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And Afflict The Comfortable
Observercast Episode 7: Open Meetings In The Time Of Pandemics
It's difficult enough during ordinary times for rank-and-file Oklahomans to keep up with state government. It became even trickier when lawmakers, responding to the...
Observercast Episode 6: ‘Look Around For Your Partners’
Observercast Episode 6 – 'Look Around For Your Partners' – expands on our discussion of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s standoff with Oklahoma’s sovereign tribal nations over...
Observercast Episode 5: Removing The People’s Power – HJR 1027
Two-thirds of the Oklahoma House this week took steps to neuter the People’s Power. Sixty-six reps – all Republicans – rammed through a proposal...
Observercast Episode 4: ‘Who will build roads in Anadarko?’
Why did Gov. Kevin Stitt pick a fight with the Oklahoma’s sovereign tribal nations over gaming compacts that generated $1.28 billion for the state...
Observercast Episode 3: ‘Changing to Change’
The week of February 24th was the first deadline week of the legislative session, which is high time for parliamentary shenanigans and sleights of...
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Choosing Ignorance Threatens America
Republicans once tried to pose as a party of hard-headed realists. It was a sham, but that was their stance. Those days are long...
Economic Justice
In a crisis, the limits and failures of a capitalist society become clear. Take GDP as one example.
Gross domestic product is the value of...
A Flailing, Failing Presidency
Events keep outrunning the media's, or my attempts to keep up with the soap opera-cum-governmental disaster that is the Trump presidency.
Even the great journalists...