Commentary
Deborah Mcauliffe Senner
As most of Oklahoma’s nonprofit organizations would agree, the landscape of our state’s charitable community would be much different without the generous support of our corporate donors. Allied Arts’ visionary donors — Chesapeake Energy, the Chickasaw Nation and Devon Energy — along with all our corporate partners, are committed to investing in the enhancement of the communities in which their employees live and work, and we are grateful beneficiaries.

Commentary
Robin Meyers
For over a decade I wrote a regular column for this page, a second opinion on the dominant political and theological ethos of my beloved Oklahoma — where I was born, have raised three children, and continue to lead the same amazing church.

Commentary
Lauren Branch
Oklahoma City is in the midst of a renaissance. When civic leaders talk about our city’s progress, you hear phrases like “world-class” and “big-league city.” The Thunder is driving toward a possible NBA championship. Olympic athletes are training on the Oklahoma River. A 50-story skyscraper just reshaped the city’s skyline.

Letters to the Editor
Jim Henry
Mick Cornett’s commentary of May 16 (“Thunder has transformed city’s image,” Oklahoma Gazette) proved that I was right when Oklahoma City chose Mick Cornett over Jim Tolbert: If you elect a sportscaster as mayor, you get a sportscaster as mayor.

Letters to the Editor
Joann Bell
Another Pride Week has passed. Never before have we had more of a reason to stand with the LGBT citizens of Oklahoma than now. With the breakthrough of a sitting president endorsing and recognizing the rights of gay citizens to marry and hold the same legal rights as heterosexual couples — for the first time in history — we have much to celebrate.

Commentary
Kris Steele
Building on momentum from recent years, the Legislature this session enacted the most significant criminal justice reform of the modern era through House Bill 3052.

Commentary
Ryan Kiesel
House Bill 3052 has been touted as one of the most significant criminal justice reform measures in Oklahoma’s recent history.

Letters to the Editor
Brandon Wertz
“Locked, loaded and legal” (News, Peter Wright, May 9, Oklahoma Gazette) sounds like a gun guy’s wet dream, but it may present more problems than solutions. Concealed carry offers no indication to criminals that they are in for a fight, and thus the public presumption is that open carry is a deterrent. But there is a caveat.

Letters to the Editor
Virginia Blue Jeans Jenner
With Tulsa’s low test-scoring McLain High School in danger of a state takeover, the north Tulsa school needs a makeover.

Commentary
Harry Coates
The state Department of Corrections struggles financially every year because we have some of the most overcrowded prisons in the country.

Commentary
Mick Cornett
I was watching ESPN the other night and saw Skip Bayless, Tim Legler and Stephen A. Smith spend 20 minutes talking about the Oklahoma City Thunder. A few days earlier, I’d seen the ESPN First Take team analyzing Russell Westbrook’s game.

Letters to the Editor
David Orr
Oklahoma Water Resources Board and Cherokee Nation member Ed Fite reminds us (News, “Water war,” Clifton Adcock, May 2, Oklahoma Gazette) that in spite of the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes’ well-produced PR campaign on water rights, "the two nations brought that suit against the state, and that's being lost” — in case anyone missed Gov. Fallin trying to shame the tribes into submission after they called OKC's bluff on their strong-arm tactic with the good ol’ boys at the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.

Commentary
Ramona Paul
Thank heaven for little girls — and boys!

Letters to the Editor
Martin Morelli
Johnson & Johnson’s dental floss now has instructions on the back of its package showing how to properly cut the floss.

Letters to the Editor
Brandon Wertz
Ted Nugent’s recent comments at the National Rifle Association convention regarding President Obama (Chicken- Fried News, “Redneck rhapsody,” April 25, Oklahoma Gazette) have raised a valid question: At what point does a person’s free speech make him or her culpable in a murder?