Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 95, No. 156, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 2010 Page: 1 of 14
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Vol. 95/ No. 156
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Calendar
Creek County Democratic
Party will hold a regular meet-
ing tonight, at 6:15 p.m. for
food, 645 p.m foi meeting.
Contact Juanita, 227-5058 for
more info
Let’s Celebrate Children,
from 6 to 8 pm, Friday, April 23 at
the Sapulpa Library Annex and
Sapulpa Heritage Park. Free
Learn about programs and activi-
ties available for area children.
Sponsored by Creek County
Child Abuse Prevention Task
Force
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for Important announce-
ment about
Pre-K enrollment and
Page 14 about a
Silent Auction benefit
for a mother
with bone cancer
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Contractors tor Code Red Underground. LLC, thread conduit tor heavily insulated liber
optic lines tor Cox Communications on South Walnut Street Fiber optic lines are made
of strands of glass bundled together with the ability to delivei huye quantities ot electronic
inlormation instantaneous and simultaneous this proiect in photo is related to a plan to
link City Hall with outlying otfices and installations like the water department, police and
tire and other city government entities said David Gilliland assistant city manager
Cox Communications is constantly replacing copper adding new loops and expanding
their liber optics system that will also carry a 50mb Internet capacity in the near future,
said Alan Robertson. Cox lech suppoder out of Oklahoma City
Daily Scripture
Therefore settle it in your
hearts not to meditate before-
hand on what you will answer;
for I will give you a mouth and
wisdom which all your
adversanes will not be able
to contradict or resist
Luke 21 14-15
WASHINGTON The Commerce
Department's National telecommunications and
Inlormation Administration 1NIIA1 announced
April lb an American Recovery and
Reinvestment Xcl investment lo help bridge the
technological divide, boost economic growth,
create |ohs. and improve education and public
safety in portions ol Arkansas. Kansas.
Oklahoma, and Texas
the $2Kft million grant ss.ill increase broad
band access and adoption by binding the build-
out and dcploymcni ol more than nxii miles ol a
new tibei optic network in '5 communities The
proiect intends to directly connect more than 70
community anchor institutions to the broadband
network, including city halls, police stations, lire
stations, libraries, schools, and a hospital
With this grant. Allegiance Communications
plans to deploy broadband technology lo an esti
mated 12.700 households and 2'o businesses in
the lout stale region It will he the first time wire
line broadband service taster than dialup is
ottered in most ol the uffected communities.
Allegiance also plans lo upgrade communications
tor public safety organizations lo Improve storm
warning systems and lost responder efforts
NTIA's Broadband Technology Opportunities
Program iHTOIM. Iiindcd by the Recovery Ad.
provides grants to support the deployment of
broadband infrastructure, enhance and expand
public computer centers, and encourage sustain-
able adoption ol broadband service.
“Broadband plays a critical role in helping
communities achieve durable, sustainable eco-
nomic growth. Assistanl Secretary lor
Communications and Inlormation
"I ike this grant, the strongest proposals we
have received are the ones that have taken a truly
comprehensive view ol the communities to he
served ami have engaged as many key members
ol the communities as |xtssiblc in developing the
protects.” said MIX Administrator Lawrence I
Stneklmg
MIA received more than I .non applications
proposing projects totaling nearly S19 billion dur-
ing the first B IOP funding round and has |ust
received a second round ol BTOP applications
requesting MI billion in funding
The Recovery Ad provided a total ol $7,2 bil-
lion to NTIA and the Department of Agriculture's
Rural Utilities Service to fund projects that will
expand uccess to and adoption of broadband serv
ices. Ol that binding. NTIA will utilize $4.7 bil-
lion lor grants to deploy broadband infrastructure
m the United Stales.expand public computer ccn
ter capacity, and encourage sustainable adoption
of broadband service NTIA will announce all
grant awards by Sept 30
Kaser
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MethpHs
Intercepted
by poNce
Bv Angenene Gibbs
He raid City Re power
Police arrested a Sapulpa couple Tuesday after
noon on drug charges alter an investigation
Adam Michael Kaser. 22. was booked on com
plaints ol offering, soliciting, attempting, endeav-
oring or conspiring to commit an olfense under the
Uniform
Controll c d
Dangerous
Substances Act
Ashley Nicole
Sowell. 22. was
booked on a com-
plaint for knowing-
ly or intentionally
possessing a con-
trolled. dangerous
substance
Police detec-
tives gathered
information on
Tuesday about the
manufacturing of
methumpheta-
mines and a trans-
action involving
boxes of pseu-
doephcdrine
Detectives and
unilormcd officers
witnessed Kusci
and Sowell talking
to an individual in
a parking lot in the
1000 block of E.
Taft After a trans-
action involving
lour packages ol pseudoephedrinc cold medicine,
the individual left the scene Police moved in anti
arrested Kaser and Sowell.
In a police interview. Kaser said he was a user
ol mcihamphciammcs and marijuana He told them
he collected the lour boxes ot pills to take them for
the manufacture of melhamphetamine
He admitted purchasing at least six boxes ol
pseudoephedrinc in the last lour months and col
lecting boxes from at least six other people
He told police he purchased chemicals lor Ihc
manufacture of meth He said he does noi person-
ally manufacture but he collects items tor others to
manufacture.
Court records showed Kaser pled guilty to
felony false declaration of ownership in pawn Iasi
summer He is serving a four-year deferred sen
tence
In Sowell's purse, police found a prescription
bottle in someone else’s name I he bottle con-
tained phentermine HCl. pills which is an appetite
suppressant stimulant similar lo amphetamine and
amphetamine pills Police records showed both
pills are controlled substances.
In a police interview. Sowell said she was a user
of melhamphetamine. she sold meth in the past and
manufactured it before She told police the phen
lermme pills belonged to her mother as well as the
prescription bottle She said someone else gave her
the amphetamine pills so she could sell them
t-
Sowell
McCullough seeks sunshine for state contracts
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Okiahoma House oe Representatives
Mi ima Rheasi
OKLAHOMA Cm legislation requiring
greater transparency when stale agencies hire pri
vale attorneys has gamed overwhelming support in
both state legislative ehamhers
'This legislation will give the public more inlor-
mation when their tax money is used by stale agen-
cies to hire private attorneys I he point is lo
encourage an arms length transaction when state
agencies hire private attorneys, said state Rep
Mark McCullough. R Sapulpa I earnestly believe
our current process is lacking, otherwise I wouldn I
have run this bill Based on the early support, I am
provide a copv ol ihc request lor proposal to any
person requesting one
Information about the lawyers or firm awarded
the contract, including services to be perlormed
and projected total payments, would also have to be
posted online
Under the bill, the governor would also have 30
days to review all agency contracts with private
attorneys that exceed $5()0,0riri and recommend
changes to the proposed contract II the agency or
agent chooses not include all the Governor s rec-
ommendations. a must stale w hy it chose not to
adopt them
The legislation also requires private attorneys to
the hours worked on the
have run inis mu nusco on me chut • »■■■ provide a statement ol —
optimistic we can send this important reform lo the case, expenses incurred, the aggregate lee amount
governor and see it signed into law this year." and u breakdown as to the hourly rate based on
Senate Bill 1379 creates the Private Attorney hours worked divided into lee recovered, less
Retention Sunshine Act and would require slate expenses Under the bill, attorneys could not
agencies hiring private attorneys to use a compeli- charge the state more than $1 .BOO pet hour
tive. public process anytime the contracts are The bill s authors McCullough and slat? Sen
greater than $5j000 Anthony Sykes (R Moore) - ure both atMrncyv
Under the bill, stale agencies would he required McCullough previously worked in tr.i tivii —. - - ■ .....
to put the work through a "request tor proposal Division of ihc Illinois Attorney Une.al s office I^ a,nk.f
process The legislation requires llw agencies to where his rule was to defend a variety of state agen- ' .. . ■ ,, ,
post the proposal in a conspicuous location on their cies, doing work that many Oklahoma agencies ence commute v w cn a i 1
website, along with a statement that the agency will now hire private counsel to handle
“ The fact that out
side attorneys arc-
hired so often in
Okluhoma and the
public is not allowed
to closely scrutinize
those contracts
should raise a red
flag for citizens."
McCullough said
He noted
Oklahoma received
unwanted national
attention Iasi yeai
when the XXall Street
Journal published an editorial noting the lack ol
transparency in the state's hiring ol private allot
neys.
According to The Oklahoman, stale agencies
spent over $24 million dollars on private attorney*
over a three-year period
Senate Bill 1370 passed the 1 fklahoma House- ol
Representatives on a bipartisan 7h-IK vote this
Rep. McCullough
worked out
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