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Paula Sophia

Manhood – from the inside out – part 41 – O Holy Night

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Paula Sophia continues her serial memoir of her life. In this episode she moves forward to a significant point in adulthood.
Purple county

Purple reign: Oklahoma is only a “red state” if you exclude Okla County

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Republicans at the national level want Oklahoma City’s progressive residents to accept their fate as outnumbered, outgunned voters in a bright red state.
Jail Trust

OKC Free Press wins four news awards in pandemic-delayed 2020 contest

OKC Free Press once again has garnered news awards from the yearly contest between digital print, physical print, radio, TV, and magazines.
Stitt gaming

Gov Stitt lost big money betting against the state’s tribal gaming compacts

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Gov. Kevin Stitt lost a sucker bet against tribal gaming compacts in Oklahoma Tuesday, spending $1.5 million in legal fees.
U.S. Capitol

Ousting the Republican conference chair, Republicans chose lies over Liz

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U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, was removed from her Republican House leadership for telling the truth and challenging the "Big Lie."
Oklahoma Attorney General

It’s about a Republican Party willing to burn democracy to the ground

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President Donald Trump’s state and congressional minions will keep Trumpism alive even at the cost of democracy itself.
George Lang opinion

Our top ten OPINION posts of 2020 exposed bad thinking in government

Here are the top ten opinion articles by George Lang, opinion writer for Free Press, who consistently took on governmental bad thinking.
Marshall Gregory Award with Alicia Priest

Why the award matters

I haven’t been a journalist for my entire adult life. And so, it was with surprise and gratitude that I received my first journalism award...
Inhofe Lankford

On COVID-19 vote, Lankford, Inhofe ignore working Oklahomans’ reality

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The brutal truth is that both Lankford and Inhofe constituted 25 percent of the “no” votes on the COVID-19 response bill, which was approved 90-8.
police

Lankford, Inhofe refuse to confront Trump’s authoritarian acts in Portland

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Lankford and Inhofe’s lack of insight or public comment on these attacks is not surprising. They do not see the protesters as part of “their America.”
Paula Sophia

Manhood – from the inside out – part 43 – The pain of loneliness

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Paula Sophia Schonauer continues a serial memoir. To read the earlier parts of this series, follow the links at the end of each episode.
Trump

By not denouncing Trump’s anti-Constitution statement, Oklahoma’s delegation are traitors

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Since Donald Trump's statement that the Constitution should the "terminated" no response has come from any member of the Oklahoma delegation.
Paula Sophia

Manhood — from the inside out — the purge

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Paula Sophia Schonauer continues a serial memoir. To read the earlier parts of this series, follow the links at the end of each episode.
EMSA paramedic aids suspect

Our photography tells the story, too

Surprisingly, individual non-moving photographs still rule the day in news reporting. And we make sure that we rule with the medium that rules. All the...
Ginsburg

Hypocrisy, duplicity drive Senate GOP’s push for a Ginsburg replacement

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Senate Republicans are showing duplicity and hypocrisy in their headlong rush to install a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg.