Editorial: Casino exclusivity fees could be the next ‘GPT’
Oklahoma lawmakers achieved a major bipartisan feat last week with 75 percent of House and Senate members voting to pass more than $400 million...
Forget Facebook: Fake news still the biggest threat
Last week, it was Mark Zuckerberg's time in the barrel. Facebook and Co. are getting their social media comeuppance. Even super geek Elon Musk...
Notes from last Saturday’s March for Our Lives
As was true with some 800 other protests across the nation – where hundreds of thousands of people joined the March for Our Lives – students led...
HB 1011XX: What’s Dr. No hiding in his holiday home?
The Thinker’s attention was recently called to Monday's press release from the OCPA. In it, former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn fired a warning shot in...
Lawyer: SB 1140 discriminates against gay couples
Now that the Supreme Court has expressly ruled that a gay couple has a fundamental right to marry, those opposing such marriages are doing...
Money for education: Senate sends historic revenue bill to governor
Oklahoma teachers will see their first state-paid raises in more than a decade — and the largest raise in state history — if Gov....
Kids these days: A March For Our Lives feature
The sight was something to behold: a two-mile-long line of people stretching across the three lanes of Lincoln Boulevard, en route to the Oklahoma...
Lawmakers discuss ‘credibility issue’ with OEA position
During Ron Sharp's 38 years teaching civics, Oklahoma history and tennis at Shawnee Public Schools, he was a member of the Oklahoma Education Association....
Of 58 racial profiling complaints filed since ’08, all dismissed
(Editor’s note: This story about executions was authored by Trevor Brown of Oklahoma Watch and appears here in accordance with the non-profit journalism organization’s republishing...
Opportunity Scholarship Fund has helped 1,800 students
Most everyone agrees every student deserves the very best opportunity to learn, but the battle over public education funding in Oklahoma hides an important...


















