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For much of the past decade, Chuckles Comedy House has been top spot to see stand-up in the Memphis area. But since March 2020, the club has been mostly dark due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting this month, however, some of the top talent in the comedy world will be returning to the Cordova venue.  “I get so many people saying I haven’t had a laugh in a long time,” Chuckles owner Michael Ware said. “And it’s like they say, laughter is the best medicine.”  This week, Chuckles wil...

Biden’s ‘transformative’ presidency pushing $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan26/04/2021|4min President Biden’s progressive $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan stands in stark contrast to the Republicans more traditional $500 billion counteroffer. Sky News contributor Michael Ware said the Democrats plan includes unconventional investment human infrastructure such as homecare packages for the elderly. Conversely, Mr Ware said the Republicans are offering a $600 billion which takes a more t...

Apr 25, 2021 The City of Norman received 10 applications for the interim Ward 2 seat, which has been vacant twice in one year. At least two candidates applied for the second time, and two were candidates who vied for the seat during the February special election. The application window closed Friday. The seat became vacant after the death of newly-elected David Perry in August 2020, and the resignation of Matt McGarry this March. A committee will review the applications and make a nomination to...

After two vacancies in one year, nearly a dozen new and former candidates applied for the Norman City Council’s interim Ward 2 seat.  The Ward 2 carousel began after the sudden death of former Ward 2 councilmember David Perry last August. The seat was filled by a city council appointee and former Ward 2 councilmember, Joe Carter, who did not seek permanent election in the February 2021 election.  OU Russian Professor Matt McGarry won the February election with 51.34 percent of the vo...

Login Shooting death of MaKhia Bryant a tragedy no matter how you look at it23/04/2021|2min The fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant by police is “very different to Daunte Wright” but should still be treated as a tragic loss of life, according to Sky News contributor Michael Ware. “The police are obviously doing an investigation, no one’s been charged yet, that’s a much tougher case and it’s also just as heartbreaking,” he told Sky News. “This was the shooting death of...

US might have some momentum to change policing laws 23/04/2021|5min Sky News contributor Michael Ware says it might “finally be time to pass this overreaching police reform Bill” in America after the deaths of 20-year-old Daunte Wright and 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant shook the nation. “It’s been a tough week for America to absorb all of this in a such a short period of time and the reverberations from all these events that seem to be cascading will continue for some time,” he told S...

There is “an American abundance of vaccines and vaccinations” in the United States as 200 million people have received at least one dose and President Biden is trying to entice the rest of the population, says Sky News contributor Michael Ware. “President Biden, trying to herd people toward vaccinations, announced from this point on employees will not lose pay if they go and get the vaccine during working hours,” he told Sky News. Mr Ware said the government had arranged for the IRS to ...

The police reform started by Derek Chauvin’s conviction is “only just beginning” with the attorney-general announcing a civil investigation and a law limiting police power to the Senate, says Sky News contributor Michael Ware. “The country’s attorney-general announced this civil investigation by the Department of Justice into the Minneapolis police department looking for patterns of excessive force, now that’s going to be wide-ranging we’re told and it will probably take some time,...

Login Joe Biden is the fourth president to struggle with reasons to stay in Afghanistan15/04/2021|7min President Joe Biden is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan 20 years after the attack on the World Trade Centre and is “the fourth president to struggle with reasons to stay” in the conflict, according to Sky News contributor Michael Ware. “President Biden says you can’t continue this cycle, he said this war was not meant to be intergenerational, American troops have gone and fought in ...

President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September is a “key stroke” in the administration’s “broader international policy” as bigger threats to the US have emerged, according to Sky News contributor Michael Ware. “This is a key stroke in the Biden administration’s broader Middle East policy and broader international policy, the Biden administration is not breaking the May 1 deadline that was set up with the Taliban but it’s certainly stretching it to t...