Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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off the rails

Things go off the rails at the Oklahoma Capitol

When I see a quote like, "It's disappointing that politics and gamesmanship are getting in the way of policy" coming from the Oklahoma Capitol,...
flood

A flood of news from Norman

(Editor's note: Cartoonist Mike Allen was a little busy being awesome this weekend, so your friendly editor in chief, Tres Savage, stepped in to...
hate has no home

Norman photos: ‘Hate has no home’ in my town

I tell my East Coast and West Coast friends that I live on a blue island in a red sea. That is the political...
Norman racism

People ‘disgusted’ with racist vandalism across Norman

More racist graffiti popped up in central Oklahoma overnight, with three locations in Norman vandalized with hateful messages. The Cleveland County Democratic Party headquarters, the...
Bradford Pear

The Bradford Pear needs to tone it down

The Bradford Pear tree has been in the news this spring, a lot. Just typing the name into Google results in pages and pages...
spring

Spring is for the opportunities, not the birds

Spring is here, and nice weather along with it. I've had a drastic change of heart toward the seasons recently, and I think it's...
a past preservedvideo

A past preserved: Watch this forgotten Oklahoma documentary

Embedded above, "Oklahoma: A Past Preserved" is a 12-minute film about the history of Oklahoma. Made in 1975 by the Oklahoma Historical Society, the...
Gene Rainbolt

At 90, Gene Rainbolt still causing change in Oklahoma

A print of Picasso’s “Don Quixote” leans against a wall alongside a second picture of the famous character in Gene Rainbolt’s downtown Oklahoma City...
St. Patrick's Day makes no sense

Snakes to green beer: St. Patrick’s Day makes no sense

Exactly how we went from snakes being driven out of Ireland to green beer, I'm not sure. Frankly, St. Patrick's Day makes no sense....
OU tepee vandalism

What if social media captured 1994 OU tepee vandalism?

The spring air still felt a little like winter as five Indigenous students of the University of Oklahoma slept inside a tepee during the early...

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