Suspension rates Superintendent Robert Neu (pictured at right) called the district’s high suspension rate — especially among minority students — an unacceptable culture of sorting students that he plans to stop. During a press conference last week, Neu, who became superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools last year, discussed a recent internal discipline audit and […]
Environmental Protection Agency
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Chicken-Fried News: Prove it
Jim Inhofe is using his job on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to ask questions about climate change.
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Chicken-Fried News: Oklahoma’s favorite color
Yukon has been named one of the Best Cities for Conservatives.
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Frack, yeah!
Otherwise known as fracking, the method of natural-gas extraction is hailed by the energy industry (and those the industry has helped elevate to regulatory government positions) while simultaneously drawing fire from critics in the media, Hollywood and environmental groups. Thus far this year, the Environmental Protection Agency pushed back hard on criticism of its report […]
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Limit mercury
I recently passed a billboard west of Portland Avenue on Interstate 40 advertising treatment for brain tumors. When there are enough people in Oklahoma with brain tumors to warrant a huge billboard, there must be environmental causes. Surely we can do a better job of preventing previously uncommon and deadly diseases that so many of […]
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Regressive progressives
Rob Bennett (Letters, “Ignorance isn’t bliss,” June 29) finds fault with Oklahoma Gazette for publishing my views on various subjects. Like many liberals, he does not bother to check the facts, but rather wants to jump to conclusions that serve his purpose. I assume it is OK for the Gazette to publish many liberal viewpoints, […]