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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Border town once invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of troops
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NEW MEXICO Border town once invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of troops COLUMBUS, New Mexico – A small New Mexico border town once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy to draw tourists. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has cited Villa’s 1916 raid…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Oklahoma prosecutors resist push for prison alternatives
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OKLAHOMA Prosecutors resist push for prison alternatives OKLAHOMA CITY – Since the days of frontier justice, lawmakers in conservative Oklahoma have viewed harsh prison sentences as the politically expedient solution to crime, including nonviolent offenses. That approach has imposed a high price, leaving the state with the nation’s highest incarceration rate, overcrowded prisons and skyrocketing…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Oklahoma GOPers targeted by colleague, dark money
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Republicans targeted by colleague, dark money OKLAHOMA CITY – When voters booted a dozen Oklahoma Republican legislators from office in the state primary, the common thinking was that educators angry about classroom funding were behind the ousters. But there were forces at work beyond just agitated teachers. A top GOP House leader actively participated in…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Oklahoma awards first medical marijuana patient licenses
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Oklahoma awards first medical marijuana patient licenses OKLAHOMA CITY – More than 1,600 people and businesses applied for Oklahoma medical marijuana licenses on the first day that applications were made available. The online application system went live in late August at www.OMMA.ok.gov for all potential medical marijuana patients, growers, dispensaries, processors and caregivers. Oklahoma State…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Gay Native American Democrat busts candidate mold in Kansas
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KANSAS Gay Native American Democrat busts candidate mold in Kansas TOPEKA, Kansas – Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas has added her name to her party’s increasingly diverse slate of candidates advancing to the November ballot. Davids, who would be the first gay Native American elected to Congress, narrowly won a six-way primary in her eastern…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Santa Fe fiesta to drop conquistador reenactment
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New Mexico Reenactment of conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe will end SANTA FE – An annual reenactment of a 17th-century Spanish conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe from Native Americans after an uprising will end amid protests that it whitewashed a dark period in New Mexico history. Organizers of the annual Fiesta de Santa Fe said they would…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Oklahoma fast-tracks medical marijuana, faces pushback
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Oklahoma Oklahoma fast-tracking medical marijuana, but with pushback OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma pushed ahead last week with emergency rules aimed at fast-tracking operations of the medical marijuana industry, but not before concerned health officials tacked on requirements that cannabis advocates say will only slow things down. The state Board of Health narrowly voted to prohibit…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Pruitt’s political future uncertain back home in Oklahoma
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Oklahoma Pruitt’s political future uncertain back home OKLAHOMA CITY – Scott Pruitt’s tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ended with his resignation, but political experts in his home state of Oklahoma say he could continue his career in public office. The path could lead him back to Washington. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Romney looks ahead after winning Senate nomination
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Utah Romney looks to November after landslide Utah primary win SALT LAKE CITY – Mitt Romney looks like a shoo-in for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah after winning a landslide primary victory and toning down his criticism of Donald Trump, but first he’ll face a Democratic opponent with a distinctly different political outlook. Jenny…
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Medical marijuana push spreads to Colo.’s neighbors
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SALT LAKE CITY – The push for legalized marijuana has moved into two of Colorado’s neighbor states – Utah and Oklahoma, two of the most conservative states in the country – further underscoring how quickly feelings about marijuana are changing in the United States. If ballot measures in the two states pass, Utah and Oklahoma…