SCOTUS ruled for tribal authority over Indian County; Oklahoma objects. X40
The SCOTUS’s 2020 McGirt ruling holds that much of eastern Oklahoma is Indian country under the terms of an 1833 treaty between the U.S. government and the Muscogee Creek Nation. What this means...
View ArticleI guess I am a Bleeding Heart Liberal After All
My heart is certainly bleeding for Tulsa, Oklahoma, right now. My heart is rent by an increasingly sure conviction that a conflagration is on its way to a former home that has its own deep and abiding...
View ArticleOklahoma is going to die!
I thought I, my wife and daughter would be safer here in our rural home far outside the town of Norman Ok. I was wrong. Yesterday I read on facebook that one of my wife’s customers had a death in her...
View ArticleResearchers locate what they believe are two mass graves from Tulsa race...
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, white Americans murdered, destroyed, and terrorized the wealthiest African American community in the United States. The massacre began over a false...
View ArticleAbby Broyles Is Taking Back the Senate in Oklahoma
Abby Broyles is the new generation and she is taking on Senator Snowball and running for US Senate. At only 30 years old, Abby is working on her second career as an attorney after 10 years as a...
View ArticleOklahoma Democratic Party HQ targeted with hate-filled graffiti
Stories:NonDoc (independent online news)NewOK (local corporate daily) | Update with quote from Republican Gov. StittFox 25KOCO News 5KFOR News 4Statement from Oklahoma County DP:The Oklahoma County...
View ArticleNRA adds 2 more notches in campaign lobbying states to abolish permits for...
As House Democrats passed bills last week to expand background checks for would-be gun buyers—bills with no chance in the Senate or for a presidential signature—the National Rifle Association added...
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Oklahoma Republicans following modern GOP tactics.
Sen. Treat et. al. would never do this if Dems were any threat to them before 2020:Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.For Immediate Release: January 16, 2018Office of the...
View ArticleVote against teacher pay comes back to bite six more Oklahoma Republicans
Six more Oklahoma state House Republicans lost their primary run-offs on Tuesday after having voted against raising taxes to give teachers their first raise in a decade. That’s after two others were...
View ArticleHorrible: On the first day of school, kids find new low-paid, under-qualified...
Kids around the country head back to school today, which probably doesn’t excite them! In many states, they’ll be greeted by low-paid teachers who are being thrust into leading classrooms before...
View ArticleHas Marijuana Become a Boss Issue in Oklahoma Politics?
A generation ago I was up to my neck in Oklahoma politics for the better part of 10 years. Once upon a time I worked in a lovely, oak paneled office on the ground floor of the West wing of the...
View ArticleHow the last land rush in Indian territory forced the Kickapoo to surrender...
Nearly 125 years ago, on May 23, 1895, the smallest and last federally-approved land rush in Oklahoma Territory got under way as "surplus lands" of the Kickapoo were thrown open for settlers to...
View ArticleTeachers file to run for office in Oklahoma as Democrats. They want to raise...
When Cyndi Ralston retired after more than three decades as a public school teacher, she could have never imagined that just a few years later, she would be at the center of national headlines and the...
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Female Attorneys Tell Oklahoma Legislators "There WILL be change..We will be...
The letter signed by attorney Becky A. Murphy ends with a P.S. that states,“We will be the women in black. You will see us coming.” Dear Oklahoma Legislator:I, along with 100 female attorneys, will be...
View ArticleOklahoma Senate passes $20 million in education funding as support for...
As Oklahoma teachers stayed out of classrooms and in the state capitol pressing for increased education funding for a fifth day, the state Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a tax on third party...
View ArticleI Sort of Used to be a Public School Teacher in Oklahoma
Nearly 50 years ago, during my final semester at the University of Tulsa, I completed the student teaching requirement for my B.S.Ed. in a sixth grade classroom in a Tulsa public elementary school....
View ArticleOK-Gov: Edmondson (D) Stands Up For Teachers, Slams Gov. Fallin's (R) Idiotic...
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s (D) gubernatorial campaign:We’ve been at the capitol every day this week – hearing directly from teachers and students about...
View ArticleAn inmate strikes back at sheriff whose policies facilitated her sexual assault
Law enforcement authorities’ indifference to conditions of imprisonment is too often deliberate. Even after learning that his policies were facilitating sexually abusive behavior by prison officials...
View Article24 Year Old Oklahoma State Dem Chair: Not true that if others' have rights,...
Came across a brief reference tonight in Bradcast about the recent flipped seat in Oklahoma. The intriguing part for me is that their Democratic State Party Chair is a woman and only 24 years old...
View ArticleOklahoma City police officer handcuffs woman for riding a bike and handing...
A white Oklahoma City woman got a small lesson in what too many black Americans regularly face at the hands of police last week when she was handcuffed and held in a patrol car just for riding her bike...
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