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New depths of boredom after a year with COVID
We have had a year with COVID, huh?
I can hardly wrap my head around it, frankly, and if you were to ask me what...
Bad democracy: GOP, Libertarian candidates fail to answer questions
During the first week of October, we sent a half-dozen questions to 28 candidates in 13 races predominantly centered around Oklahoma City. Little did...
OK’s ‘insane’ mental health system parallels education
The Oklahoman’s Graham Lee Brewer began his report on the Oklahoma Mental Health Forum with the words of OKC Police Capt. Jeff Pierce, who...
A serious conversation about Oklahoma education
With a teachers’ strike now looming and a state Legislature that appears incapable of figuring out how to fund a teacher pay raise, perhaps...
Monster tax credits: Fear and filming in deadCenter 2019
While the 2019 deadCenter Film Festival officially kicked off on Thursday, June 6, one could argue Gov. Kevin Stitt unofficially began the festivities May...
Maybe Oklahoma’s poor who need Medicaid can move to Arkansas
FAIRFIELD BAY, Ark. — I have taken the time to provide a summary of The Oklahoman editorial board's riveting drivel: Declining Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma proving...
Kirk Humphreys highlights service paradox in governance
(Correction: This commentary was updated at 12:00 p.m., Friday, Jan. 26, to correct references to personal property ownership, specifically as it relates to the...
Dead air: World Series finale absent from OKC radio
While trying not to text in my car Sunday evening, I furiously scanned local FM and AM radio stations.
To my dismay, Game 5 of the 2015 World...
This year’s OKCPS to-do list has at least 30 big items
As students and teachers come out of fall break and wait anxiously for Thanksgiving break, perhaps it is a good time to remember that...
OKC needs an art-house theater for top-10 films of 2016
Oklahoma City needs an independent art-house theater, because the top-10 films of 2016 deserve an audience but might not find a venue in which to play here.
In...