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Parents agree: The Easter bunny is an essential worker
A big shout out to all the essential workers doing their thing right now. I know working through a pandemic isn't a situation people...
‘The earth rocked’: A diary from the day of the Oklahoma City bombing
It doesn’t feel like it has been 25 years. Much has happened since then, but the morning of April 19, 1995, is still stuck...
Letter: If the governor won’t enforce a mask requirement, the task falls to citizens
To the editors:
Being at high risk for COVID-19, I shop as early as possible and at stores with special hours for at-risk individuals. I...
‘We must act’: Earth Day in the time of pandemic
In the fall of 2019, the journalist David Corn wrote in Mother Jones about a mental health crisis among climate scientists, who...
‘Gray days are the hardest’: a pandemic diary
4.21.20
Norman
Gray days are the hardest.
On days when the sun shines, we are out walking, dogs on leashes, mothers and dads pushing strollers, helmeted kids...
Open sesame: Kevin Stitt and the 40 mayors
You can hear it faintly in the distance: A call from the governor's OKC residences, or perhaps his home in Tulsa, to slowly re-open...
Caring for the environment can help you get through the pandemic
To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, this Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone’s needs but not everyone’s greed.
As an environmentalist and a minimalist, I cannot help...
‘What we fear to fear’: a pandemic diary
April 28, 2020
Outside Wanette
Thunder rolls from the west into Pottawatomie County. Emmylou Harris is playing. Emmy and I have spent a lot of down...
All the government Oklahoma could ever want
The old phrase "You learn something new every day!" still applies to me, and probably many others no matter how old we get. For...
Mask wearing comes easier for some than others
First of all, I'd just like to say happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Can we gather for Mother's Day? Do...
