Digging out and moving forward in 2025
As 2025 approaches, we are still here? I could have sworn I heard someone, somewhere say we wouldn't be at this point.
Nevertheless, we persist.
I've...
Santa Claus coming to town before Bricktown tower
Scot Matteson better watch out and neither cry nor pout, because Santa Claus is coming to town.
Everyone knows Santa has to fly over a...
Birthday Rant: Celebrating 40 years with 40 gripes
One day at the Bunker Club, Bennett Brinkman and I brainstormed the idea of a Birthday Rant — a commentary series to introduce NonDoc's...
First Amendment warning: 100% chance of Ryan Walters tweeting
It turns out (again) that the Constitution does matter.
This past week, a federal judge approved a settlement in KFOR's lawsuit alleging that Superintendent of...
Ka-chow: Stitt cans McQueen in lightning move
When it comes to chicken waste, there's no mistaking its presence. The sights and smells are a dead giveaway.
When it comes to a court hearing...
Melvin Moran: Seminole’s oil man with a heart of gold
SEMINOLE — Melvin Moran has spent a lifetime proving true riches lie not in the black gold beneath the earth, but in the philanthropy...
OMC’s news literacy campaign promotes local reporting
When I left the newspaper industry, a local business owner told me a secret.
His confession? This fellow citizen knew how to read the local...
Bye week blues underscore a world without Bedlam
The 2024 college football season has been less than ideal for Oklahoma's two largest universities.
The Sooners and Cowboys are struggling, to put it mildly....
Garbage politics: Almost done with mailer madness
Are we there yet?
This election season sure has felt like a cross-country road trip with screaming children in the back seat asking for votes...
Court opinions: Judicial retention put to the test
You may have heard — in every commercial break for the past month — that an election is rapidly approaching.
Locally, it's clear which races...