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Sunday Funday: New definitions, baseball and Short Order Poems
To Honor The Season by Andy Bowen
Every spring we play ball
From the Dodgers to the Sox
We never keep score.
When the grass is green
Enough to stain...
Love in the time of Google
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — What would Cinderella’s story look like in 2015?
In such a modern-day fairytale, our heroine might swap glass slippers for Louboutins, might be...
Racial divide widens under Austin’s whitening
AUSTIN, Texas — The millennials have spoken. They have chosen this proudly odd capital city as their own, flooding it with startups and sustaining a...
Local media mishandle panhandling headlines
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of panhandlers in OKC's medians, local media love it. It's that perfect combination of public awareness...
Thirty pages from the Watonga Republican
I wrote Monday about various oddities and tidbits found in the Beckham County Record-Democrat.
One thing I didn't have time to mention is how interesting...
Vital Conversations: Truth seekers can lose arguments
(Editor's Note: Vital Conversations is a running series of commentaries from various faith leaders. The series is sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary, though many...
Meet George Milburn, a forgotten Oklahoma writer
Oklahoma produced several writers of note during the 1930s, when the state was thought to yield only dust and immigrants. Most of them were...
Rep: Criminal-justice reform deserves bipartisan support
The attention surrounding criminal justice reform has never been greater. More and more stakeholders believe decades of "tough-on-crime" policies have been as tough on...
A tale of two festivals
I wish Open Streets OKC could be more like WestFest.
Both festivals are billed as family-friendly, all-day events. Both seek to highlight the growing walkability...
School bonds, meth and football: The Record-Democrat
One of my favorite pastimes is perusing the pages of local newspapers, big and small.
Maybe it’s the journalist in me, but something always tickles...
