A conversation between two ordinary people about their community happened next. Mostly, Shadid just listened — patiently. At the end of our conversation, for the very first time in my 50-plus years, I knew a political candidate had listened to what I said. Not only did Shadid win a landmark victory over an opponent that […]
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H2OMG!
Clay Pope Credit: Mark Hancock Oklahoma bears the scars of the Dust Bowl paradoxically, celebrating the courage and perseverance of those who lived through it and simultaneously obsessing about whether lingering impressions from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath sully the state’s image. But we’re all clear on one thing: The Dust Bowl remains in […]
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Once upon a time on Paseo
John Belt Mark Hancock Nestled between N.W. 28th Street and N. Walker Avenue, to N.W. 30th Street and N. Dewey Avenue and encompassing an elegant, curving street and fanciful Spanish Revival architecture, The Spanish Village shopping center made its debut in 1929 on the cusp of the Great Depression. In those early days, Nichols couldn’t […]
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Leader of the Pack
The people of the Iroquois Confederacy are one of the world’s oldest living democracies, predating the United States of America by as much as 500 years. One of the Confederacy’s principles is described by Chief Oren Lyons thusly: “Our leaders were instructed to be men of vision and to make every decision on behalf of […]