Editor, The Transcript:

There sure seems to be a lot of coincidences lately when it comes to our city government. The mayor coincidentally works for the University of Oklahoma, but defeated efforts to make being an employee a conflict of interest. Then OU coincidentally wants to back out of a deal with the city, which finances the Foundation's own private development. This happened last December but coincidentally the mayor who campaigned on transparency in government never brought this out. Now we find out the only time this was brought up was in an executive session where coincidentally it was not listed on the agenda. Finally with the council over a barrel they agree to a deal which gives away most of what they negotiated because since it came up at the last minute they were "over a barrel" and needed the funds before the end of the fiscal year. Coincidentally the only votes against this were personally attacked in public for their ethics.

I don't believe in coincidence, do you?

JEANETTE COKER

Norman