by the board based on funding, etc. ...
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
During Boren's time there they raised several Billion. But the legislature continues to cut funding and the harder they pedal, the steeper the legislature makes their climb. This is also part of the strategy of the Scholars that was questioned earlier.... to help attract research dollars which is needed to keep acquiring top notch faculty and support.
This is a relatively poor state. You can't keep going back to the same donors over and over. Sooner or later you dry the well.
Really, I think how warm the winters are in a given state has a more positive impact on a state's desirability to live there than the negative impact of how hot it gets during the summer. I doubt not nearly as many people would be moving to Arizona, if its winters were as cold as Oklahoma's.
One reason why it's easier to end up in prison in Oklahoma is because of the lower value threshold when theft becomes a felony. It's lower than in most states. It seems women like to shoplift to the point it becomes a felony, which helps explain why Oklahoma is number 1 for imprisonment of women.
So Oklahomans by nature must be some of the most crooked in the world? Incarceration must not work as we keep imprisoning more and more. We must be naturally awful lawless people. No wonder we need really lax gun laws. I am sure low educational achievements means we are stupid as well as crooked. And poor, because we are lazy.
Correct, incarceration doesn't work, in fact, it dramatically increases the chances that somebody will need to be incarcerated again, and also dramatically increases the chances that the children of the incarcerated will become incarcerated. You go in with some cursory knowledge of crime, and you come out with a Masters degree in crime and new criminal connections.
Being a relatively poor state, the financial resources poured in to our prisons is really shooting us in the foot now, and shooting us in the foot in the future.
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