Commentary
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420: No longer just for stoners as weed politics grow
Merry Spliffmas and Happy Chronukah, y'all!
Each year, April 20 stands as a sort of marijuana-appreciation day, mainly because the numerical date of 4-20 corresponds...
Five uses for $40k that are better than special elections
Oklahomans will be gifted the chance to send some new faces to the Capitol in some upcoming special elections.
On one hand, I'm happy that garbage...
Letter: Okie Democrats do well once voters have facts
To the editors:
If you’ve heard that the Oklahoma Democratic Party is on the way out in Oklahoma, let’s review Democrats’ success in special elections...
Editorial: How many third-graders would Jesus suspend?
Our Monday editorials are written on Sunday. Hence, this examination of SB 81 was crafted on Easter.
That bill (embedded below), authored by Sen. Ron Sharp...
Poetry: Starry night of the great fire & The final seder
Starry Night of the Great Fire
by Derek Geiger
Chattel ride a ferrous horse
Off to their ash-filled commune
To forge axes for the norse
As they march to...
Senate’s archaic procedure of cloture should be killed
Remember the old pasta sauce commercial that had lots of people asking if a certain popular sauce contained specific spices and specialty items? The tagline...
People are strange: NYT columns reveal Tulsans’ duality
Nick Kristof and David Kirp had two noteworthy commentaries about Tulsa published in The New York Times on April 1. Although neither was a joke, their...
Legacy of Yevgeny Yevtushenko lies in his poems
When NonDoc launched, we had a fluttering idea that we might run the occasional poem. Initially, we paired a few with Mike Allen's early...
H2O-M-G: David Walters finds another $1 billion
Water is a big deal.
Nations go to war over water. States fight incessantly about water quality and transfers. There is a significant body of...
Journalists lose credibility when failing to issue corrections
Last week, two major journalism organizations in Oklahoma got stories wrong. One pulled its post down without issuing any official correction, while the other updated and...