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That time we were a ‘porno’ site
During the December doldrums when some media spend a great deal of ink "covering" obscure, radical and/or unlikely-to-advance bills filed early by legislators, I'd...
‘Intense’ experiences at Moon highlight KIPP’s limitations
The controversy over the proposal to expand the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), starting with the takeover of a neighborhood school building, prompted me...
High school junior: ‘Oklahoma is failing its students’
Whispers among the students and faculty of Classen School of Advanced Studies have gotten louder in recent days, but this buzz does not entail...
Death and poverty: Thank God for Alabama?
Last year's landmark study, The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children, by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren and Lawrence Katz, documented the vast disparities in...
100 percent chance of Purple Rain: A poem on Prince
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
Muslims must ‘participate’ in U.S. democracy
The underlying stigma and hatred of Islam perpetuated by national political contenders like Donald Trump has left the 3.3 million Muslims in this country vulnerable...
Oklahoma Standard ‘a myth’
I've always been a stickler for the truth.
As a kid, I don't remember ever believing in Santa Claus, but I do remember becoming exasperated...
Photos: Norman Music Fest 9 people watching
NORMAN — April was Norman Music Festival month. This year was the ninth iteration of the three-day smorgasbord of sound.
NMF attracts thousands of fans...
Spurs series is Billy Donovan’s biggest test yet
The Oklahoma City Thunder did the expected and dispatched with the Dallas Mavericks in a fashion perhaps best described by Monty Python’s Black Knight:
The...
Hostility punctuates OKCPS community meetings
Teaching in the inner city is tough, and it can be as exasperating as it is joyous. Nobody is perfect, and I could recount...
