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Mixed messaging on masks still makes no sense

Mike Allen - Sunday, November 15, 2020

I feel like I've drawn this comic before, but then again I feel like I've heard Gov. Kevin Sitt's Tuesday press conference before as...

Good riddance, Rep. Dan Kirby

Tres Savage - Tuesday, December 27, 2016

(Editor's note: Late on Wednesday, Dec. 28, Rep. Dan Kirby rescinded the resignation he had announced days earlier. The following editorial was written after...

Proxy family: The lights and sounds of thank you

Michael Duncan - Saturday, April 4, 2020

The flashing lights and car horns delivered a message. A message from the parking lot to the building. The message came from dozens of people sitting...

Sooners homer wearing Eagles green on Sundays

Bryan Smith - Saturday, September 12, 2015

In the interest of full disclosure, let me just say I’m a lifelong Sooner fan. I’m a homer. I wear crimson-colored contacts in case...

TV news host calls out Capitol press corps

Josh McBee, Editor Emeritus - Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The workers' compensation story that NPR and ProPublica released last week caught the attention of KOKC 1520's Scott Mitchell. As host of News 9's Sunday...

Protest photography: Tears, trauma, party and problems

Michael Duncan - Tuesday, June 2, 2020

About 2 a.m. Monday, I crawled into bed and called it a day. And what a day it had been. Sunday afternoon, I had photographed...

It wasn’t Neese: An allegory for owning your audio

Mike Allen - Sunday, August 30, 2020

So the dust has settled, and the primaries are finally over. Here in Oklahoma, there were some shake-ups for local offices and a particularly...

Sunday Funday: With others ‘losing,’ Trump says, ‘Hadouken!’

Mike Allen and Katie Williams - Sunday, September 20, 2015

(Editor's Note: To submit poetry, prose, short stories, art or other creative writing for Sunday Funday, please write to editorial@nondoc.com.) Losing Why do people say she's...