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Evolution In (Or Out Of) the Oklahoma Classroom

Oklahoma is the latest state to introduce legislation that would limit the teaching of evolution…

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Oil, Scandal, and the Government—And the Oklahomans Trying to Stop It

Denver Westword, a Colorado alternative newsweekly, recently published a lengthy and detailed account of how big…

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This Land Live with David Blatt

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Olinka Hrdy’s Mysterious Murals Revisited

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Happy MLK Day, Oklahoma

Today, Oklahomans (along with the rest of the world) celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day…

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The Okie Weekly Reader, Endangered Kangaroo Edition

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This Land Live with Larry Shaeffer

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No Train, No Gain

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The billboards go up in early November: the flushed cheeks of a Coca-Cola- reminiscent Santa Claus rendered 10 feet high. The words, the call to action, read simply, “RideTheChristmasTrain.com.”

In less than two days, the 50,000 tickets available for the 2011 season of The Christmas Train in Dry Gulch, U.S.A.—the annual Christmas-time attraction produced by…

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Dear Uncle Ronnie
My uncle, Ronald David Roberts, was born in 1945, the…

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In the Company of Gin
Barnaby Conrad III pointed out the home of the Mai…

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Washington-based winemaker Charles Smith and local wine distributor Scott Large…

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About 20 years ago, a group of students at Rhema…

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