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.
Death penalty rodeo: Glossip execution stayed
It's a good thing they have a rodeo arena at the "Big Mac" State Penitentiary down in Pittsburg County.
Statewide politicians, anti-death penalty advocates, a...
October meeting calendar
(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...
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...
Oil layoffs: Benefits can be available even with severance pay
Chesapeake Energy Corp. reportedly laid off hundreds of employees Tuesday, another wound in Oklahoma's festering oil and gas economy.
Those included in the latest round...
Fast times in food service: booze, excess and stress
It’s fun, flexible and easy cash, but ask any server or young professional about their time taking tables in the food service industry, and...
MAPS 4 could transform Martin Luther King Boulevard
(Editor's Note: Sandino L. Thompson is a member of the planning committee pushing for a MAPS 4 Neighborhoods effort.)
If you regularly drive Martin Luther King...
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...
