The city council’s failure to approve Indigenous Peoples Day should encourage the community to work together to bring about needed change.
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Letters to the Editor: Oct. 14, 2015
Fungible facts Nate Batchelder’s, director of The Peace House, endorsement of the despicable practices of Planned Parenthood (PP) is nonsensical, specious statistics according to me, Tom Furlong, director of the Victory House (Opinion, Commentary, “The right to choose,” Sept. 30, Oklahoma Gazette). He doesn’t realize that dollars are fungible; any of my tax dollars directed […]
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Commentary: The honest solution
City must address poverty, homelessness, mental health and addiction holistically, not punitively.
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Commentary: The right to choose
For thousands of years, women have passed along secrets of how to end a pregnancy or how to prevent one. Until birth control, there was no sure defense against pregnancy; and until legalized abortion, there was no safe way to end a pregnancy. Currently, in America, 99 percent of women in their fertile years will […]
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Oklahoma’s budget woes are blamed on fossil fuel job loss. A culprit, though, is four years of income tax reductions by the governor and legislature.
Oklahoma’s budget woes are blamed on fossil fuel job loss. A culprit, though, is four years of income tax reductions by the governor and legislature.
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Commentary: A green light for public transit
This policy currently forces the speed of buses — and potentially the streetcar and future BRT vehicles — to be dictated by automobile movement.
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Commentary: Headlines matter
Ask a mother whose child was sickened by air and water contamination if the problem is “widespread.”
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Commentary: Teaching all students
Nationwide, minority enrollment (Latino, African-American and Asian combined) in public schools is expected to surpass white student enrollment, according to an Aug. 19 report from Education Week and data from the National Center for Education Statistics. This is largely due to Hispanic community growth and is a reality that mirrors what Oklahoma City Public Schools […]
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Commentary: The truth about Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest provider of sex education and women’s health care. It helps an estimated 10 million women across the globe each year. In 2011, 97 percent of its worldwide services involved things like Pap smears, education, pregnancy tests, STI and STD testing (including HIV and AIDS). Thirty-five percent of its services are contraceptive in nature […]
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 26, 2015
But no buildings were destroyed to make way for the Devon Tower; it was an architecturally insignificant parking garage!