Sep 10-16, 2014

Sep 10-16, 2014 / Vol. 36 / No. 36

Commentary: Are college grads workforce-ready?

Graduating college is a rite of passage. College graduates have spent the last four to seven years (depending on the patience of their parents) of their lives diligently studying, cultivating relationships and preparing for their bright futures. This is what college graduates tell themselves and, in most cases, their parents. But are they really ready…

Commentary: Seeking acceptance in America’s heartland

I, like countless other Oklahomans and Americans, will never forget where I was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Like a typical college student, I was still asleep when news broke of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York. I was alarmed when my mother flung the door open to my room,…

Letters to the editor: Sept. 10, 2014

Obama could halt violence In reply to the letter featured in your Aug. 20 issue from Michael Hopkins (News, Letters to the editor, “Ignorance isn’t bliss,” Aug. 20, Oklahoma Gazette): Saddam Hussein violated the 1991 Ceasefire Agreement repeatedly throughout the Clinton administration, but that feckless politician did nothing as Iraqi air defense gunners threatened to…


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