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.
Cheat sheet: 35-year teacher, parents vie for Putnam City School Board Office 3
Three candidates will appear on the primary ballot for Office No. 3 of the Putnam City Schools Board of Education: incumbent board member Sky...
‘You do your duty’: Oklahoma National Guard sends 394 members to support Inauguration Day
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Oklahomans did not expect to witness history at President Joe Biden’s inauguration today, but the Jan. 6 insurrection at the...
Cheat sheet: Chris Lewis faces Brandi Studley in Norman Ward 1 race
(Correction: This article was updated at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, to note that Finn Guttery publicly announced a withdrawal from the Norman Ward...
With the nation tense, MLK Day is different in 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year might look different to Black Americans, and not just because of cancellations owing to...
The week in coveducation: New school quarantine policy met with criticism
A new state policy that gives school districts the option not to require students to quarantine if they've been exposed to someone with COVID-19...
State frustrated as feds fumble COVID vaccine booster shots
Federal reserves of booster doses for COVID-19 vaccines were expected to be a shot in the arm for Oklahoma's vaccination capabilities in coming weeks,...
Trait Thompson: ‘We will inspire the creation of a better Oklahoma in the future’
Last spring, Bob Blackburn announced he would be retiring as executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society. Blackburn, a historian and author, had held...
Six months in, Oklahoma County’s jail trust is a chaotic mixed bag
Public meetings are often tedious, sparsely attended affairs, but this past year the meetings of the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority, which oversees the...
New policy seeks to incentivize schools to offer in-person options
Oklahoma school districts will receive more COVID-19 tests, more personal protective equipment and a new incentive to enforce mask wearing on school sites, according...
Teachers talk U.S. Capitol riot with #oklaed students
Gemma Defee's AP government class had discussed James Madison's Federalist No. 10 and his warnings about factions shortly before last week's breach of the...
