Remember your first job out of high school and how bad you probably sucked at it? With that in mind, let’s take a look at this Nov. 30 Oklahoma Watch story about Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ latest idea to recruit more officers for its understaffed prisons. “In a little-noticed action, the Oklahoma Board of Corrections […]
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Commentary: Blocked intersections
On Dec. 19, U.S. district judge Joe Heaton ruled that Oklahoma City’s anti-panhandling ordinance is constitutional. The ordinance, as it was originally written, was designed to clear medians of individuals asking for money at OKC’s busy intersections, but after receiving pushback from organizations that work with the city’s homeless as well as a lawsuit from […]
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Letters to the Editor: Nov. 29, 2017
‘What if we broadened our idea of monuments to the volunteers and organizations that actually do the daily toil of helping Americans and defending their rights?’
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Chicken-Fried News: Hobby Bible Lobby
The Green family’s Museum of the Bible opened recently despite all of the trouble Hobby Lobby has run into in the last few years.
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Metro schools take steps to protect the rights of LGBTQ students
Many Oklahoma school districts don’t have protections in place and put students and staff at risk for discrimination.
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10 years on, The Lost Ogle is a a prominent, sometimes controversial local voice
“Ten years is a lot of time,” Riley said. “You mature, you change, you grow, your opinions change. We never wrote about politics in the beginning and I really didn’t care about politics. Then 2008 happened and I started getting more into it. Now, that’s one of our big topics.”
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Commentary: Where’s the transparency?
Other critics point to a lack of courtroom experience, noting that Wyrick admits in his application that he has only taken one civil case to verdict on a bench trial and has never taken either a civil or criminal case to verdict before a jury. Also, he has never been a judge.
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Tough decisions
“We are looking at more systemic changes because we’ve run out of easy things to cut,” Lora said last week. “Now, we have to look at changes in grade configurations and school closures for small schools.”
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Anti-protest bills could curb freedom of speech or provide protection in Oklahoma
House Bill 1123 would enhance trespassing laws, and House Bill 2128 would hold protesters and individuals or entities that financially aid them liable for property damage.
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State officials turn the lights off on artist Jack Fowler’s projected Woody Guthrie-themed protest
On Feb. 27, Fowler projected an image of folk legend Woody Guthrie on a large tarp covering renovations to the north end of the Oklahoma state Capitol.