Public vetting is right way for city to handle proposed code change

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: October 29, 2011

W ITH no fanfare, Oklahoma County officials in late 2004 added sexual orientation to the list of items protected from employment discrimination. Given the area's conservative leanings, what would be routine in other parts of the country surely caused a firestorm here.

Except that it really didn't — at least not initially — because the public didn't know it had happened.

Nearly seven years later, the ci...


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