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The home stretch: A perpetual tourist’s last semester in Oklahoma
STILLWATER — My childhood taught me how to be a professional tourist. By my freshman year of high school, we had packed up and...
College football fun dampened by COVID-19 risks
I fully admit: I'm probably one of those people. This college football season, the University of Oklahoma, as well as most other universities around...
‘Don’t let weeds grow on my grave’: Poems on Gower Memorial...
The Gower Memorial Cemetery, in Edmond, is a living testimony to a family’s compassion that crossed racial barriers.
The cemetery of more than 500 plots...
Reaction to new councilman shows Norman polarization
If you weren't aware, Norman has been pretty much anything other than united in 2020. A series of events this summer in Oklahoma's third-largest...
It wasn’t Neese: An allegory for owning your audio
So the dust has settled, and the primaries are finally over. Here in Oklahoma, there were some shake-ups for local offices and a particularly...
You’re doing fine in the red zone, Oklahoma
It's crunch time. We've come all this way, and now we're in the "red zone." As plenty of people around here know, the red...
Snail mail: Slugging it out at the U.S. Postal Service
Who had "political fight over the post office" for the month of August? I can't find it on my 2020 bingo card, and I...
Norman elections always cause a flood of headlines
It's that time of year again: The time when Norman votes on something — anything really — and lots of wild discussion ensues. This...
Pandemic proves importance of new poll workers
The rituals of working an election are familiar to many poll workers: tear “I Voted” stickers off the roll, set out a big stock...
School 2020: Arts and crafts more like arts and masks
The school years is approaching for many children in the state of Oklahoma and around the country, but with a pandemic still among us,...
