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: Wacky politics rule local campaigns, resignation
Don't look now, but the sputtering bus of Oklahoma democracy is back on the streets, running various stop signs and picking up an assortment...
School funding and welfare: How low can Oklahoma go?
Oklahoma’s growing failures in school funding and social welfare were recently showcased across two in-depth National Public Radio reports. Both are warnings to the rest of...
Electoral College worth saving (but needs tweaking)
Once again, another presidential election has occurred in which the candidate who earned the most popular votes failed to win a majority of electoral votes....
Reports: Trump picks Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt for EPA
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will be selected as Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to multiple reports.
Pruitt's name had drawn less...
5 people who could succeed Pruitt as attorney general
With Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt positioned to become the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Sooner State could find itself with...
Maybe Oklahoma’s poor who need Medicaid can move to Arkansas
FAIRFIELD BAY, Ark. — I have taken the time to provide a summary of The Oklahoman editorial board's riveting drivel: Declining Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma proving...
Editorial: Pig dumping at Lawton mosque a damn shame
If some dipshit in a pickup truck thinks slinging a pig carcass in the parking lot of a Lawton mosque counts as irreverent political discourse,...
GOP’s Calvey, Smalley tiff about Hofmeister future
What would bring leaders of Oklahoma's Republican Party to bicker publicly about one of their own?
Kevin Calvey (R-OKC) let it be known last week...
OKCPS principals’ conflict borne of legacy problems
I have been dreading this post.
I had hoped to sidestep the questions raised by Tim Willert’s article Monday regarding the criticism OKCPS principals and vice...
Finance secretary on state’s $692M hole: No ‘cutting your way out of this’
State leaders are expected to certify a $692 million estimated budget shortfall for the 2018 Fiscal Year, according to numbers announced this afternoon by Oklahoma Secretary of...
