The problem is the silence of the majority is drowned out by the actions of the few.
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Commentary: Wind energy bring opportunity for state
We need to look for sustainable ways to power our homes, businesses, schools and more in order to help keep Oklahoma on the fast track to a bright future.
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Commentary: Are college grads workforce-ready?
Graduating college is a rite of passage. College graduates have spent the last four to seven years (depending on the patience of their parents) of their lives diligently studying, cultivating relationships and preparing for their bright futures. This is what college graduates tell themselves and, in most cases, their parents. But are they really ready […]
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Letters to the editor: Sept. 10, 2014
Obama could halt violence In reply to the letter featured in your Aug. 20 issue from Michael Hopkins (News, Letters to the editor, “Ignorance isn’t bliss,” Aug. 20, Oklahoma Gazette): Saddam Hussein violated the 1991 Ceasefire Agreement repeatedly throughout the Clinton administration, but that feckless politician did nothing as Iraqi air defense gunners threatened to […]
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Commentary: Seeking acceptance in America’s heartland
I, like countless other Oklahomans and Americans, will never forget where I was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Like a typical college student, I was still asleep when news broke of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York. I was alarmed when my mother flung the door open to my room, […]
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Commentary: Students’ tests measure wrong things
Contemporary reforms failed in the same ways that previous data-driven school experiments failed.
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 20, 2014
Scott Esk, Muslim extremists, Nazis and professional sports owners still have a lot to learn.
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If only I was a corporation
I should have expected the Hobby Lobby decision, given the record of the Roberts court, but it still made we wonder, yet again, if people are paying attention to what we are becoming — or more accurately, what we have become. Because Oklahoma’s Green family, which owns the company, objects on religious grounds to the […]
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More troubling to me is the unquestioned assumption that the Green family’s version of Christianity is normative.
More troubling to me is the unquestioned assumption that the Green family’s version of Christianity is normative.
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 7, 2014
Who’s to blame? Donald Smith (Commentary, Letters, “No war,” July 16, Oklahoma Gazette) wishes to remind those of us with “short memories” that the United States sent troops into Iraq at the order of George W. Bush. I wish to refresh his memory and ask him if he remembers 9/11. Does he remember which Middle […]