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Resourceful Posts ontheRange
- "A City of Neighborhoods" (Neighborhood guide)
- "Pullin' a Tulsa"
- A-Alley: A distinct vibe emerges
- Alison Oshel responds re: downtown retail
- Building demolition NOW rampant
- Buyer's Remorse in OKC (The "Elite Retail" Issue)
- CCS: Best and worst
- CCS: Convention size never-ending arms race
- CCS: Fixing the Cox (it can be done!)
- CCS: Reality
- CCS: The Cox
- CCS: Trend to incorporate Amtrak
- Civic Center steps: Oh, the view from here
- Core2Shore: Time to scrap the plans
- Dear Full Circle: Please Come Downtown!
- Downtown development: OKC v. Tulsa
- Is your (city council) vote worth $409,000?
- Lights on North Broadway
- MAPS context: NW 9th Street revitalization
- Meetup photos: Bricktown
- North Dallas: Shopping and riding the rails
- North OKC Urban Development Run-down
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- OCURA: What a stellar track record
- OKC Streetcar-opoly
- Our Last Remnants of Main Street
- Paseo Pics
- Q&A with Steve Mason
- SandRidge Drinking Game: "Drinking Our Building Away!"
- Tenth Street Rising
- Top Ten Reasons to Vote Yes on Dec. 8th
- Tulsa: Pearls of urban wisdom
- Video: A post-MAPS OKC
- Walkable OKC: Throw out demographic assumptions
- Welcome to St. Louis (comparisons abound!)
- What MAPS vote infers about north v. south
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- Your typical OKC enthusiast..who's not always enthused. My mission is simple, just to agitate and provoke movers and shakers into considering the urban ramifications of public policy in Central Oklahoma.
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That slogan is about as clever as was, "Oklahoma is O.K.!"
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