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What does veto mean for special session? ‘Cuts and cash’ budget failure means more work for legislators By Randy Krehbiel Tulsa World
Just when the Oklahoma Legislature thought its interminable eightweek special session was over, Gov. Mary Fallin informed lawmakers differently. Fallin’s veto late Friday of most of a “cuts and cash” solution to a $215 million revenue shortfall means lawmakers will be back in FOR MORE session, probably Veto draws a mixed within the next reaction. Page A10 few days. Fallin said House Bill 1019 relied too much on non-recurring revenue and reserves and did not do enough to address long-term budget problems.
Dalton Coon sits at the grave of his father, Staff Sgt. Michael K. Coon, who committed suicide after multiple deployments. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
Mission in memoriam By Tim Stanley • Tulsa World
» See Session, page A4
A Black Friday ads available early The Tulsa World will give you a head start on your Black Friday shopping. The World will print its Thanksgiving Day paper, which will be full of advertisements with Black Friday deals, a day early. The paper will be for sale in front of the World’s downtown office, 315. S. Boulder Ave., from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday. The paper also will be available Wednesday afternoon at QuikTrip, Reasor’s, Walmart and other local retailers.
t a veterans appreciation event a few years ago, Michael K. Coon made his grandfather a promise. Pointing to the combat infantryman badge on Phillip Coon’s uniform, he said, “Grandpa, I’m going to have one of those, too — just like the one on your chest,” recalled Michael’s father, Michael D. Coon. He said it was the first time that his son, then 23, had indicated he planned to go into the military. Phillip — a decorated World War II veteran who survived the infamous Bataan Death March — couldn’t have been more proud of the young man he still referred to as “my baby grandson.” Going on to enlist in the Army, Michael K. Coon would represent the third generation of his family to serve, carrying on a tradition that, as a source of pride to the Coons, ranked second only to their Muscogee (Creek) heritage. » See Mission, page A6
Michael D. Coon holds the flag of his son, Staff Sgt. Michael K. Coon, who committed suicide after 10 years of service in the Army and multiple deployments to the Middle East. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World
They said he was a natural-born leader. I was like ‘Can this be the same boy I helped raise?’ ” Michael D. Coon, about his son, Staff Sgt. Michael K. Coon
County has FEMA compliance issue Official disagrees with contractor on Sheriff’s Office training center’s violation of floodplain requirements By Corey Jones Tulsa World
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office training center is in violation of FEMA floodplain requirements for not mitigating its additional stormwater runoff before the development began, according to the contractor who was hired to do the
site’s hydraulic modeling. A county engineering official involved with the project disagrees with that assessment and says the county intends to do the work as planned. Bill Smith, chairman of the Oklahoma Floodplain Managers Association, told the Tulsa World that failure to mitigate the development’s “added impervious area” puts Tulsa County and its residents at risk of probation or removal from the National Flood Insurance Program. “Added impervious area” refers to surfaces that water doesn’t pen-
etrate — such as the training center and its parking lot — creating more stormwater runoff than if it were natural landscape. Smith emphasized that suspension from the flood insurance program — a drastic and rare maneuver — is theoretically in play but not pending or imminent. Nonetheless, any non-compliance is a concern, he said. Probation would result in a $50 surcharge on premiums for new or renewed FEMA flood insurance policies each year the community » See FEMA, page A7
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