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marijuana lawsuits

Lawyer: Medical marijuana restrictions could burn cities

Whole industries are not often born overnight. Medical marijuana presents unique challenges for Oklahoma’s state government: SQ 788 legalized medical marijuana within mere months...
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John Oliver discovers that Facebook is a toilet

We have said it before, and we will say it again: Facebook remains an indispensable yet thoroughly disgusting part of our daily lives as...
physicians offices

The doctor is out: Two threats to physicians’ offices

In my first commentary on NonDoc, I outlined my desire to examine the Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-Chase Bank collaborative to reform health care by breaking all...
vices

Editorial: Oklahoma loosens grip on vices

After teachers filled the Oklahoma State Capitol this spring, they returned to classrooms having achieved a primary policy objective to move their state forward:...

Toad in the hole: Mushroom has long week

It's true, I've heard these jokes equating the Super Mario Brothers character Toad with a penis. I've heard them since I was very young, but...
Boom Town

Boom Town: Chaos and order at odds in OKC

The battle between chaos and control in Oklahoma City constitutes the main theme in Sam Anderson’s new book, Boom Town. As is true of Oklahoma...
virtual charters

Virtual charters need legislative cost-benefit analysis

In 2017, Oklahoma’s four virtual charter schools had an average daily membership of nearly 12,000 students, but there is no way of knowing how many...
Boom Town

Boom Town ‘the best advertising’ OKC has ever known

Sam Anderson's Boom Town (Penguin Random House, 2018) is a fascinating, perplexing book, a mash-up of Oklahoma City history and the doings of the NBA's...
Keith Gaddie

From 1994 to 2018: Talking OK elections with Keith Gaddie

Few people in Oklahoma know more about political history, trends and shenanigans than OU professor Keith Gaddie. In this episode of the How We Got...
mural society

OKC’s modern society is mural society

I happened to pass by the mural on the new building in the Plaza District the other day, and it got me thinking about...

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