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School choice: Sen. Loveless advances ‘factually incorrect’ ideology
State Sen. Kyle Loveless (R-OKC) performed a great service to the voting public by revealing his thought processes on school choice and other issues in...
Oklahoma’s Broadband Office and the mystery of missing meeting minutes
Among the many technologies we enjoy in the modern world, and perhaps take for granted, I think broadband internet access may be the most...
City Sentinel’s double pug obituaries confuse pug lover
Ivy Jane was a President Obama supporter. What exactly did Ivy like about our 44th president? Was it his health care initiative? Maybe his...
MLK Jr. Day: ‘Somewhere I read’
"All we say to America is: be true to what you say on paper"
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968, at the Mason...
Editorial: Proposed OU regent Gary Pierson to face thorough vetting
The Oklahoma State Senate intends to step up and provide thorough vetting of Gov. Kevin Stitt's latest nomination to the OU Board of Regents:...
Beyond legalities in the Falls Creek rape case
(Correction: This piece was updated at 3:55 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, to note that the attorney actions referenced in the civil case below were...
The Oklahoma congressman who believed he was Jesus
Manuel Herrick (1876-1952) represented Oklahoma in Congress for a single term, which, in the minds of some, was one term too many. But it...
Some call the assault on the Capitol unprecedented, but we have seen this before
I’ve been writing about Oklahoma’s place in the American master narrative for a while now. My sense that we’re the repository for the nation’s...
Editorial: Geneva Smith, 84-year-old pepper sprayed by Muskogee police, deserved better
Fox 23 out of Tulsa has obtained and published Muskogee Police Department body-camera footage that shows an officer pepper spraying 84-year-old Geneva Smith inside her...
Turkish writer: Easier for Enes Kanter to become Enes Gülen in the U.S.
ISTANBUL — Enes Kanter, a center for the Oklahoma City Thunder, was recently disowned by his family for following and backing the so-called cleric Fethullah...