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A Forgotten Coup in the American Heartland Echoes Trump
By Russell Cobb, University of Alberta The governor orders the National Guard to string barbed wire around the capitol building and take up defensive positions with machine guns. The Ku Klux Klan,...
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A Forgotten Coup in the American Heartland Echoes Trump
By Russell Cobb, University of Alberta The governor orders the National Guard to string barbed wire around the capitol building and take up defensive positions with machine guns. The Ku Klux Klan,...
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Making Money Jumping Ship
Recently Oklahoma and Texas announced they were joining the SEC (South East Conference), or maybe the SEC announced that Texas and Oklahoma were joining the conference. I don’t remember and it doesn’t...
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I Can Name That Town in Three Letters
Title reference for you youngsters. I’ve been researching towns in Oklahoma for my next series. I’ve discovered some interesting and amusing Oklahoma town names. There’s Disney, a town in northeastern...
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Protected, for Now: The Race To Provide Afghan Evacuees With Legal Services
By Lionel Ramos, Oklahoma Watch (Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest number of volunteer attorneys at the Oklahoma Afghan Legal Network and the network’s hosting of...
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Conservatives Don’t Believe Their Own Pro-Life Rhetoric
In April, the Oklahoma legislature passed a new law making abortion a felony, subjecting anyone who performs one in the state to a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $100,000. In so...
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‘American Diagnosis’: Two Indigenous Students Share Their Path to Medicine
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Episode 9: “Two Paths, Two Future Physicians” In 1890, Dr. Charles Eastman became one of the first...
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When Does Life Begin?
By Sarah Varney As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral...
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Doctors Rush to Use Supreme Court Ruling to Escape Opioid Charges
By Brett Kelman Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny, brick clinic in Oklahoma, he doled...
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The Four-Day School Week: Research Shows Benefits and Consequences
By Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist’s Resource We have updated this piece on the four-day school week, originally published on June 5, 2018, to include new figures, research and other information...
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Are You an Optimist? Could You Learn To Be?
By Judith Graham When you think about the future, do you expect good or bad things to happen? If you weigh in on the “good” side, you’re an optimist. And that has positive implications for your...
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Public Health Agencies Try To Restore Trust as They Fight Misinformation
By Lauren Sausser OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19...
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Music to His Ears: Competitive Karaoke Helps Gay Man Find the Confidence To...
. . Growing up in conservative Vietnamese Buddhist household in Oklahoma City, Vu Doan was excited when the opportunity arose to relocate to Austin as an adult. Yet despite moving to a progressive...
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Congress Considers Easing Regulations on Air Transport of Donated Organs
By Colleen DeGuzman What do kidney and pancreas transplants have to do with airplane regulations? Tucked into the hundreds of pages of legislative language to reauthorize the Federal Aviation...
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Funyuns and Flu Shots? Gas Station Company Ventures Into Urgent Care
By Bram Sable-Smith TULSA, Okla. — When Lou Ellen Horwitz first learned that a gas station company was going to open a chain of urgent care clinics, she was skeptical. As CEO of the Urgent Care...
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Minority Oklahomans Disproportionately Sued Over Debt
By Lionel Ramos When Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma citizen DJ Koon bought a 2005 Nissan Sentra in 2012, he didn’t expect to find himself fighting a debt collection lawsuit for the next 10 years....
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The Top 10 US States Where You Are Most Likely to Bump Into a Billionaire
Wyoming is the number one state where you are most likely to bump into a billionaire, with the highest number of billionaires per one million people. Following in second place is Hawaii, with 2.06...
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Ozarks Notebook: A Mountain Region Built on Rocky Soil and Complexity
By Kaitlyn McConnell / Ozarks Alive, The Daily Yonder Editor’s Note: Today we’re launching a new, monthly column focusing on the life and culture of the Ozarks, the largely rural uplands region...
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Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match...
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Oklahoma’s Foster Family Shortage Forces Children from Their Communities
By Whitney Bryen Kaitlin Davis recently drove four hours round trip from Lawton to Guthrie to check on a 6-year-old girl who was recovering from the flu and visit with her foster parents about how to...
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