Over the past several weeks, Oklahoma City residents have heard numerous proposals for MAPS 4, three of which involve sports arenas in some form or fashion: a new State Fair coliseum, a new outdoor soccer/lacrosse stadium and upgrades to the Chesapeake Energy Arena, like adding Thunder-themed bidets to the toilets or something. It makes me think we are not too far from the situation imagined in the comic above. Coincidentally, a kid won $3 million in a Fortnite tournament a couple of weeks ago, so maybe the idea of OKC’s Joystick Stadium is not too far-fetched once we reach a MAPS 7 sales-tax extension vote.
We do love our sports here in Oklahoma, sometimes to a fault. Dollars aren’t infinite, so these things quickly become a “one or the other” situation, and often the more fun, shiny proposals win out over the more boring (but necessary) ideas. I don’t know what the right answer is as far as what should or shouldn’t be funded through the next MAPS at this point. I want it all, really. It’s probably a good thing I’m not on the City Council for exactly this reason.
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Sam Presti blows up the OKC Thunder as we know it
It’s official: College costs an arm and a leg
Oklahoma humidity: Turn around, don’t drown … in the air
Happy Father’s Day! Now help him with housework
OKC ‘Sweatpant Bandit’ taking advantage of cool temps
Opioid trial could cause tears for Johnson & Johnson
Oklahoma’s Waterworld: Dangerous, deadly, destructive
Ransomware attackers unaware of OKCPS finances
Time for Boomer and Sooner to shotgun some beers
Measles breaks out as comeback story of the year
Rumble seeks Thunder solutions at bottom of a bottle
Easter bunny encouraging camouflage eggs
Things go off the rails at the Oklahoma Capitol
A flood of news from Norman
The Bradford Pear needs to tone it down
Spring is for the opportunities, not the birds
Snakes to green beer: St. Patrick’s Day makes no sense
‘Save the Egg,’ or else how will the aliens get home?
New Gun restaurant has great name, but not for reason you think
Influx of youth begs important OKC City Council debate
5 weeks later: How is your New Year’s resolution going?
Here we go again: Tom Brady in his ninth Super Bowl
21st century art opportunities for OKCPS students
Bacon takes the ’10-year challenge’
If Mike Stoops watched Bedlam…
False flag fears epitomize extreme views in America
Ironically, whooping cranes have view of OKC growth
Value of Walmart eye test debated with SQ 793
ABLE Commission preps for new alcohol laws, pandemonium
Toad in the hole: Mushroom has long week
OKC’s modern society is mural society
Uneasy riders: Critics blame Boren for … OU?
Football season is heating up in Oklahoma
Animal Crackers freed from cage, sent to belly
Bon Appetit flabbergasted by Nonesuch in OKC
QAnon: Your latest online political conspiracy theories
Election robocalls keep robot employment high
Oklahoma health care community clowning around
What was the Board of Health smoking?
Buffalo Wild Wings hacker missed delicious opportunity
