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Media go (truck) nuts for new Oklahoma license plate
Gov. Mary Fallin yanked a drape off a wide piece of flimsy metal Monday afternoon, a proverbial starter's pistol for media sprinting to get...
Paul Blair questions Oklahoma’s ‘future’ in bitter letter
After losing in Tuesday's GOP runoff, Edmond pastor Paul Blair asserted that Oklahoma "has got no future" in a defiant letter Wednesday evening issued through his advocacy organization,...
Revisiting the Piñata Store after one year of NonDoc
In August 2015, managing editor Josh "keistering" McBee and I spent much of our time trying to recondition our writing chops by putting pieces in...
Sundaze: ‘Time to study’ at the University of Oklahoma
'Time to study'
Over the course of my father's three decades teaching state history at the University of Oklahoma, he developed a stock joke — whenever OU lost its...
Sundaze: ‘Syria is a far-off place’
Plus Syria in Poetry
The Treaty
by Katie Williams
So you got locked up in the joint for smoking a joint and making a point, well that's just...
Sundaze: Sign drama & an equation with consequences
An equation with consequences
How to elect a fascist
(or) The Unified Theory of Mistakes
by Gary Reddin
(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual...
Sundaze: Terence Crutcher’s forest & ‘The rot in my yard’
The forest of Terence Crutcher's death
I've seen a lot of the "let's wait til the facts come out" mentality this week regarding the death...
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...
SQ 777 poses potentially ‘extreme’ price to pay
The latest OKC Pets Magazine displays an adorable cover photo of Hazel, who must be the second-cutest Australian shepherd I’ve ever seen (next to...
SmartHours ruling angers some, confuses most
In my adulthood, I have attended many public meetings and dug many nuggets of truth from the banks of complex civic process. Still, the...
