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David Walters: ‘Please don’t do this’
I was assigned recently in my church the honor of one of the readings during the mass. From 2 Timothy, it read in part:
be...
Giant Woody Guthrie projected onto Oklahoma Capitol
This Capitol is your Capitol, this Capitol is my Capitol.
That's the bastardized ditty I hum to myself every time I experience plumbing problems and drive two miles...
The musical ‘Oklahoma!’ is still bogus after 75 years
The musical Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. Seventy-five years have passed, and Oklahomans are still much taken with the dear old thing.
Richard Rodgers...
Here’s looking at you, me: The two jobs of Ryan Walters
(Update: Ryan Walters tendered his resignation from Every Kid Counts Oklahoma, according to a report late Sunday from The Frontier. The post below remains...
Silenced Cries: A poem on the Tulsa Race Riot
Silenced Cries
by James Coburn
I don’t remember the terror in Greenwood.
I wasn’t there. Never was it taught to me in history books.
1921 burning of the...
David Walters: Partisan ideology takes its toll on budget
Watching the demise of Oklahoma's state-government services (public education, health care, corrections, infrastructure funding and mental health, to name a few) is similar to...
Them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong
After this past week, one has to wonder if Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto pen has any ink left in it. One after another, bills...
Sonic seltzer: The Oklahoma collaboration we didn’t know we needed
So maybe this is why we don't see those two guys in the Sonic commercials anymore? They never could keep from indulging in every...
Anti-intellectualism rises on the left
San Marcos, TEXAS — Perhaps this is not new, but a strong tide laps at our proverbial shores: The rise of anti-intellectualism ... among...
Allan Grubb: I’m a district attorney, and I support SQ 805
More than 260,000 Oklahomans signed an initiative petition to call for a vote on State Question 805, which would eliminate repeat-sentencing penalties for nonviolent...
