Commentary

Bricktown continues to thrive, especially with the arrival of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, and new housing development in downtown around the Deep Deuce area foreshadows a bright future for the inner city. But there’s more to be accomplished. The Northeast 23rd Street Corridor Plan, if fully implemented, would improve a historic section of the […]

Bricktown continues to thrive, especially with the arrival of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, and new housing development in downtown around the Deep Deuce area foreshadows a bright future for the inner city. But there’s more to be accomplished. The Northeast 23rd Street Corridor Plan, if fully implemented, would improve a historic section of the […]

I always enjoy checking the mail. I’m a retired kind of guy. Strolling to the mailbox often highlights my day. I even like junk mail. I always think someone’s going to send me something important. (They rarely do.) On a recent trip out front, a letter from Cancer Care Associates in Oklahoma City caught my […]

It’s been a long wait for things to change in the city schools. After desegregation’s “white flight” devastated the district 40 years ago, many citizens have toiled through the years to rebuild the district. Nearly a decade ago, MAPS for Kids was organized, generating close to a billion dollars to rebuild the district’s aging infrastructure, […]

It’s been a long wait for things to change in the city schools. After desegregation’s “white flight” devastated the district 40 years ago, many citizens have toiled through the years to rebuild the district. Nearly a decade ago, MAPS for Kids was organized, generating close to a billion dollars to rebuild the district’s aging infrastructure, […]

I always enjoy checking the mail. I’m a retired kind of guy. Strolling to the mailbox often highlights my day. I even like junk mail. I always think someone’s going to send me something important. (They rarely do.) On a recent trip out front, a letter from Cancer Care Associates in Oklahoma City caught my […]

The mother of one of my congregants recently died of cancer. When the cancer was discovered, it had progressed to the point of being untreatable. She had been in pain for a while, but like many folk, just toughed it out. She didn’t go to a physician just to see what might be the problem […]

The mother of one of my congregants recently died of cancer. When the cancer was discovered, it had progressed to the point of being untreatable. She had been in pain for a while, but like many folk, just toughed it out. She didn’t go to a physician just to see what might be the problem […]

Any discussion over what to do about Oklahoma’s high incarceration rates must begin with the general acknowledgment the so-called “war on drugs” has been a failure here and across the country. Nationally, taxpayers pay about $69 billion on an annual basis to fund this war, first declared by former President Richard Nixon in 1971, according […]

Any discussion over what to do about Oklahoma’s high incarceration rates must begin with the general acknowledgment the so-called “war on drugs” has been a failure here and across the country. Nationally, taxpayers pay about $69 billion on an annual basis to fund this war, first declared by former President Richard Nixon in 1971, according […]