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NonDoc.com serves as a responsible public forum for news and commentary. Our commentary section is open for public submission on a variety of topics. Promotional pieces are not accepted as commentary submissions.

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Bob Dylan

The new home of Bob Dylan

It’s the duty of musicians and singers to archive the sentiments of their times. Essentially, a musician is a historian, and there has never...
Dr. Drew

Hacked: No, Dr. Drew doesn’t need your money

It's not every Monday morning that Dr. Drew Pinsky asks for my help. An email sent just shy of 7 a.m. central time alerted me to the...
Trumpdaze

Trumpdaze: An ‘Unstoppable force’

(Editor’s Note: NonDoc provides Sundaze as a weekly space for poetry, short prose, visual art and other ideas pitched by creatives in Oklahoma and around the world....
federalism

Melting pot: A case study in the meaning of federalism

(Editor's Note: Two days after the publication of this piece, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision not to hear the case in question. The...
public relations

Filter: Public relations like kissing two butts at one time

The profession of public relations is the delicate art of kissing two butts at one time. That, at least, is the mantra I came up...
Open records

Open Records & Open Meeting acts ‘for the public’

(Editor's Note: In honor of Sunshine Week, the following has been excerpted from OSU School of Media and Strategic Communications associate professor Joey Senat's book, Mass...
beautiful

Body image: ‘I decided I wanted to be beautiful’

I remember the first time I felt truly worthwhile. It was fourth grade, and a little boy in my class named Kevin held my...
partisan ideology

David Walters: Partisan ideology takes its toll on budget

Watching the demise of Oklahoma's state-government services (public education, health care, corrections, infrastructure funding and mental health, to name a few) is similar to...
Shack

‘Birthday,’ a short story

(Editor's note: Birthday is a short story from Oklahoma author Andy Bowen.) It was a cold morning in December in 1953, and Jack Farley's '39 Ford...
work-first

Work-first economic policies ‘now widely discredited’

Since the 1990s, both education and social policy have shifted gears away from coordinated, comprehensive efforts to fight poverty and toward reward-and-punish policies to...

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