The Gadfly On The Wall
Former radio talk show host and political consultant Ron Black will become a columnist for the Oklahoma Gazette in January.
Mike Easley is getting his job back. The ABLE special agent was canned eight months ago and now, an administrative law judge has ruled he has to be put back on the job with back pay. Judge P. Kay Floyd ruled there was not enough evidence to prove the contention that Easley used a state vehicle to drive to a second job as a teacher at Bacone College in Muskogee while he was supposed to be on the ABLE clock. There's more (AP) chit-chat about Frank Keating and the 2008 presidential race. His name keeps bubbling up. We'll see if it remains so when the talk gets serious. Don't ask me: I don't know. Some inquiries about Oklahoma Political News Service, the Chris Arps blog, and whether it is still active. Arps has not responded to several emails asking about it. Since November 22nd, he's had a single post, on December 14, saying he's been on "sabbatical" and is back.
Will Bill Bateman join Terri Watkins in the auditor & inspector's office? Lots of speculation (testimony to how slow the news biz at the Capitol is these days) about where Bateman, KTOK's capitol correspondent who has resigned to take an as-yet unannounced state job, will land. Some speculate the Ag Department, others the Labor Department. Watkins has been hired by Jeff McMahan to head up a new public information office.
If, as the antis argue, guns kill people, it can be extended that pencils kill spelling and good grammar. One is as silly as the other.
Mark Nichols has resigned as president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs to join Koch Industries in Wichita as director of public affairs. It is Oklahoma's loss.
KTOK News Director Jerry Bohnen has another award for his crowded wall, this one for his series on a medical procedure performed on him.
Mike Easley is getting his job back. The ABLE special agent was canned eight months ago and now, an administrative law judge has ruled he has to be put back on the job with back pay. Judge P. Kay Floyd ruled there was not enough evidence to prove the contention that Easley used a state vehicle to drive to a second job as a teacher at Bacone College in Muskogee while he was supposed to be on the ABLE clock. There's more (AP) chit-chat about Frank Keating and the 2008 presidential race. His name keeps bubbling up. We'll see if it remains so when the talk gets serious. Don't ask me: I don't know. Some inquiries about Oklahoma Political News Service, the Chris Arps blog, and whether it is still active. Arps has not responded to several emails asking about it. Since November 22nd, he's had a single post, on December 14, saying he's been on "sabbatical" and is back.
Will Bill Bateman join Terri Watkins in the auditor & inspector's office? Lots of speculation (testimony to how slow the news biz at the Capitol is these days) about where Bateman, KTOK's capitol correspondent who has resigned to take an as-yet unannounced state job, will land. Some speculate the Ag Department, others the Labor Department. Watkins has been hired by Jeff McMahan to head up a new public information office.
If, as the antis argue, guns kill people, it can be extended that pencils kill spelling and good grammar. One is as silly as the other.
Mark Nichols has resigned as president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs to join Koch Industries in Wichita as director of public affairs. It is Oklahoma's loss.
KTOK News Director Jerry Bohnen has another award for his crowded wall, this one for his series on a medical procedure performed on him.
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