Located in the heart of Midtown, Palomar has been the central hub for victim services in Oklahoma City for nearly a decade. Collaborating with 44 partner organizations, Palomar has served over 29,000 clients over the last eight years — survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, stalking, elder abuse and human trafficking. Named after […]
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County circus
The City of Norman is having a rough year, and not just because of the University of Oklahoma’s inaugural season in the SEC (Southeastern Conference). Rather, 2025’s forecast has been as bad as one could expect when trying to weather the storm when federal funding for national weather services is being cut. With the two […]
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Prognosis negative
While the month of May has been Mental Health Awareness Month for nearly 75 years, things could not be in more disarray at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS). As the Oklahoma House of Representatives continues to investigate the department’s massive shortfalls on top of a nearly $610 million budget, […]
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Church of Oklahoma
Okies may be acclimated to bad weather, but when it rains, it pours. Ushering in the new month, Gov. Kevin Stitt issued a groundbreaking executive order in support of “religious freedom.” Oklahoma.gov proclaimed it’s going to “make Oklahoma the strongest defender of religious liberty in the nation,” but Executive Order 2025-08 shakes the very foundation […]
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Leave it to Deevers
As always, the “Reddest State in the Union” continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. From The Independent to Rolling Stone, Oklahoma has come under fire due to the newly formed Oklahoma Freedom Caucus. Oklahoma is the 12th state to join the State Freedom Caucus Network, and the far-right political group seeks to […]
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History repeating
Ironically, the same religious conflicts within government leadership go back to biblical times. As the legislative and judicial assembly of elders, the Sanhedrin of the Second Temple of Jerusalem was divided between the conservative Pharisees and the secular Sadducees. Branching off of the Pharisees were the radical Zealots who opposed foreign influence and as the […]
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April runoffs
New leadership in the Oklahoma City metro will be determined on April 1. While most may think of election season as being in November, the results of Oklahoma’s primary elections on Feb. 11 are now followed by a handful of runoffs for various local state and county positions where candidates did not receive over 50% […]
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Boondoggle capital
In Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, cowboy Will Parker returns home and gathers everybody around to tell about the wonders of the “modern world” in the show tune “Kansas City,” singing that, “They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high / About as high as a buildin’ orta grow.” The Territory times are long gone. […]
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Under investigation
While Oklahoma tends to drift toward the very bottom ranking in national education, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is currently at the top of news headlines regarding two recent investigations launched against him by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission. The commission is often regarded as an organization lacking in resources, but the State Ethics […]
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GOP draft
While the new year brings new changes and new challenges, it would seem that there is nothing new under the sun in Oklahoma. As the 2024 election cycle showed, Oklahoma remains deeply entrenched as quite possibly the reddest state in the union. Yet throughout January, straight out of the gate, Oklahoma made multiple national headlines […]