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.
Innovation in education requires smart implementation
Much discussion and controversy surround education in Oklahoma. Differing needs for urban and rural schools, a changing economy, and a lagging state budget have...
Strange bedfellows want asset forfeiture reform
“Politics makes strange bedfellows,” said 19th Century journalist Charles Dudley Warner.
While that phrase is something we hear to explain the occasional setting aside of...
Donald Trump called me a ‘terrible’ person
As I stood scrawling notes next to a dozen television cameras, Donald Trump told upwards of 3,000 people at the Oklahoma State Fair his...
Racial divide widens under Austin’s whitening
AUSTIN, Texas — The millennials have spoken. They have chosen this proudly odd capital city as their own, flooding it with startups and sustaining a...
Smart on crime: VICE News screens documentary for Oklahoma inmates
President Obama's unprecedented visit to an El Reno federal correctional facility in July has been followed up with something similarly novel: The first screening...
Coalition forming for $0.01 sales tax to fund education
OU President David L. Boren is helping form a coalition of business and civic leaders that will push a statewide initiative petition to propose a $0.01...
Local media mishandle panhandling headlines
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of panhandlers in OKC's medians, local media love it. It's that perfect combination of public awareness...
Thirty pages from the Watonga Republican
I wrote Monday about various oddities and tidbits found in the Beckham County Record-Democrat.
One thing I didn't have time to mention is how interesting...
Trump’s Oklahoma leadership is a motley crew
One of the half-dozen people who were listed as chairing Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign efforts in Oklahoma is a Harvard-educated used-car salesman with...
Chief of police, pastor and community discuss race
It was an earnest and progressive come-together Monday evening between the African-American pastor of East 6th Street Christian Church, Jesse Jackson, and Oklahoma City Chief...
