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NonDoc journalists report on the civic realm in Oklahoma and beyond. Our site also publishes a variety of commentary pieces about civic matters. As a site category, “Civics” encompasses three subcategories: Education, Health Care and Politics.

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Professor: Widow’s mandate ‘meaningless’ for Commissioner appointment

The posturing for gubernatorial appointment to the vacant Oklahoma Labor Commissioner post has become a de facto political campaign in the eyes of a local...
9/11s

Our 9/11s, the personal and detached

The murder of TV journalists on a live broadcast. A white supremacist gunning down African American church-goers in South Carolina. The heartbreaking image of...
minimum wage

Minimum wage: ‘If I could pay you any less, I would’

(Editor's Note: This is part three of NonDoc's series on labor issues this week. Part one looked at labor union membership, part two recalled...
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Democrat Munson wins District 85 special election

In the movie Kingpin, Woody Harrelson plays con man and hard-luck bowler Roy Munson. During a flashback to his promising childhood, his father, Calvert,...
Right To Work

Right To Work 14 years later: ‘It was an incredible campaign’

Across the nation, state legislatures and electorates are still debating one of the biggest issues in organized labor: Should private-sector unions be allowed to...
labor

Labor in Oklahoma: Unions see less membership, understanding

(Editor's Note: NonDoc will look at various issues related to "labor" in Oklahoma and the nation this week following Labor Day. You can read the introduction...
roundabouts

Roundabouts: You spin me left-round, baby, left-round

Nobody likes being stuck in traffic. Nobody likes sitting at a red light. Josh McBee (managing editor here at NonDoc) taught me the term “punishment...
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Q&A: Susan Binkowski — ‘The bigger the world gets, the smaller the neighborhood remains’

Oklahoma-owned-and-operated Buy For Less boasts more than a dozen locations in the OKC metro. The company also runs several Super Mercado and Uptown Grocery Company locations....
labor

Our series on ‘labor’ starts Tuesday

This may be a difficult way to say, "Happy Labor Day" and introduce an upcoming series of content, but here goes. When Oklahoma Labor Commissioner...
Oklahoma public meetings

Oklahoma public meetings in September

(Editor's Note: Here, from our NonDoc base in Oklahoma's capital city, we want people to remember that The Oklahoma Open Meeting Act ensures access to Oklahoma public...

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