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		<title>Workers' comp manipulations</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-07-13T18:13:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-13T18:13:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[The state supreme court has overruled a law passed that forebade injured workers from bringing their own doctor before or workers' comp judge, even though the employer got to bring their own lawyer.<br>I love this quote from Mike Seney, VP of the State Chamber, a pro-corporate group.<br><br>He complained about “doctors who are hired guns and give a higher rating than what is appropriate.”<br><br>And I'm sure the employers' doctor NEVER gives lower ratings than appropriate.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Mayor Idiot</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-07-12T15:15:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-12T15:15:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[I don't need to add anything to Purcell's words. He expresses his ignorance nicely.<br><br>&nbsp;”The park is for citizens. Having a prairie dog town there is just not compatible for people using it for recreation uses,“ Purcell said.<br><br>Umm. Every town has parks. Lawton has other parks. Very few towns have a park that features a prairie dog town. Without us prairie dogs, Elmer Thomas is just another field. <br>]]></content>
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		<title>It makes me Sicko</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-07-05T16:26:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-05T16:26:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[In another sad commentary on Lawton's pitiful theaters, yet another movie that everyone in America is talking about, Sicko, is denied to our denizens. Perhaps we don't need to watch this movie because we benefit so nicely from the services of four institutions that have done so admirably. We have Reynolds Army Hospital (see Walter Reed for further details) the Lawton Indian Hospital, Southwestern (a private hospital, currently downsizing like nobody' business) and Memorial (the public hospital and, oddly, the best of the lot).<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Of rain and rust</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-06-15T22:16:41Z</updated>
		<published>2007-06-15T21:53:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[The only thing missing from the unveiling debacle of the 50-year-old Belvedere from the Tulsa Time Capsule was Geraldo Rivera. Too bad the body of Al Capone didn't float out. The Tulsans finally had their much overhyped car resurrection and the result is worthy of "Tales from the Crypt," the episode where grandpa keep wandering out of the grave with increasing symptoms of decomposition. And from the looks of things, the microfilm that was supposed to contain all those names of 1957 Oklahomans guessing Tulsa's population in 2007 is nonexistant. Instead there are just a few postcards with guesses (I'll bet most of them overshot the 300-some-thousand reality. All that rust could have come from just the last few days of inundation our state has suffered. A month of rain reveals the woefully poor drainage of our town. But on the bright side, that was yet another awesome full rainbow looking back to the east from the westside Thursday evening.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Extreme ingratitude?</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-05-04T16:13:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-05-04T16:13:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[You know we prairie dogs have our ears to the ground. Word has it that after all that effort in the Lawton Extreme Home Makeover, certain individuals were not too happy with the finished product and demanded certain modifications to the handicapped accessible appliances to make them more accessible to the non-handicapped. Hmmm.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>So McDonald's really isn't Starbucks</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-04-26T23:04:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-04-26T23:04:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[That's what I found out after waiting the mandatory 30 minutes in the drive-thru at the Cache Road McDonald's. They had been advertising that they would put your creme and sugar in the coffee for you. But when I got to the front of the line (what exactly do they do in there?) I reminded the employee I'd asked for three Splendas. Well, I was handed a stirrer and three Splendas. Oh well. Many say that the McDonald's at the EZ Go on Gore and 67th is much worse. I was even told that a customer went to the drive-thru at 6:30 a.m. (long after it should have opened) and got no answer. He peeked inside to see folks hurredly putting their aprons on and starting up. So that got me to thinking, what is the worst fast-food location in Lawton?<br>]]></content>
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		<title>No Imus in the Morning?</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-04-14T06:34:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-04-14T06:34:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[So, Imus lost his gig on radio and with MSNBC. I wish we got MSNBC like everyone else in America so that we could see what we're missing.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>New sign</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-04-04T23:07:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-04-04T23:07:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Have you noticed the new sign at the site of the old "Wolf Creek Town Center" on 82nd and Quanah Parker? It advertises 600,000 sq. ft. That's big enough for a Target.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Sales tax failed, I wonder why</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-04-04T22:48:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-04-04T22:48:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[And we prairie dogs don't even get a vote. I would guess that councilmembers are pretty much steaming right now that they don't have stacks of cash to spend after the defeat of the three-eighths sales tax. No doubt they will blame the ignorant, uninformed voters who dared vote against a tax instead of looking in the mirror and pointing at their prairie dog-murdering, animal license-mongering selves.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>No charges, huh?</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-03-21T22:27:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-03-21T22:27:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[So, they say on Channel 7 that the DA won't press charges on the gasification of our burrows because the law says only those who actually do the poisoning can be charged and it would be unfair to charge the killers and not those who gave orders. In the immortal words of Dickens, "If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass."<br>On the bright side, we are starting to recover. A walk in the park is not the walk in the graveyard it was two weeks ago, but it also isn't the walk in the active prairie dog town it was a month ago.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Whither goest the Big 12 basketball tourney?</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-03-10T16:40:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-03-10T16:40:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[It comes as no surprise that no local carrier has the Big 12 basketball tourney. It is carried in OKC by KOCB, but no one locally picked it up. Thanks again Drewry's.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>In memorium</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-02-28T23:40:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-28T23:40:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[In memorium to sanity among city officials.<br>In memorium to anything unique about Lawton<br>In memorium to thousands of prairie dogs, being sacrificed so that little brats can have one more place to tromp across while munching on cotton candy during a two-bit art show.<br>They are even now poisoning us, closing the holes up over our heads, trying to create massive tombs.<br>I predict more of us will survive than they think, but some of us will doubtless die, along with one of the only spot of tranquility near downtown.<br>While their at it, why don't they go and shoot the birds at Lake Helen?<br>It's ironic that city officials are decrying the possibility that someone may step on our holes and break their leg. Like they even care about the thousands of potholes in which Lawtonians break their axles.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Constitution's screeditorial</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-02-15T22:04:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-15T22:04:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[OK, so the Constitution is now guilty of speciesism. In a move tantamount to suggesting Mount Scott be moved out of the way to give us a better view to the north, the powers that be decided to pen an editorial (Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007) suggesting we be disinhabited at Elmer Thomas Park and moved to the Refuge. This comes just two weeks after Elmo (my next-den neighbor) had his annual front-page prognostication as to the chances of an early spring. I would like to know what percentage of joggers and families who choose to walk our trails do so partially to get a glimpse of prairie wildlife. My guess would be more than half. (probably more than read the paper, but that's another issue.) But this part took the cake.<br>"<font size=""><span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; What we don’t need is a lawsuit against the citizens after a prairie dog bites someone or someone gets hurt in a burrow."<br><br>Oh pulease. When was the last time we bit ANYONE??? We are becoming the equivalent of the Geico cavemen. <br>Seriously, this is the same idiot mentality that led to downtown being bulldozed for the world's most boring shopping mall. Let's take everything unique about Lawton and destroy it so we'll have room for a skating rink in the Southern Plains. <br><br>Get real!<br>The Constitution certainly won't<br><br></span></font>]]></content>
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		<title>The worst restaurant in Lawton</title>
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			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-02-03T00:31:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-02-03T00:31:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would say Bianco's is the worst restaurant in Oklahoma, but I think the Friendship Inn in Altus would give it a run for its money. Bianco's is a culinary joke of epic proportions. Were I to go to the commissary and buy no-name brand spaghetti and pour cold Ragu over it, the result would taste better than what is served at Bianco's. I have no doubt the primary utensil in the kitchen is a can opener. The oil used for the pasta is definitely not olive, and tastes somewhat like Wesson corn oil. A friend said she thought the "Italian" sausage was really ground patty-type sausage. It is a bit of a novelty, walking into a place that has obviously not changed at all since 1952, when Oklahomans no doubt had to be eased into "Italian" foods such as lasagna, spaghetti and pizza (Pizza, of course is from New York, not Italy). But I do believe our palates have become somewhat refined since 1952 to appreciate romano and mozzerella cheeses and a variety of pastas. But not so the yokels who subject themselves to this trough. It makes Luigi's seem like Mario Batali's. You almost want to get down on your knees and thank the powers that be that you get two slices of tomato with your clump of iceberg lettuce in your salad bowl. In summation Bianco's is the culinary equivalent of Gigli, a restaurant you need to visit simply out of morbid curiosity.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Lawton new reality competition capital?</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-31T15:33:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-31T15:33:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[So I guess we are beholden to comment on Lauren Nelson's crowning as Miss Oklahoma. What strikes me is that we've had quite a tear in the reality competition realm. First, Jennifer Berry, with close ties to Lawton wins the first Miss America Pageant on CMT, a network set to revive the ailing beauty queen dramady by turning it into something of a reality show. Then Grady Brewer wins ESPN's reality boxing playoff, The Contender. And now a bona fide Lawtonian is Miss America. Andy Warhol said that everyone would gets 15 minutes of fame in the new media culture. And it seems small cities get to share in the moment of fame as well. <br>BTW, the top five in Miss America were Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Does anybody know why Miss Minnesota and Miss Vermont even bother to come?<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Looks like we have a winner</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-20T21:21:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-20T21:21:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Looks like we have a winner.<br>June wrote:<br>
								.5 inches/ blowing/ not sticking/ just trouble promised.  This is Oklahoma.  Next snowfall.  April 1st.<br>You win three freshly harvested nuts. Please come to Elmer Thomas Park to collect. I'll set them in the dusting of snow.<br><img src="http://prairie.onpointwebdesign.com/images/16234-15494/no_snow.jpg"><br>In other words, "blah blah blah blah blah, we were wrong."<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Really wet snow?</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-19T22:01:48Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-19T21:59:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[It's 9 p.m. and all I see falling from the sky is rain. Was it for naught that I hoarded all these nuts in my burrow? The half inch guess is looking pretty good.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Guess the snowfall</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-17T18:03:42Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-17T17:31:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[KSWO is saying 5-8 inches over the weekend<br>Gary England says 5-10<br>National Weather Service out of Norman says 4-8<br>National Weather Service out of Lubbock says 6-12<br>I say 3 inches<br>What say you?<br>]]></content>
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		<title>Where are the scrapers?</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-17T17:22:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-17T17:22:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Five days after the ice storm major arterials (Gore, Cache, Sheridan) are pretty much clear, but neighborhood streets are still inundated. I haven't seen the roads being scraped in the last couple of days, so I can imagine there is some opportunity for heavy machinery to scrape at least some neighborhood streets. Mid-Atlantic state cities commonly scrape neighborhood streets after the crews are done with the big highways. Is there any doubt but that LPS would have been in school if there had been neighborhood street scraping? Especially since there is a disaster declaration and no doubt will be another one for this weekend. At this rate, kids will be going to school in July.<br>]]></content>
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		<title>1.99 gas</title>
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		<author>
			<name>Sheridan</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-17T17:21:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-17T17:21:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Looks like the Fina/Hess station at the corner of Sheridan and Lee has gas for 1.99. Not the 1.85 they have in OKC, but could this be an indication that one gas station is not controlled by the Stripes/EZ Go cartel?<br>]]></content>
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