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broadband office meeting minutes

Oklahoma’s Broadband Office and the mystery of missing meeting minutes

Among the many technologies we enjoy in the modern world, and perhaps take for granted, I think broadband internet access may be the most...
progressive musicians

Oklahoma’s progressive musicians bring politics to stage

Gregg Standridge was a teen high school dropout in south Oklahoma City when he “borrowed” a Woody Guthrie songbook from the public library. He learned...
Gentner Drummond the gambler

Sick of Stitt hammering the machine, Drummond seeks a spin

Good help is hard to come by, they say, even when it's from the most prominent attorney in the state. Attorney General Gentner Drummond recently...
Bob Funk Jr

Q&A: Bob Funk Jr. — ‘Soccer can unify a community ‘

Bob Funk Jr. is perhaps best known as the owner of Oklahoma City's Energy FC. Before that, Funk Jr. was the owner of another...
proverbial pizza

PPP helps keep the proverbial pizza cooking

I admit that looking through spreadsheets isn't exactly my definition of a good time, but browsing the list of Oklahoma businesses that received federal...
MLK quote

MLK Jr. Day: ‘Somewhere I read’

"All we say to America is: be true to what you say on paper" — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968, at the Mason...
KKK list

As promised, Anonymous collective releases ‘KKK list’

At about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the loosely organized hacker collective Anonymous released a list of names it claims have ties to the Ku Klux...
new northeast OKC grocery store

Homeland plans new northeast OKC grocery store

Amid turmoil over food access in Oklahoma City's historically black neighborhoods, Homeland announced this morning that it has signed a letter of intent to...
assault on the Capitol

Some call the assault on the Capitol unprecedented, but we have seen this before

I’ve been writing about Oklahoma’s place in the American master narrative for a while now. My sense that we’re the repository for the nation’s...
Falls Creek rape

Beyond legalities in the Falls Creek rape case

(Correction: This piece was updated at 3:55 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, to note that the attorney actions referenced in the civil case below were...

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