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On World AIDS Day, longtime HIV carrier considers progress
LOS ANGELES — On this World AIDS Day, I will enter my 40th year of living with HIV. I have seen a lot over those...
Stop ignoring early education findings from the 1970s
Across the nation, the post-election transition period has proven to be just as angry as our bitter election, which is likely to be followed by...
KOCO pats former legislator on head for soda tax idea
Tuesday, Oklahoma House Democratic media flack Mike Ray distributed a 1,200-word press release to promote an idea being recirculated by a former state legislator.
Hours...
South Carolinian’s poems conjure views of the South
Tell A Tale of Cotton
by Robert Filos
blue jeans growing in October fields
the Georgia sky singing the blues
red dirt roads pave sights with color
as turkeys...
Out of the box ideas for feds to force REAL ID compliance
I've written multiple times about Oklahoma's REAL ID Act compliance situation, and each time it has been a veritable nightmare of government officials not knowing...
Hobbled Russia still managing to play Donald Trump
UNKEN, Austria — It has been rightly suggested by one of my colleagues at the University of Oklahoma that I give too much credit...
‘I no longer have time to shuck and jive around white fragility’
There is something about buying a pregnancy test from Dollar Tree that makes you value life a little differently. Only a few days prior,...
Resident #oklaed wonk endorses OKCPS candidates
I try to limit my writing to what I know: research and practice in urban education.
I also seek to limit myself to policy —...
The boogers of public policy: Where to put them?
Ever wonder why policy people are often warned to avoid picking their noses? It's because, if they pull out a booger, they’ll have to find...
What if every Oklahoman bought a Powerball ticket?
With Oklahoma's current leadership declaring 2016 a revenue failure and facing a nearly $900 million shortfall for next year's budget, it's time to look somewhere else to fund...
