Commentary
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Being ‘The Boss’: An alpha female reflects on single life
At first, it was my friend’s all-caps, double-exclamation-mark Facebook post that motivated me to look closer at the article she was sharing. But then...
From worm to hand: Lessons of the oil patch
On my first day in the Oklahoma oil fields in 1978, working as a roughneck, the sum of my training was:
“Either of you worms...
Boardwalk at Bricktown serves up hot pie in the sky
While it started out as a curious and perhaps even humorous building proposal, the fantastical concept of the Boardwalk at Bricktown development has now...
Confederate flag rally touts heritage, ignores reality
SHAWNEE, Oklahoma — I have more than a half-dozen direct ancestors who lived in Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi and fought for the South....
The ‘Machete Order’ for X-Men: One fan’s guide
It’s hard to imagine another franchise whose filmography is as intimidating to newcomers as Star Wars. So, in 2011, blogger Rod Hilton devised a...
Columbine and the ‘Year from Hell’ at John Marshall
This year’s 19th anniversary of the April 20, 1999, Columbine mass murders renewed anxieties surrounding gun violence in the nation’s political consciousness, especially coupled...
Sasha Ndisabiye: Heritage ignited journalistic passion
I grew up in an academic household, where table conversations were filled with debates and car rides to school consisted of NPR’s daily morning...
While dirty details remain, Edmond sculpture park proposal has good movement
At last, it seems "common ground" is being found on the proposed Uncommon Ground Sculpture Park in Edmond.
After a year of disagreement and drama...
An ode to Meatballs: The summer I learned to laugh
Sometime in late June 1979, my dad dropped me and a friend off at the Spectrum Twin movie theater in south Tulsa for a...
‘Genuine dispute’: Where things stand in NonDoc v. OU
As the child of University of Oklahoma academics and an OU journalism graduate myself, I never thought I would file a lawsuit against my...
