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Wine bottles in The Spirit Shop in Norman — Jacob McCleland / KGOU

State Question Could Bring Wine And Cold Beer To More Places, Change Oklahoma’s Alcohol Distribution

“There he is!” Bryan Kerr said with a laugh, as he greeted a customer at his liquor store in Moore. ”You’re always showing up at exactly the right time.” The customer navigated through rows of bottles at Moore Liquor, while Kerr slipped outside. He took a few steps to an adjoining storefront to another business he owns: Party Moore. “A lot of people mistake it for like a Party Galaxy or Party City. It is not that,” Kerr said as he cracked open the store’s door. “It is a party store that is...

Protesters marched from the Greenwood Cultural Center to Tulsa City Hall in a demonstration over Terence Crutcher's death. — Matt Trotter / Oklahoma Public Media Exchange

Hundreds Join Al Sharpton In Tulsa Protest Against Terence Crutcher’s Death

Attorney John Hunsucker stands next to a breath testing machine. — Brent Fuchs / The Journal Record

State Supreme Court Upholds DUI Ruling That Could Let Some Oklahoma Drivers Keep Their Licenses

Oklahoma Districts Refile Lawsuit Over Decades-Long Property Tax Allocation Mistake

By Brian Hardzinski • Sep 19, 2016

School buses are parked at the Oklahoma City Public Schools Operations Center in Oklahoma City. — Brent Fuchs / The Journal Record

For 22 years, the state miscalculated how much property tax should go back to local school districts. That means hundreds of campuses lost money over that time period, while the rest got more than they deserved.

Some Oklahoma school districts are now going after millions of dollars they say were applied the wrong way, The Journal Record’s Dale Denwalt reports:

Oil #1: We Buy Oil

By Robert Smith & Stacey Vanek Smith • Sep 19, 2016

Oil is everywhere, and in nearly everything: Our phones, our clothes, our food, and our medicine. It has driven industrial progress and technology. It has shaped our civilization, powered its rise. Despite all this, oil has exacted an enormous price: our climate is changing, smog is smothering cities around the world. That all comes, in part, from burning fossil fuels like oil.

KGOU's Funding Model Works Well

By Karen Holp • Sep 18, 2016

September 18, 2016

This is from the Manager’s Desk.

Reading about media trends can be a little scary. There are always forecasts of doom and reports of innovations that will change the world, and concerns about how to pay for it all.

For me, public radio’s long time funding model works well. KGOU produces and delivers as much quality content as the budget will allow, and you get it first without having to pay.

Then you make donations based on how well we’ve done. The more people donate, the more we can deliver in the future.

SLIDESHOW: Dozens Protest Trump’s Norman Fundraiser Before Heavy Rain Sets In

By Brian Hardzinski • Sep 18, 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives at the home of Hunter and Kathy Miller in Norman for a fundraiser Saturday, September 17, 2016. — Brian Hardzinski / KGOU

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent a little over an hour in Norman Saturday afternoon, courting campaign donors just a few blocks from the campus of the University of Oklahoma.

More than 100 demonstrators gathered near the private residence where the fundraiser was held, protesting Trump’s views on race, immigration, and the economy.

How College Aid Is Like A Bad Coupon

By Anya Kamenetz • Sep 17, 2016

Ian grew up in Milwaukee, in an African-American family with five kids where the annual income was just $25,000. He was involved in sports and after-school activities, and spent a year working after high school to save up for college. He saw himself as a role model in his community: "They see me going to college and are like, 'Oh, he's doing something positive, he's breaking through the ceiling.' "

Trump To Visit Norman Saturday For Fundraiser With Oklahoma Business, Energy Leaders

By Brian Hardzinski • Sep 17, 2016

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump appears at a rally in Oklahoma City on February 26, 2016. — Emily Wendler / Oklahoma Public Media Exchange

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be in Norman Saturday afternoon for a fundraiser just a few blocks from the University of Oklahoma campus.

Just leaving Miami for Houston, Oklahoma and Colorado. Miami crowd was fantastic!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2016

How ISIS Is Shaking Up The Once-Predictable Mediterranean Drug Trade

By Suzette Grillot & Brian Hardzinski • Sep 16, 2016

Swaths of cannabis in northern Morocco. The U.N. estimates 80,000 families in the rugged northern Rif mountains make their living from growing marijuana. Their efforst have made Morocco the main hashish supplier for Europe and the world. — Abdeljalil Bounhar / AP

Since 2013, European Union officials have seized hundreds of tons of hashish, worth more than $3 billion, from 20 ships traversing a lucrative drug trafficking route across the Mediterranean.

The drugs flow through multiple countries – Morocco, Libya, Egypt, and some Balkan states – and even areas controlled by self-proclaimed Islamic State militants, who are taxing the shipments as it goes through their territory.