Kurt Hochenauer;Commentary

There are seemingly conflicting federal survey numbers about the depth of poverty in Oklahoma these days, but all the facts taken together show that there’s still too much suffering and more needs to be done in the fight against systemic impoverishment here. A U.S. Census report in September claimed the state’s poverty level actually declined […]

In a 2004 landslide vote, Oklahomans amended the state’s constitution to deny marriage equality to gay people. The so-called “defense of marriage amendment” made it illegal for anyone to issue a marriage license to a same-gender couple here and made it clear the state would not recognize same-gender marriages performed in states that do allow […]

What will it take to change the prevailing political mentality in Oklahoma when it comes to prison incarceration? In a recent media report, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Justin Jones called the current prison situation a “crisis” because of the disparity between the high number of inmates and low number of corrections staff, which has […]