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In 2022, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
"A little messy, but we're cleaning up" is about the best way I can describe the end of 2021. There are certainly many things...
Data reveal opportunity gaps along demographic lines
In recent years, we have heard plenty of sad news about our home state. We learned in 2016 that life expectancies of poor Oklahomans...
Oklahoma’s political microcosm ripe for innovation
There’s a lot of good and necessary talk about Oklahoma's budget crisis in the news right now. There’s pointed economic research and political speculation,...
Kids these days: A March For Our Lives feature
The sight was something to behold: a two-mile-long line of people stretching across the three lanes of Lincoln Boulevard, en route to the Oklahoma...
‘Our city on the hill embraces the landfill’
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
Data-informed decisions benefit Pathway to Greatness
During the first of Oklahoma City Public Schools' Pathway to Greatness community meetings, Superintendent Sean McDaniel told 150 “skeptical parents” that “we have got to figure...
Every Student Succeeds Act: A tale of two reports
(Correction: This commentary was updated at 11:26 a.m. Friday, Jan. 5, to note the correct overall score given to Oklahoma in the Bellwether report....
Milady of the Beer: ‘I’m superb at love and war’
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
WTF v. FTW: Legislating the womb, picking at the budget
Student protests and a political standoff punctuated the penultimate week of the 55th Oklahoma Legislature's second session. On Monday, more than 1,000 OKCPS students demonstrated...
Okie folksters rub elbows with Ani DiFranco in KCMO
Oklahoma traditionally has a high profile at the Folk Alliance International conference, and this year was no exception.
The 2017 installment also featured a high-profile special...
