The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • A1

NEWSOK.COM $3 REACHING MORE THAN 475,000 PEOPLE EACH DAY Sunday, December 16, 2018 CUSTOMER SERVICE Online: oklahoman.com/account Phone: 405-478-7171 Loving God, free us from greed and envy so that we might know the inner peace that comes from being content. Amen. PRAYER Weather, 18A SOME SUN 56 29 Volume 127, 350 5 Sections Copyright 2018 GateHouse Media All rights reserved BY BEN FELDER Staff Writer House Democrats plan to push for Medicaid expansion in 2019, inviting Republicans to help craft their own plan or risk a statewide vote in a few years, a step several other conservative states have may be a willingness especially since I think likely there will be an effort to get it on the Minority Emily Virgin, D-Norman. my preference is to get it done legislatively, and I think Republicans would also prefer Accepting nearly $900 million in federal funding through Medicaid expansion would require $100 million from the state, and health coverage to an additional 200,000 low- income Oklahomans. Gov.

Mary Fallin has consistently expansion made possible through Affordable Care Kevin Stitt has also declined to endorse Medicaid expansion, telling The Oklahoman his first priority is getting more control over the Health Care Authority. of conversation on Medicaid are very important to the governor said Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for Stitt. it all has to start by making sure the Health Care Authority is being held accountable to the people of Oklahoma, and that starts by governor the ability to appoint that agency With just 24 of 101 members in the House, nowhere near enough votes to pass Medicaid expansion, let alone force a committee vote. But if Republicans believe a state question on Medicaid expansion is a possibility, Virgin believes there willingness to get something done in question that Medicaid expansion would give you a front-end load Dems ill push Medicaid expansion BY NOLAN CLAY Staff Writer In the lowest moment of her final days as an Oklahoma County employee, Leona Porter was required to sit in a rocking chair at the glass entrance of the County Office and greet passers-by, her attorneys say. Her new boss, Oklahoma County Clerk David Hooten, was treating her like a slave on display at a like Jemima sitting on the front porch of the she complained last year.

Days later, she was fired. he did to me was awful It was humiliating. It was awful. It was she said Thursday after a federal judge approved a settlement of her age and discrimination lawsuit against the county. County commissioners voted 2-1 in November to settle her case for $175,000 in taxpayer money.

Hooten opposed the settlement, saying the two retiring commissioners agreed to it to help a friend. Hooten said. just wrong. just Property owners will pay more in ad valorem taxes for three years to cover the judgment. The owner of a $150,000 home, for example, will pay a total of 40 cents Discrimination case settled for $175K BY BERRY TRAMEL Columnist ORMAN Jake Tullius lives at the end of the cul-de-sac.

Back in the old days, turn onto Cynthia Circle and know the drill. Drive slow. go more than 3 mph, because there were kids Tullius said. were running all over the place. They played every game imaginable.

Anything with a ball, they were on it. Anything you could run or chase or hide. It was Home Run Derby in front yards and back. Hockey in the street. Football in Harold massive yard in the house behind Cynthia Circle.

Capture the Flag when the sun set on summer nights. Sherwood and Julie Taylor moved onto Cynthia Circle 31 years ago. Their son Zac was daughter Kathryn was 2. Soon enough, son Press and daughter Quincy came along. The Taylors live there still.

Julie Taylor has counted. Around the ages of her children, 33 kids grew up in the 15 houses on Cynthia Circle in The Trails neighborhood, west of Lloyd Noble Center and just south of Highway 9. Most of those 33 kids were boys. Five of the Cynthia Circle kids became Norman High School quarterbacks, in a 13-season span, 19942006. Two of them, Zac and Press Taylor, became college quarterbacks, Zac at Nebraska, Press at Marshall, and now are quarterback coaches in the National Football League.

Los Angeles Rams host Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday Night Football this weekend. But this is not a quarterback story. This is a story of growing up the way kids THE CUL-DE-SAC Zac Taylor is the quarterbacks coach for the Los Angeles Rams. Press Taylor is the quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. David Hooten Leona Porter is shown in a rocking chair at the Oklahoma County Office in this 2017 photo provided by her lead attorney in a civil case.

County Clerk David Hooten claims the photo may have been faked. Press Taylor, left, shown quarterbacking the Norman Tigers in 2005, and Zac Taylor, right, shown at quarterback for the Tigers in 2001, are two of several kids who grew up on Cynthia Circle in Norman and then went on to big things. ARCHIVES A small street in Norman begat high school quarterbacks, NFL coaches and a way of life SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Philadelphia Eagles vs. L.A. Rams When: 7:20 p.m., Sunday Where: LA Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles TV: KFOR-4 (Cox 4) Emily Virgin Business 1C ed 1D Deaths 14A Life 7C Opinion 16A Puzzles in Comics Sports 1B Stocks 5C SEE MEDICAID, 2A SEE COUNTY, 4A SEE CUL-DE-SAC, 2A INSIDE TODAY! VALUABLE COUPONS BUSINESS Industrial salvage Change may be rolling into South Hub Cap Alley.

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