All Posts Tagged With: "vote"

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Lyrics: Continued

Although not really surprising, Tuesday’s election results were encouraging on one hand and perplexing and frustrating on the other hand. This morning, I’ll focus on the positive local results and later I’ll pontificate on the less encouraging national results.

Oklahoma City voted decisively in favor “of becoming a Big League City,” as the proponents declared. By a 62 to 38 margin, voters approved the proposal to extend a 1-cent sales tax through June 2010 to fund major improvements to the Ford Center to bring it up to “NBA standards” as well as to build a new NBA practice facility.

The hope is that such improvements will lure an NBA franchise here, the most likely of which is the Seattle Supersonics who are currently owned by an Oklahoma City-based investor group and who are presently locked in a bitter battle with the city of Seattle to abandon their current lease and move to Oklahoma City. Continued