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If You've Been There for Years, Where Is the Change?

Opinion

If You've Been There for Years, Where Is the Change?

For the last couple of months, I couldn't go anywhere in Oklahoma without passing the same kind of campaign sign. Big change for education, big change for jobs, big change for families, big change…

District 86 Polling Location

Politics

What Oklahoma Almost Had

I was sitting in a restaurant with my family tonight when my phone started buzzing. Between bites, under the table, I kept checking. One by one, the Associated Press called Oklahoma's races: the…

Six Cameras, Zero Warrants

Opinion

Six Cameras, Zero Warrants

There are six Flock Safety cameras in Tahlequah right now. One sits near the police department. Another was bolted onto a traffic pole at Muskogee Avenue and Willis Road this summer, solar powered,…

Healing Collective Trauma in a Fractured Society

Opinion

Healing Collective Trauma in a Fractured Society

Every week, I find myself returning to the same question: How do we come back together as a country? It is a question sparked by the news, conversations with friends, or sometimes a short video or…

We've Forgotten How to Disagree

Opinion

We've Forgotten How to Disagree

I've noticed something in almost every classroom discussion I've sat through. A teacher asks a question that's supposed to open things up, and within a minute, it's not really a discussion anymore.…

Nobody's Asking Us

Politics

Nobody's Asking Us

I got a text a few weeks ago asking me to rate my feelings about the governor on a scale of one to five. No name attached, no explanation of who was asking or why. Just a number they wanted from me…