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Rolling blackouts: Storm saga so confusing
When I received an email from OG&E this past week urging me and everyone else to conserve electricity, I almost started laughing.
The email was...
Letter: Medicaid managed care an opportunity to improve health outcomes
To the editors:
Lauren Carter’s recent letter to the editors regarding Medicaid managed care unfortunately fails to discuss the most important fact: Oklahoma has some of...
Good journalism is timeless: Warren Vieth joins NonDoc board
When Tres Savage asked me to consider joining NonDoc’s board of directors, I didn’t hesitate to accept.
NonDoc is part of a remarkable transformation of...
COVID-19 recommendations must change with scientific advances
What we know about COVID-19 today is different from what we knew as little as a month ago, let alone a year ago. Since...
You’re on your own: It’s too cold for Cupid this year
By the time you read this it will be Valentine's Day, and if the weather forecasts are correct, large amounts of snow will be...
Letter: Legislature should stop ‘disastrous’ privatized Medicaid managed care
To the editors:
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt remains committed to his disastrous plan to privatize the state's Medicaid program through managed care. It looks like...
COVID vaccine: Never doubt what nobody is sure about
Charlie looks pretty discouraged, but here in Oklahoma it seems that a fair number of people have been able to book a COVID-19 vaccine...
Oklahoma Legislature: A mask for thee, but not for me
Ah, yes: A mask for thee, but not for me. As the 2021 Oklahoma legislative session starts, there are some new pandemic-related guidelines in...
Quite the quandary: Q followers feel let down
Where do we Q from here? The broad question about the Q Anon movement has been asked by many recently, but with Joe Biden's...
Some call the assault on the Capitol unprecedented, but we have...
I’ve been writing about Oklahoma’s place in the American master narrative for a while now. My sense that we’re the repository for the nation’s...