“Is it worth it?” asked Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Sean McDaniel in a Jan. 13 letter addressed to “families, staff and community.” McDaniel was not quoting Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott but offering an update on the progress of the Pathway to Greatness plan, which closed 15 public school campuses and required students, teachers and administrators […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Enemy of the Broken Arrow people
We recently reported on Rep. Dean Davis’s arrest during which he “I need to speak to your manager”-ed the arresting officer. Now, thanks to NonDoc, his jail call recordings to several fellow legislators are public, and oh boy are they full of golden nuggets. Davis was arrested Aug. 2 on suspicion of a DUI, speeding […]
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COVER: Viral disease
In early March 2015, a YouTube video emerged featuring members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant on a charter bus ride to Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. The Lost Ogle jumped on the story and then local and national news outlets followed suit. Oklahoma’s “Obscure Local Social […]
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Commentary: An open letter condemning LGBT violence and hate
No human should inflict homophobic or transphobic hate — not slurs, not discrimination, not intimidation, not anti-LGBT legislation, not assault, not battery and not murder.