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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...
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...
Sundaze: The bat logo and the palm tree
Poetry Second
Palm Tree
by Wesley Tinga
I look outside my window and behold
Palm trees in the distant land
Where land enjoys harmony with the sky
Yonder the majestic landscape
The...
Letters: The real Top Daug speaks; ‘irony’; and comrades
The following letters were sent to NonDoc over the past two weeks.
To the editors:
Hello, Mike Allen. Thank you so much for the great article...
Bedlam could propel OU’s Mayfield, Westbrook to Heisman ceremony
The No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners (9-2, 9-0 Big 12) are all but out of the playoff mix, but OU quarterback Baker Mayfield and wide receiver...
Sinister vibes haunt marsh country of coastal Louisiana
In marsh country just a few miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, Chenier Perdue Road winds, in part, through rural Cameron Parish, Louisiana....
On World AIDS Day, longtime HIV carrier considers progress
LOS ANGELES — On this World AIDS Day, I will enter my 40th year of living with HIV. I have seen a lot over those...
Most polls merely good for getting clicks (and little else)
The wife of Noah Webster, he of dictionary fame, once came home to find her husband in bed with the maid. “Noah,” said Mrs....
Betrayal: Intersections of white supremacy & feminism
A day and a half after the election, to say that I was still dazed would be an understatement. I was in a state...
‘Worse‘ than you think: Betsy DeVos and the far-right
Yes, the Donald Trump nominee for the U.S. Secretary of Education is the same Betsy DeVos who cheered the defeat of SQ 779 and helped fund...