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Trump’s popularity swells on ‘tide of distraction’
(Editor’s Note: Vital Conversations is a running series of commentaries from various faith leaders. The series is sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary, though contributions...
CEO: ‘MakeOKBetter’ by taking federal health care funds
WAGONER — Rural hospitals across Oklahoma are in crisis.
Each year, Oklahoma hospitals absorb more than $560 million in unreimbursed care for their uninsured and...
WTF v. FTW: Church-state debate and criminal-justice reform
Checks and balances. Win some, lose some.
Following last week's advancement of two bills that potentially threaten Oklahomans' health in more ways than one, the...
Observations from a now-retired OKCPS board member
(Editor's Note: The following is text from long-time Oklahoma City Public School Board member Phil Horning's farewell address delivered Feb. 1. It has been...
At SXSW, Obama will find a microcosm of U.S. challenges
AUSTIN, Texas — We don’t yet know when President Obama will touch down in Austin this week. We do know he’ll be in town...
Sanders reawakens Oklahoma’s socialist roots
It was déjà vu all over again, at least for me, when my wife and I joined the multicultural, multi-generational crowd cheering Bernie Sanders.
On...
The whole world is watching Donald Trump
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Since U.S. news plays prominently around the world, the question I am asked most often right now is what I think will happen...
‘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....
In 2016, it’s hope and understanding v. racism and fear
(Author’s Note: The following is part three of three “sound chapters” of Oklahomans’ oral histories about race collected in Every Point on the Map’s work...
Proposing more OKC charters a ‘high-stakes gamble’
When a new mass charterization plan was presented to the Oklahoma City Public School System Board of Education last week, “tempers flared … and...
