A new monument at the state Capitol has been approved, but do not roll your eyes just yet — it will have nothing to do with any religion. The new monument will instead highlight the Bill of Rights. A nonreligious, relevant, politically important monument at the building where our state lawmakers go to make laws. […]
Bill of Rights
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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: Business time
Oklahoma lawmakers haven’t fixed the budget hole yet, but they have applauded state football and academic champions, authorized replicas or statues of historical documents on public property and created specials license plates.
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State Question 776 asks voters to protect the death penalty in Oklahoma
The proposed change would incorporate the protections into Oklahoma Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
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Chicken-Fried News: Monumental idea
One group thinks a Bill of Rights monument should take the place left by the Ten Commandments monument on the state capitol grounds.
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Letters to the Editor: Sept. 2, 2015
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com. Include a city of residence and contact number for […]
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If only I was a corporation
I should have expected the Hobby Lobby decision, given the record of the Roberts court, but it still made we wonder, yet again, if people are paying attention to what we are becoming — or more accurately, what we have become. Because Oklahoma’s Green family, which owns the company, objects on religious grounds to the […]