Commentary
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The doctor is out: Two threats to physicians’ offices
In my first commentary on NonDoc, I outlined my desire to examine the Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-Chase Bank collaborative to reform health care by breaking all...
Editorial: Oklahoma loosens grip on vices
After teachers filled the Oklahoma State Capitol this spring, they returned to classrooms having achieved a primary policy objective to move their state forward:...
Toad in the hole: Mushroom has long week
It's true, I've heard these jokes equating the Super Mario Brothers character Toad with a penis. I've heard them since I was very young, but...
Boom Town: Chaos and order at odds in OKC
The battle between chaos and control in Oklahoma City constitutes the main theme in Sam Anderson’s new book, Boom Town. As is true of Oklahoma...
Virtual charters need legislative cost-benefit analysis
In 2017, Oklahoma’s four virtual charter schools had an average daily membership of nearly 12,000 students, but there is no way of knowing how many...
Boom Town ‘the best advertising’ OKC has ever known
Sam Anderson's Boom Town (Penguin Random House, 2018) is a fascinating, perplexing book, a mash-up of Oklahoma City history and the doings of the NBA's...
From 1994 to 2018: Talking OK elections with Keith Gaddie
Few people in Oklahoma know more about political history, trends and shenanigans than OU professor Keith Gaddie.
In this episode of the How We Got...
OKC’s modern society is mural society
I happened to pass by the mural on the new building in the Plaza District the other day, and it got me thinking about...
Poetry from James Coburn: ‘Tribes of Indifference’
Tribes of Indifference
by James Coburn
All of the world is a terrorist to the land.
To people in the way of their vanity,
To interests made vague...
From Sept. 11 to Mollie Tibbetts: We must rise above our resentment
In mid-August 2001, my family planned a reunion gathering in Colorado. My only brother, David, and I both lived in New York City at...
