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Look, Steve, weve had to watch a lot of fun, weird, and boring stuff for This Week In Anime, and far be it for me to question what we get assigned but why did we watch Broken Arrow this week? Its not even anime. And its not even a RWBY-situation where folks made a cartoon where people have pointy chins. Im sorry, Jean-Karlo, but as someone who once presented a Sakura-Con panel about why Twin Peaks is anime, I cant look at that poster and tell you in good faith that it cannot be anime. Anime...

The City Sentinel April 3, 2021 By Patrick B. McGuigan The City Sentinel Endorsements The City Sentinel’s endorsement philosophy, detailed in print and online in recent years, leads the newspaper to make the best possible...

The Oklahoma State Capitol is shown in Oklahoma City. Whitney Bryen / Oklahoma Watch The Oklahoma Legislature took action on a multitude of measures recently, from the House of Representatives and the Senate. The following is a brief list of some of that legislation: • House Bill 1246 was signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt last week after it was passed out of the House and the Senate. The bill will allow Oklahomans to obtain prescriptions using Social Secu...

Oklahoman The Oklahoma-made movie "Minari" continued its strong awards season run this morning as the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced this morning. "Minari, which was filmed in Tulsa in 2019, has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, and a history-making best actor nod for Steven Yeun, who becomes the first Asian-American ever nominated for a best actor Oscar.  Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, who loosely based "Minari" on his own childhood, earned nods for best ...

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post) Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where there’s a wicked wind blowing on that upper deck. One of our favorite stops on this semi-regular weekly survey are those places where the conservative dedication to the notion that the government “closer to the people” is always preferable is revealed to be the scam that it is. Generally,...

Broken Arrow Mother Warns Parents After 8-Year-Old Daughter Takes Wrong Bus A Broken Arrow mother is warning other parents after her eight-year-old daughter took the wrong school bus home and wandered the streets alone for an hour – almost three miles from home. Adrienne Perez said her daughter was too scared to tell the bus driver she got on the wrong bus, and now, she urges other parents to talk to their kids and make sure this never happens again. Perez said her eight-year-old daughter K...

Oklahoma Contractor Again Cited for Trenching Hazards, Fined $205.5K March 12, 2021 Federal officials have cited an Oklahoma construction contractor for exposing its employees to trenching and excavation hazards, violations for which it has been cited previously. OSHA cited Cherokee Pride Construction Inc. of Sapulpa for serious violations related to excavation work. The company faces proposed penalties totaling $205,500. Inspectors arrived at a Broken Arrow ...

Mayor G.T. Bynum Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum celebrated receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds Friday morning by quoting a notable historical figure in a statement.   "If you wanna keep an eye on me don’t look behind you, don’t look to the sides, look straight up, because I’m right on top of ya - Oh yeeeeeaaah! -Randy Macho Man Savage, OR my immune system to COVID-19 after getting vaccinated this morning!" Bynum wrote on Facebook.   In a video rele...

Oklahoma’s Dispensary Licenses Fall for First Time Since Opening of Medical Cannabis Market March 12, 2021 Oklahoma’s Medical Cannabis Program: By the Numbers In 2020, Oklahoma joined states like Colorado and Illinois in posting record cannabis sales for the year. Oklahoma patients bought a whopping $830 million-plus worth of medical marijuana, more than doubling the $345 million amassed across 2019.  The boost in sales is likely due to the vast increase in Oklahomians registered for th...

The U.S. Military Is Missing Six Nuclear Weapons Fact: The longest missing nuclear weapon hasnt been seen in 71 years, and it is unlikely it will be found anytime soon. The 1996 John Woo film Broken Arrow features a quite memorable line – uttered by character actor Frank Whaley – "I dont know whats scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often theres actually a term for it." In fact, the term "Broken Arrow" does refer to the loss of a nuclear weapon and it has happened more ...