News
Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoman and its parent company, OPUBCO, is to be sold in early October, after more than a century of ownership by the Gaylord family, the paper announced Sept. 15.

Letters to the Editor
Douglas Mock, Joseph Thai and Tom Boyd
Two “new” bills filed with the state Legislature recently are dog-eared twin parcels of anti-science boilerplate based on model language from the creationist Discovery Institute (in Seattle). This is an annual rite of winter: Legislative sponsors proclaim laudable goals (“academic freedom” and “critical thinking”) with a wink and nod that fool no one except perhaps innocent schoolchildren. The goal is to promote the teaching of religion as science in public school science classrooms.