More than 85 percent of the 2,367 people who responded said the city should consider MAPS 3. Many of the 2,026 people who wanted MAPS 3 also submitted ideas, and some gave multiple ideas. "I knew it ...would be very popular, but the fact that it exceeded the other ideas by such a large margin is probably a surprise," he said. "It probably shouldn't have been. We need to do a better job of providing that." "In 2008, we will kind of reopen the discussion and try to push for a decision on do we want to have a MAPS 3 and what should it look like," Mick Cornett said.
In 2019, the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON) obtained multiple-chord occultation measurements of two centaur objects: 2014 YY\(_{49}\) on 2019 January 28 and 2013 ...NL\(_{24}\) on 2019 September 4. RECON is a citizen-science telescope network designed to observe high-uncertainty occultations by outer solar system objects. Adopting circular models for the object profiles, we derive a radius \(r=16^{+2}_{-1}\)km and a geometric albedo \(p_V=0.13^{+0.015}_{-0.024}\) for 2014 YY\(_{49}\), and a radius \(r=66 ^{+5}_{-5}\)km and geometric albedo \(p_V = 0.045^{+0.006}_{-0.008}\) for 2013 NL\(_{24}\). To the precision of these measurements, no atmosphere or rings are detected for either object. The two objects measured here are among the smallest distant objects measured with the stellar occultation technique. In addition to these geometric constraints, the occultation measurements provide astrometric constraints for these two centaurs at a higher precision than has been feasible by direct imaging. To supplement the occultation results, we also present an analysis of color photometry from the Pan-STARRS surveys to constrain the rotational light curve amplitudes and spectral colors of these two centaurs. We recommend that future work focus on photometry to more deliberately constrain the objects' colors and light curve amplitudes, and on follow-on occultation efforts informed by this astrometry.
May 22--Jim Roth doesn't plan to resign his District 1 Oklahoma County Commissioner seat until the end of next week, and Gov. Brad Henry hasn't set the dates for an election to replace him. Roth said ...he hopes a short election cycle doesn't attract candidates who aren't willing to work hard. "This job requires someone that is willing to work 50 to 60 hours (a week) over the next three years," Roth said. "Watch a candidate and how hard they campaign, because that's how hard they'll work while serving."
"I would think that the city would have streets to pave and roads to repair rather than looking in my background for something," Brent Rinehart said. "I was the best city councilman that city ever ...saw." The OSBI did not launch its official investigation into Rinehart's campaign until after a February 2006 story by The Oklahoman showed Jerl Methvin and two others who gave the maximum allowed contributions to Rinehart's campaign also donated to a political action committee run by his campaign manager, Tim Pope. Pope said he used the donations on Rinehart's campaign. "They delve into things not knowing what they were looking for, and they found nothing," Rinehart said. "All these charges, all these allegations have all been politically motivated in the past."
May 18--One of three donors accused of giving excessive campaign funds to Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor this week and has agreed to cooperate in the case ...against Rinehart and his former campaign manager, prosecutors said. Rinehart, 42, and Pope, 49, are charged with money laundering, conspiracy, perjury and other counts. Drew Edmondson filed the charges, claiming Pope and Rinehart solicited excessive donations from at least three people and illegally funneled the money into Rinehart's 2004 campaign.
Brent Rinehart and his former campaign manager, Tim Pope, have yet to see the inside of a courtroom since being charged with multiple felonies related to the financing of Rinehart's 2004 campaign. ...Rinehart, 42, and Pope, 49, are charged with money laundering, conspiracy, perjury and other counts. Drew Edmondson filed the charges, claiming Pope and Rinehart solicited excessive campaign donations from at least three people and illegally funneled the money into Rinehart's campaign.
The idea, explained by Arts Commission Chairman Jim Hassenbeck, is to encourage artists to loan pieces to the city for public display. The art could later be bought either by the city or by private ...interests. City officials also could work with local businesses to buy the art and dedicate it for permanent public display, Hassenbeck said.
"I can always tell when it's a Markwell job because the complaints never stop," Pete White said. "I'm really disgusted with it. I've got two projects going in my ward right now that are just really ...being, in my opinion, grossly mismanaged. I don't know why we are giving them more work." An e-mail sent by George Storm, the city's paving and resurfacing coordinator, blames the most recent problems on poor construction of SE 45 in the early 1950s, along with "bad judgment on the part of Markwell." "As council members, when we let a contract, we don't need to be out there bossing the contractor around," Ann Simank said. "That's what I had to do to get mine finished."
"Some of their stuff out there is beautiful, but for an average person's salary, it's more than a lot of people can afford," Donna Hardridge said. "It's nice being able to get a print that you can go ...get framed and have something nice." "If you are on a small budget, you can still purchase artwork and meet the artist, which I think makes it even more special," Linda Tuma Robertson said. "I think it's a stepping stone to buying original art," Robin Thompson said. "Probably 75 percent of the public is too intimidated to walk into a gallery. I think everybody needs to collect art. It brings personality into your home."
