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.
Editorial: Tulsa officer Betty Shelby must be prosecuted
Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby is quite fucked. But things could be worse. She could be Terence Crutcher, who is dead.
That is to say,...
‘White silence is complicity’
TULSA — I hadn’t heard of the hashtag #whitechurchquiet until Wednesday night when I sat in the Metropolitan Baptist Church at a justice vigil for...
Q&A: Workers’ compensation leader calls Oklahoma laws ‘an outrage’
Formed in 2015, the Oklahoma Coalition for Workers Rights (OCWR) seeks to bring greater awareness to recent changes in two key areas of Oklahoma's employment laws:...
Hupfeld Academy meets ‘original vision’ of charter schools
Congratulations to Stanley Hupfeld Academy at Western Village for being named an exemplar school by The Partnership for 21st-Century Learning (P21), an organization dedicated to...
‘Raise your voice’ against rape culture
So many times, I have set down to write an article about rape culture. So many times, I have failed to find the words.
I...
SQ 777: Contentious issue creating collateral damage
(Editor’s note: This week, NonDoc will publish pieces examining the seven state questions on this November’s Oklahoma ballot. We have already published pieces on SQ...
Local pastor shares hope for change beyond election
Like many of you (though strangely not all of all of you), I'm baffled by this election. How did we get here?
Our church tries...
SQ 790: Buckling church to state in the Bible belt
(Editor’s note: This week, NonDoc will publish pieces examining the seven state questions on this November’s Oklahoma ballot. The pieces are presented in a...
HD 85: Rep. Munson’s ‘most important duty … is to listen’
(Editor’s note: Earlier this month, NonDoc emailed questions to more than two-dozen candidates running for various offices. More than half of those sent questions did...
HD 82: Misty Warfield seeks to ‘help the working poor’
(Editor’s note: Earlier this month, NonDoc emailed questions to more than two-dozen candidates running for various offices. More than half of those sent questions...
