Halley Reeves is a community health strategist and a 2019 OKG’s Forty Under 40 recipient. Reeves earned a master’s degree in public health from University of Washington and a master’s degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of American Public Health Association and American Planning Association. OKG: Tell Us […]
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Help needed
Last year, Oklahoma long-term care facility surveyors conducted around 3,000 inspections across the state. That they managed to get to that many facilities is an impressive feat considering Oklahoma State Department of Health’s surveyor team contained just around 110 inspectors and was capped by a department-wide hiring freeze. Department of Health long-term care director Mike […]
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Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice advocates for women’s, family health care rights
“Oklahoma has a trend of being a little more hostile towards choice and reproductive justice in general,” Speidel said.
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Chicken-Fried News: Aborted intentions
A recent mandate aiming ‘to achieve an abortion-free society’ was aborted after public backlash.
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Welcome home, Mr. Inhofe
But did you know that if we had “socialized medicine like Obama is trying to impose on America,” he might not have been afforded his recent emergency quadruple bypass heart surgery? That’s how he put it, anyway. “A person can find out, here in the United States, that he has this emergency situation where he […]
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Various artists — Woody Guthrie at 100!: Live at the Kennedy Center
One look at the artists featured on Woody Guthrie at 100!: Live at the Kennedy Center — a concert album/DVD recorded on what would have been his 100th birthday — and his far-reaching impact is clear. Who else could influence both Old Crow Medicine Show and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello to the same […]
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Contraception and population
Within the past 100 years, the world population has grown by approximately 5 billion people. I realize the Bible says to be fruitful. However, the Bible didn’t account for 7 billion people with extended life expectancies thanks to the kind of medicine that Pedulla practices. It stands to reason that if mankind did not make […]
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Crow about it
Photo: Crackerfarm The only thing Americana act Old Crow Medicine Show likes better than working the stage is working the corner. “It’s always been our heart and soul. Our performance comes out of all those years spent cutting our teeth on the street corner,” singer Ketch Secor said of the band’s humble beginnings busking on […]