Background Summary On December 8th, 2009 voters passed MAPS 3, a seven year one-cent sales tax to raise $777 million to pay for a convention center, a world class park, a downtown transit system, four senior wellness center, river and fairground improvements and trails and sidewalks. The convention center was, by far, the least popular [...]

The Growth Ponzi Scheme (This article is available at no charge for non-commercial reprinting. Please credit Strong Towns and link back to our site at www.strongtowns.org. You may also consider making a donation to support the Strong Towns movement.) We often forget that the American pattern of suburban development is an experiment, one that has [...]

Real estate transactions involving the “Vitagraph Property” at 123 S. Hudson have resulted in adverse consequences for the Oklahoma City taxpayer and raise many questions which deserve being fully vetted. With the City scheduled to buy enormous amounts of property in the immediate vicinity as part of the MAPS-3 project, any real estate transaction which [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY – As summer begins, officials in central Oklahoma will be closely monitoring air quality to try and maintain compliance with the Clean Air Act. Hot temperatures, calm winds and sunshine with no cloud cover are the ingredients for an ozone alert day in which citizens are asked to do their part to keep [...]