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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...
Editorial: SB 45 tried to address teacher sexual misconduct; it failed
Oklahoma has more than 500 independent school districts. If that seems like a lot, well, it is. Whatever action one district takes to address...
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...
Optometrists, Walmart prove the value of compromise
Back in November, I wrote an opinion piece discussing access to vision care issues in Oklahoma in the wake of State Question 793's narrow...
Daddy, which side were you on in the Chicken War?
Ah yes, the great Chicken War of 2019. I remember it well...because it's still happening. Full disclosure: I have tried exactly zero of the...
‘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...
Urban OKC chickens ready to live their best lives
The chickens are coming home to roost in Oklahoma City ... potentially.
That statement would normally mean bad things the city has done in the...
Jesus, please save us from your extremists
"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name,
he'd never stop throwing up."
— Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
I have...
Broad as moonlight: Lamenting the setting of The Edmond Sun
After the Setting Sun
by James Coburn
There was a hole in life
when The Edmond Sun was shuttered.
All those people, all the stories
I listened to, rest within...
Letter: SQ 777 more like ‘Right to Harm’
(Editor’s Note: The following Letters to the Editors refers to Jessica Willingham's Oct. 14 article Effects of agricultural regulations up in the air and Meredith...
