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Editorial: Encouraging pipeline repairs should be bipartisan
If you missed two pieces by the Tulsa Frontier on hazardous spills related to oil and gas production, check them out here and here.
Both...
Sundazed: Medical marijuana and the Drug War
Comic First
Poems Second
Drug War Delenda Est
by Derek Geiger
Black Lives Matter,
While white thoughts scatter
As they search for a retort.
Hear the chatter,
Ignore blood splatter,
Longing for their day in...
‘Too much at stake’ to trust Trump’s foreign policies
In his famous 1947 article called The Sources of Soviet Conduct, diplomat and historian George Kennan sought to describe the way the Soviet Union...
Hangover Highlights: I admit that I jinx the home team
I attended my first in-person college football game since 2018 this weekend.
There I was, waltzing into the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium...
Photos: A Saturday afternoon in September
NORMAN, Okla. — Saturday, Sept. 17, was a busy day in Norman.
Probably no one consulted with Bob Stoops about it being a good day for...
Poems from Kuwait: ‘Of Pure Pressure and Pure Pleasure’
Of Pure Pressure And Pure Pleasure
by Ndaba Sibanda
The heart and blood
of untainted beauty
Nature's adrenaline
for low blood pressure
The sight is the rate that
sings songs of wonder
Exciting...
Breaking: Fake news is fake (but what can you do?)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In middle school, I went swimming in the ocean for the first time, and I managed to get caught in the...
Letter: Fallin should veto bills that hurt blind Oklahomans
To the editors:
Why are House and Senate legislators passing legislation that hurts blind Oklahomans — especially seniors? There is no reason to contract services...
A very merry NonDoc holiday and office-warming party
Love 'em or hate 'em, the holidays are upon us. And quite honestly, we enjoy any occasion that encourages the gathering of people, the...
Sundaze: ‘Syria is a far-off place’
Plus Syria in Poetry
The Treaty
by Katie Williams
So you got locked up in the joint for smoking a joint and making a point, well that's just...