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Fox news
Having made a name for themselves in Fort Worth, Texas — first as a duo and now as a five-piece — blues rockers Foxtrot Uniform are all set for their Oklahoma debut, Friday at Blue Note Lounge, followed by Saturday at Grady’s 66 Pub. According to lead guitarist Kenny Uptain, the short trip north has […]
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Exhaustive exams
In the wake of glitches with online standardized testing, some school districts and state lawmakers question the validity of the exams. BY PHIL BACHARACH Nothing gets people testy like test-taking, especially when accessing the test becomes a sort of test in itself. That was the case for 9,100 Oklahoma students in sixth through 12th grade […]
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Skip the bathroom
It was tough enough that the Ward 7 council member was busted last week for drunk driving. Now, it turns out that Kelly wasn’t simply what the Brits would call “pissed” — he was literally pissed, too. A police officer arrested Kelly early the morning of Jan. 20 after the councilman was found sitting behind […]
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End academic segregation
Sadly, Oklahoma continues to practice a less obvious, but equally pernicious, form of segregation — one based on school size and inadequate academic offerings. Worst of all, recent legislation to address this injustice has been sidetracked by objections from the usual suspects who seem to resist every worthy school reform: the school administrators themselves. They […]
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Potter hater
It showed I was allergic to grass, pollen, cottonwood — things like that. It did not turn up positive for fantasy film franchises with deep mythology and invented languages, but only because such technology did not exist in the 1970s. Remember James Cameron’s “Avatar” from 2009? You know, the 3-D epic about the blue cat […]