Tara Blume
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“Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” John Adams. News producer (chiefly) @kfor since 1992. Wife, mom, outdoor-enthusiast. Views are my own.
Oklahoma City, OK
Joined January 2012
Economic indicator: The McDonalds President was on the Today Show today offering the return of extra-value meals. He says across-the board fast-food traffic for lower income consumers is down double digits.
The McDonalds CEO just gave a reality check for the US economy - and it's ugly for most Americans: "With middle and lower income consumers, they're under a lot of pressure. If you're upper income earning over $100k, things are good. Stock markets are near all time highs.
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Ray Bradbury didn’t write Fahrenheit 451 in an office. At 33, broke, newly married, and desperate, he sat in the basement of a library, feeding dimes into a coin-operated typewriter that cost 10¢ for 30 minutes. In 9 days, for under $10, he finished the draft of a book about
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About 400 egrets were super annoyed we took our kayaks out today at Lake Hefner.
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quick, someone invent the battery
Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing.
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Massie: "I don't know if the Speaker misspoke when he said Donald Trump was an informant ... the Speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"
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I got to hug an alpaca yesterday! Look at their cute knees… I can’t stand it.
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One small victory for authors against copyright theft. "the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases,” AI company Anthropic agreed to pay this sum, which will involve the authors of 500,000 books each receiving $3,000. Demand more from Open AI & Meta in court.
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Prosecutor says statute of limitations prevents him from charging Nazarene church leaders who didn't report a church board member who allegedly molested young girls in the Shawnee church he attended. A new law could stop this from happening in the future. https://t.co/Hl61WwE3HO
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SHAWNEE, Okla. (KFOR) – There won’t be charges filed against several Nazarene church leaders after they were alleged to have known about years of sexual abuse involving several girls an…
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The video you've seen of an Oklahoma inmate hanging out of a prison van on I-40, pleading with drivers, is real. Here's what happened next.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has acknowledged an incident involving an inmate hanging out of the back window of a van on an Oklahoma City interstate this week. The …
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On a brighter note-- you have better odds of winning the Powerball than being killed by a meteorite.
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How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart https://t.co/ugA5RqUGrK via @NYTimes
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The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.
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NEW 🔴 House Speaker Johnson alleged that President Trump acted as an FBI informant to aid in bringing down Jeffrey Epstein. Contributed by @vanguardintel
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Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
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Checking the odds: hey, you might not win but maybe you'll be president instead.
The Powerball jackpot is now a whopping $1.8 billion for Saturday's drawing, after yet another drawing passed without a big winner on Wednesday. 🤑💸 Saturday's Powerball jackpot now ranks as the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, only behind the world record $2.04
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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
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Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.
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Nonfarm payrolls data for June was revised down from an initially reported 14,000 job additions to a loss of 13,000 jobs. That's the first negative monthly nonfarm payroll number since 2020.
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The measles outbreak centered on a Mennonite Community in Texas that was largely unvaccinated.
Kasie: More kids died in this country of measles this year than in decades Mullin: We can talk about the open southern border and what caused that. We're not talking about measles outbreaks from kids that were born and raised here. We're talking about ones that were brought over
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Three people have had short but lucrative stints as Walters' Communications Directors in 2025. News 4 has reached out to Hitchcock and Press Secretary Madison Cercy for several weeks, but has never heard back. By @dylantbrown
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It has been a revolving door at the Department of Education under Superintendent Ryan Walters’ leadership, with three communication directors coming and going in six months or so.
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How a Water Conservation Idea Won Over Oklahoma Farmers. “About 100 Oklahoman streams once polluted by runoff predominantly from farmland have been restored to health. That’s more than in any other state, according to the EPA.” FREE READ https://t.co/cOuZcLByWD via @NYTimes
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Haunted by memories of the Dust Bowl, Oklahoma farmers have adopted conservation practices that have helped to revive about 100 streams.
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There’s not much left of the arena at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds— a.k.a. The Big House. Demolition crews are hard at work, bringing down the remaining exterior wall columns. #drone #dronepilot #dronelife #dronephotography #dronevideo #okc #seeokc #oklahomaphotographer
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