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Big Man on Campus: Ryan Minor made memories at OU
In the spring of 1995, Ryan Minor gave my grandmother a hug.
Minor was a two-sport star at the University of Oklahoma, in basketball and...
Just the sip: ABLE Commission mixes a bitter beverage
Given their general behavior, past and present, I like to think the Oklahoma ABLE Commission offices look somewhat like the comic above: Dark, drab,...
Oklahoma Legislature: Robbing Peter to pay Paul
"Kicking the can down the road" is a phrase often used for the Oklahoma Legislature’s annual avoidance of making tough decisions about the state...
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...
Two-buck suck: Nielsen killed their own radio survey
The Nielsen company is likely the best-known media ratings entity in America. It solicits people to record their programming preferences in a one-week diary...
Cockfighting fight turns back time at Oklahoma Capitol
Feathers are flying in the Oklahoma Legislature again, and this time it's over an old topic — cockfighting — that has been born anew...
Nonprofit news outlets: A growing, integral part of Oklahoma’s journalism landscape
The nonprofit news sector is rapidly expanding in Oklahoma, providing more evidence of a remarkable shift in the landscape of American journalism.
Two recent developments...
Silenced Cries: A poem on the Tulsa Race Riot
Silenced Cries
by James Coburn
I don’t remember the terror in Greenwood.
I wasn’t there. Never was it taught to me in history books.
1921 burning of the...
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...
‘This is a BFD’: The romance of nuclear fusion heats up
Ah, the holday season, when bells are ringing, children are singing and nuclear attraction is in the air.
That's right, the U.S. Department of Energy...
