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Jones PR awkwardly calls Edmond a ‘food desert’
Imagine being part of an Oklahoma family living somewhere near the poverty level. Budgets are tight, vacations don't exist and feeding your loved ones...
A Nepali Tale: ‘His life is pure kindness’
A Nepali Tale
by James Coburn
Tea pot whistles
with steam sent flying
in a sarangi hiss.
An old gray shopkeeper's eyes
take aim as dim as they be.
His Nepali...
News 9 education series finds ‘joyful’ learning in Finland
There are a lot of reasons why News 9’s special report, Educate Oklahoma, is bound to be honored with national journalism awards.
The biggest reason...
National anthem drama highlights American rights
One of the more routine tasks of being a public address announcer during my time at Langston University involved playing the national anthem at sporting...
A message from NonDoc’s newest partner: Ashiq Zaman
I first heard the phrase “a filter, not a funnel” around 2007 at The OU Daily (then known as The Oklahoma Daily).
The Daily's editor in...
Yukon animal shelter’s no-kill policy hides ‘dark truths’
When a building meant to house 100 animals is a semi-permanent home to more than 400, reporters start showing up at the door.
Over the...
Letter: Blame earthquake on Fallin, ‘oilpatch boyfriends’
To the editors:
Thanks to Gov. Mary Fallin and her oilpatch boyfriends, Oklahoma has hit a new numerical high: a second 5.6 earthquake, this time...
Letter: Barry Switzer and his wife voting ‘No’ on SQ 777
To the editors:
My passion for the gridiron is well known. What a lot of people don’t know about me is my love of animals.
My...
Watch Hillary Clinton soothe America’s children after OKC bombing
If you like Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, you've probably noticed that a lot of people don't.
She's icy, people say. Cold. Calculated. Strategic. She's...
Sundaze: ‘Time to study’ at the University of Oklahoma
'Time to study'
Over the course of my father's three decades teaching state history at the University of Oklahoma, he developed a stock joke — whenever OU lost its...
