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.
Meeting on bribed vote prohibits public comment
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
In the matter of one bribery case, Oklahoma Corporation Commission chairman Bob Anthony has been seeking...
Our Brand Is Crisis features overlooked performances
Last weekend, two movies that are becoming a rare breed were released in theaters: the behind-the-scenes chronicle of drama during Dan Rather’s CBS ousting in...
‘Elections in Native America are complicated’
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's legislative body formally requested international election monitors from the Carter Center for this year's principal chief election, which concludes Saturday.
But Carter Center staff told NonDoc...
Rape, race and resistance: OKC artists seek justice
Rape. Not the slow-motion scene in a television show or Lifetime movie where a woman cries in silence while a haunting song reminds you this is tragedy — where a...
State leaders seek alternative to Boren education tax
In the face of a one-cent sales tax increase proposed by dozens of Oklahoma education, business and philanthropic leaders, members of Oklahoma's executive and legislative branches...
A teacher’s tale: Joy, tragedy and weirdness
(Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from A Teacher's Tale, a new book chronicling author John Thompson's experiences teaching in inner-city Oklahoma City...
Oklahoma Fosters seeks to alleviate child-welfare ‘crisis’
Gov. Mary Fallin and Department of Health and Human Services director Ed Lake are asking volunteer foster parents, Native American tribes, businesses, churches and...
State to review gaming compact if ‘sun rises in the east’
The Oklahoma Model Tribal Gaming Compact will become eligible for renewal or adjustment in 2020, if not earlier.
Politicians, gaming experts, bureaucrats and lobbyists have told NonDoc...
Sooners aren’t causing your ‘transgenerational trauma’
Jumping the Shark is an idiom "used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in...
On Syrian refugees, politics preempt Christian duties
Gov. Mary Fallin loves to shout from the rooftops about her faith in God. But she and her fellow Republicans aren’t the only ones...
