Filter: Feathers ruffled over Oklahoma tax credits
If theaters could talk, what would they say?
The Tower Theatre on 23rd Street in OKC found its voice in January when its iconic sign lit...
Clinton wades into quicksand of the UFO phenomenon
In early 2016, Hillary Clinton gave what might be the most significant signal ever telegraphed to the American people about UFOs.
Or she just confirmed...
U.S. v. Texas: ‘Take Care’ not to expand judicial power
United States v. Texas … what fun.
The facts are complicated. They always are when the legal story is good and the outcome may be...
Two ‘no-brainers’ for fixing Oklahoma’s budget crisis
The theme of the Oklahoma Policy Institute’s third annual State Budget Summit could have been the exhortation by the institute’s outreach and advocacy specialist,...
Proposed rule would deny kids mental health access
Over the past week, I have been overwhelmed by discovering the condition of Oklahoma's mental health care system. I only investigated one aspect of...
Grady County hospital sales tax passes with 80 percent
Despite opposition from some Tea Party members, the sales tax proposed for financing emergency renovations to Grady Memorial Hospital passed with more than 80...
Making the case for school gardens as classrooms
TISHOMINGO — Gardening should be taught in schools, and not just because food is kind of important.
School gardens have been tied to higher standardized test...
Q&A: Political consultant hashes out presidential race
Pop quiz: Let's say Michael Bloomberg enters the 2016 presidential race as an independent. What happens?
In a rare moment of modesty, one political consultant admits...
News 9 embeds first TV journalist at Capitol in decades
For the first time in the 21st century, a commercial-TV news network has a reporter dedicated to full-time coverage of the Oklahoma Legislature and state...
‘I am glad Hillary Clinton has not promised the moon’
America is an exceptional nation. I don’t mean that in the sense of someone preparing to launch into a tirade about how God has chosen the United...


















