Jumping The Gun On The 4th Of July

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BY DAVID PERRYMAN On July 4, 1906, a number of states conducted 46-gun salutes celebrating Oklahoma’s admission to the Union as the 46th state. To...

Good News, Bad News

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BY SHARON MARTIN The Supreme Court recognized intent instead of quibbling over language, so the subsidies Congress intended for insurance buyers on the Affordable Care...

Stopping The Slide Into Oblivion

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Second of Two Parts BY VERN TURNER The original draft of this essay intended to compare the 1956 GOP platform with the 2014 Democratic Party platform,...

A Failed Education Reform Model

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BY JOHN THOMPSON Can the hyper-competitive, test-driven charter school approach to education reform provide a model for other cities? According to the “true believers” among the attendees...

Where The Green Corn Grows

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BY DAVID PERRYMAN In 1917, the dome-less state Capitol building was called complete. For the 20 years prior to that date, the state had been...