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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
