Commentary
Kurt Hochenauer
Oklahomans who cared about maintaining science standards in schools paid close attention to a bill introduced by state Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, which would have allowed teachers to discuss with t...

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Chris Smith
The Oklahoma Legislature is once again taking up the issue of smoking in public places. State Sen. David Myers, R-Ponca City, has authored a bill that would ban smoking in most every bar and restauran...

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Scott Jones
In a speech to a John Birch Society-sponsored event reported Feb. 4, 2009, in Oklahoma Gazette, state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, pronounced that she had discovered the "gay agenda." There is a ...

Commentary
Vince Orza
At Channel 5 in the 1980s, I interviewed Roger Dale Stafford, one of Oklahoma's most notorious serial killers. Like almost everyone on death row, Roger proclaimed his innocence until his execution. Ye...

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Kyle Loveless
Here we go again. The powers that be in Oklahoma County have determined the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill of a new detention center, to the tune of millions of dollars. I can hear...

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Keith Gaddie
The decline of the giant shopping mall is in full swing. There are 1,100 shopping malls in the US, and they are not doing so well. Crossroads Mall, which is now without a single anchor store, will soo...

Commentary
Bill Bleakley
As part of Oklahoma Gazette's 30th anniversary year celebration during 2009, commentaries will occasionally reflect on our newspaper and publishing company. This commentary is about our independence. ...

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Scott Jones
What we should really be afraid of is those who support governmental control of our bodies. Don't be fooled, because that's what many of the falsely called "pro-life" members of our Legislature are af...

Commentary
Chris Smith
The Oklahoma Legislature is poised to once again address a number of abortion-related issues this spring. And, while no issue has defined the two major political parties in this country over the last ...

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Mark Hanebutt
The news business in Oklahoma is committing suicide. The journalistic bloodletting that is leaving a trail of dead and dying newspapers and anemic broadcast stations across the country continued last...

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Steve Fair
In May 2008, Sen. John Ford, R-Bartlesville, authored a bill that would have required anyone who voted in Oklahoma have proper identification. Ford's bill did not even require a photo ID " a utility b...

Commentary
Kurt Hochenauer
Now is exactly the time for state government to invest more in higher education, but don't count on a majority of Oklahoma leaders to see it this way. Faced with projections of declining state revenu...

Commentary
Keith Gaddie
Michael Tomasky, American editor of London's The Guardian newspaper's U.S.-centered Web site, made a set of three suggestions to guide the Obama administration's effort to broaden its support. The fir...

Commentary
Ron Black
Everyone is doing it and it feels really good. We all love to peer into the crystal ball and attempt to predict what will happen politically in the upcoming year. Your not-so-humble commentator is no ...

Commentary
Scott Jones
Some Oklahoma legislators seem to have fantasies of the Wild West.  On Wednesday, Dec. 17, Rep. Eric Proctor, D-Tulsa, and Sen. Kenneth Corn, D-Poteau, announced they would be introducing legis...