Top 10 of the 2000s: Scroll down. Top 10 of the 1990s: Click here. Top 10 of 2010: Click here. Top 10 of 2011: Click here. By Bobby Ross Jr., Dec. 31, 2009 Ten years ago, I spent the last night of the millennium on Y2K duty at The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City’s major metropolitan daily. For the [...]
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The 2000s in review: My Top 10 stories of the decade
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Associated Press, Christian Chronicle print, Christianity Today, Oklahoman, Religion News ServiceHeadline: Divorce rate stays steady, study shows Byline: Bobby Ross Jr. Source: Publication Date: February 10, 2002 Page: 1-A Three years after Gov. Frank Keating declared war on the state’s No. 2-in-the-nation divorce rate, the enemy shows little sign of retreating. Oklahoma’s number of failed marriages – about 20,000 a year – has remained fairly steady, state records show. For every 100 [...]
Church cashes in on lesson Bobby Ross Jr. Published: February 16, 2002 IMAGINE showing up for worship one weekend and, instead of putting money in the collection plate, taking home a wad of bills. You can spend the money however you want. A movie and a bucket of buttery popcorn? Sure. A new car stereo [...]
No stone to throw Ministry helps those working in sex industry Bobby Ross Jr. Published: January 26, 2002 MICAELA Wilson hated her weekend job. She hated the way it made her feel. Still, the pay was hard to beat: She’d just made $1,100 for two nights’ work. Such thoughts ran through the Oklahoma City woman’s [...]
Transfusion opposition lies in faith Bobby Ross Jr. Published: January 12, 2002 WITH a chance to save her baby’s life, how could a mother refuse? I asked myself that, I must admit, when I read about a boy born almost three months premature at OU Medical Center. As staff writer Ken Raymond reported recently in [...]
Dad proud of son Bobby Ross Jr. Published: October 6, 2001 MY son Brady, 8, has grown up in The Oklahoman. I guess that’s what happens when both your parents work in the news business. Before he turned 3 months old, a photograph of Brady’s friend White Bear planting a kiss on his cheek appeared [...]
Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)September 29, 2001, Saturday CITY EDITION City chaplains assist victims in New York Kind words from understanding group eases pain BYLINE: Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Editor SECTION: OKLAHOMA RELIGION; LENGTH: 1447 words When Baptist chaplains from Oklahoma City arrived at the World Trade Center ruins, they lacked proper credentials to enter ground zero. At the [...]
Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) September 12, 2001, Wednesday CITY EDITION City’s Muslims fear backlash of blame BYLINE: Bobby Ross Jr., Randy Ellis, Staff Writers SECTION: NEWS; LENGTH: 878 words A distraught Muslim woman called the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City on Tuesday morning as terrorist attacks rocked the nation. “She’s completely terrified,” said Suhaib Webb, imam of the [...]
July 28, 2001: Soul Searching column Praying brings food for thought By Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Editor IN the three seconds since the waitress delivered my plate, I’ve drenched my brisket sandwich with barbecue sauce and taken a bite the size of Bill Gates’ bank account. Just as I start to chew this mammoth hunk [...]
With Papa in Tennessee during our family vacation in 2008 • • • Saluting a notable survivor, originally published May 26, 2001 By Bobby Ross Jr. As a freckle-faced kid, I never thought much about my grandfather’s contributions to World War II. I just knew his leathery hands and gray hair made him smarter than [...]
