Civics
NonDoc journalists report on the civic realm in Oklahoma and beyond. Our site also publishes a variety of commentary pieces about civic matters. As a site category, "Civics" encompasses three subcategories: Education, Health Care and Politics.
‘Number sense’ needed in math education
It used to be almost cliché that when I met people, at a party or on an airplane, and told them I was a...
Q&A: Clint Williams — Director of Mary Abbot Children’s House and Norman City Councilor
Clint Williams is the executive director of the Mary Abbott Children's House in Norman, and he also represents Ward 2 on the Norman City...
Q&A: Susan Binkowski — ‘The bigger the world gets, the smaller the neighborhood remains’
Oklahoma-owned-and-operated Buy For Less boasts more than a dozen locations in the OKC metro. The company also runs several Super Mercado and Uptown Grocery Company locations....
Oklahoma public meetings in September
(Editor's Note: Here, from our NonDoc base in Oklahoma's capital city, we want people to remember that The Oklahoma Open Meeting Act ensures access to Oklahoma public...
Better to be Okies than Boomers and Sooners
The term “Okie” is the presumed pejorative with which Oklahomans have been coping in one way or another since 1939 when John Steinbeck publicized...
Comprehensive list of Oklahoma casinos released
The state of Oklahoma is home to so many electronic gaming casinos that, as of early November, a comprehensive list of the gambling establishments did...
Our series on ‘labor’ starts Tuesday
This may be a difficult way to say, "Happy Labor Day" and introduce an upcoming series of content, but here goes.
When Oklahoma Labor Commissioner...
Right To Work 14 years later: ‘It was an incredible campaign’
Across the nation, state legislatures and electorates are still debating one of the biggest issues in organized labor: Should private-sector unions be allowed to...
Health official: ‘We are a pill-popping nation’
NORMAN — More people die of prescription drug abuse annually in Oklahoma than die in motor-vehicle crashes, according to a 2015 report by the...
Our 9/11s, the personal and detached
The murder of TV journalists on a live broadcast. A white supremacist gunning down African American church-goers in South Carolina. The heartbreaking image of...
