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All the government Oklahoma could ever want
The old phrase "You learn something new every day!" still applies to me, and probably many others no matter how old we get. For...
‘What we fear to fear’: a pandemic diary
April 28, 2020
Outside Wanette
Thunder rolls from the west into Pottawatomie County. Emmylou Harris is playing. Emmy and I have spent a lot of down...
Caring for the environment can help you get through the pandemic
To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, this Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone’s needs but not everyone’s greed.
As an environmentalist and a minimalist, I cannot help...
‘Gray days are the hardest’: a pandemic diary
4.21.20
Norman
Gray days are the hardest.
On days when the sun shines, we are out walking, dogs on leashes, mothers and dads pushing strollers, helmeted kids...
Open sesame: Kevin Stitt and the 40 mayors
You can hear it faintly in the distance: A call from the governor's OKC residences, or perhaps his home in Tulsa, to slowly re-open...
‘We must act’: Earth Day in the time of pandemic
In the fall of 2019, the journalist David Corn wrote in Mother Jones about a mental health crisis among climate scientists, who...
‘The earth rocked’: A diary from the day of the Oklahoma City bombing
It doesn’t feel like it has been 25 years. Much has happened since then, but the morning of April 19, 1995, is still stuck...
Parents agree: The Easter bunny is an essential worker
A big shout out to all the essential workers doing their thing right now. I know working through a pandemic isn't a situation people...
Remembering Alton Gore: It was hard. It was unfair. It was a funeral during a pandemic.
SEILING — When my grandmother, Lavon Gore, died in early March, every pew in the local Methodist church was full. Many other people, unable...
COVID-19 drive-up testing site offers snapshot of history
If you saw me Thursday, you probably got tested for COVID-19.
The only time I left the house was to visit the drive-up testing facility...
