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Innovation in education requires smart implementation
Much discussion and controversy surround education in Oklahoma. Differing needs for urban and rural schools, a changing economy, and a lagging state budget have...
As special session starts, Stitt asked to sit with Senate
(Editor's note: The following preview of the Oklahoma Legislature's second special session of 2023 opens the Oct. 2 edition of NonDoc's Monday Minute newsletter.)
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Two ‘no-brainers’ for fixing Oklahoma’s budget crisis
The theme of the Oklahoma Policy Institute’s third annual State Budget Summit could have been the exhortation by the institute’s outreach and advocacy specialist,...
Moving back, moving forward: Why I came to NonDoc
My connection to Oklahoma began in 2004, when I came here for college. I grew up in Colorado and had been lured to OU...
Feet in two worlds: The American Indian, cowboy hybrid
The Native American is historically pedigreed. Its bloodlines bound through hundreds of years and generations, and lopes straight as I-40. Not so with the...
Letter: Parental rights advocate addresses vaccine cartoon
(Editor’s note: NonDoc runs Letters to the Editors between 300 words and 500 words in response to previously published content. NonDoc reserves the right...
When it comes to small towns, Tuttle takes the cake
TUTTLE — A live cake auction is no place for amateurs.
Seated in the back row of the Tuttle High School auditorium Saturday night, NonDoc...
Virtual learning oversight: ‘Riding a donkey into the space age’
Earlier this month, I met with three administrators at the Oklahoma State Department of Education who have been wrestling with accountability issues for virtual...
John Bennett as state GOP chairman threatens progress for Oklahoma Muslims
This is the first week of the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset and strive to shed bad habits....
Sooners aren’t causing your ‘transgenerational trauma’
Jumping the Shark is an idiom "used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in...
