Commentary
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Like a troubled bridge over Northwest Expressway
Yes, I'm sure that more than a handful of people use the pedestrian bridge at Northwest Expressway and Wilshire Boulevard, but I couldn't give...
Here’s why labor unions are key to Oklahoma’s future
(Editor's note: NonDoc publishes commentaries from elected officials only when they are not in an active campaign. The following piece is from Rep. Mickey...
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...
Roundabouts: You spin me left-round, baby, left-round
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic. Nobody likes sitting at a red light.
Josh McBee (managing editor here at NonDoc) taught me the term “punishment...
Leon Russell: Master of space and time
TULSA, Oklahoma — Leon Russell died at the age of 74 on Sunday. Russell was a creative juggernaut who was able to cultivate an epic...
I still breastfeed my 2-year-old (and it’s fine)
I’m a mom. My little bear is 26 months old. He is a Taurus. He’s spirited. He likes choo-choo trains, clocks, baby bell cheese...
Too fast or too slow? Criminal justice reform 50 years in making
To understand the scope of the crisis Oklahoma faces because we lead the nation — and the world — in incarceration, consider this: If Oklahoma...
Chilling, historical poetry: Oklahoma lynching
(Editor's Note: The following poem is from author James Coburn's book, Words of Rain.)
Oklahoma Lynching
by James Coburn
Mosquitoes tasted blood of white men
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder across...
Education funding: A tale of two governors’ failures
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Wednesday's news that Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is considering a special session for the purpose of passing a teacher-pay raise reminded me —...
Editorial: Oklahoma House achieving bipartisan calamity
As Oklahoma House Republican leaders prepared for a Friday committee vote on the compromise revenue package that included an oil-industry tax hike, they cobbled...
