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A comical look: NonDoc’s 2015 Sunday Funday review
With 653 like votes since August 2006, Urban Dictionary's top user-submitted definition of Sunday Funday definitely encapsulates some of the impetus behind the weekend tradition...
Editorial: Stop killing each other
Yet another week begins with American tragedy, as three police officers were shot and killed in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday.
The attack — called...
In writing on Charlie Christian, Ralph Ellison reveals guitarist’s influence
TULSA — Oklahoma City's Charlie Christian revolutionized the way people play the guitar. He shepherded it out of the anonymity of the rhythm section...
State taking ‘baby steps’ in stemming quake activity
A 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Cushing on Tuesday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Cushing is home to the world’s largest crude...
School choice forum: OCPA president spouts post-truths
The Oklahoma Watch-Out: School Choice edition on Feb. 28 came to an angry conclusion (see video above) after Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs' Jonathan Small presented...
Letter: Physician says benefits of immunization far outweigh risks
(Editor’s note: NonDoc runs Letters to the Editors between 300 words and 500 words in response to previously published content. NonDoc reserves the right...
Rilla Askew’s new book dubs Oklahoma ‘Most American’
Earlier this month, the University of Oklahoma Press published award-winning novelist Rilla Askew's first nonfiction book, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place. In...
Oklahoma’s Mission of Mercy: ‘We need more access to dental care’
WOODWARD — It’s always jarring to see hundreds of people lined up at dawn for health care in the world’s richest nation.
Friday night, I traveled...
Mixon video: Public’s right to know versus need to know
With the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling today that Norman law enforcement must release 2014 surveillance footage of OU running back Joe Mixon hitting then-OU...
From wipes to swipes, social (distance) life impacted
With the spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent cancelling of just about every event for the next two months, I was thinking it would...
