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I started asking a simple question: How many members of Congress are collecting Social Security while also collecting their congressional salaries? I expected to find the answer. I didn't. What I…
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One State, Two States, Red State, Blue State
I live in Oklahoma, a state that today is unmistakably red. Republicans dominate Oklahoma politics. They hold the governor’s office and both chambers of the state Legislature, giving the party what…
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Six Cameras, Zero Warrants
There are six Flock Safety cameras in Tahlequah right now. One sits near the police department. Another was bolted onto a traffic pole at Muskogee Avenue and Willis Road this summer, solar powered,…
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Two People, One Beginning
When my daughter was pregnant with twins, she made a promise to herself. She would never allow her children to lose their individual identities simply because they happened to arrive in the world at…
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The Strange Experience of Outgrowing Yourself
I was sitting in a small upstairs room on a Wednesday night, the kind of room someone had clearly tried to make feel exciting for teenagers by ordering whatever showed up first when you search "youth…
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Where Do We Belong?
In my recent article, “Where Do I Belong?” I found myself considering where my ancestral loyalty belongs. Do I look to my European ancestors, or to my Native American ancestors? The answer, I…
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Rural, Young, and Politically Homeless
There's a kind of political loneliness that doesn't get talked about much, and I feel it constantly in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It isn't the loneliness of being surrounded by people who disagree with…
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"They"
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, they has several definitions. This column focuses on one in particular: "Used to refer to people in a general way or to a group of people who are not…
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Six Cameras, Zero Warrants
There are six Flock Safety cameras in Tahlequah right now. One sits near the police department. Another was bolted onto a traffic pole at Muskogee Avenue and Willis Road this summer, solar powered,…
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Where Do We Belong?
In my recent article, “Where Do I Belong?” I found myself considering where my ancestral loyalty belongs. Do I look to my European ancestors, or to my Native American ancestors? The answer, I…
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Rural, Young, and Politically Homeless
There's a kind of political loneliness that doesn't get talked about much, and I feel it constantly in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It isn't the loneliness of being surrounded by people who disagree with…
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Healing Collective Trauma in a Fractured Society
Every week, I find myself returning to the same question: How do we come back together as a country? It is a question sparked by the news, conversations with friends, or sometimes a short video or…
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According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, they has several definitions. This column focuses on one in particular: "Used to refer to people in a general way or to a group of people who are not…
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Healing Collective Trauma in a Fractured Society
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I was fourteen, standing in a crowd in Tulsa at one of Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligar…
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