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Kurt Hochenauer
Call it "reportitis" or report burnout, but Oklahomans have to be tired of hearing about all the latest studies and rankings that show the state has major problems.   One of the ...

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Kurt Hochenauer
Oklahoma County District Judge Richard Freeman's decision a decade ago to ban the Academy Award-winning film "The Tin Drum" still goes down as one of the most embarrassing moments in local history. ...

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Kurt Hochenauer
Why not establish a public university in the Bricktown area of Oklahoma City?   This university would secure the financial viability of the entertainment area, offer conveniently...

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Kurt Hochenauer
It's time Oklahomans pay attention to how money has polluted the state's political systems.   What many Oklahomans, no matter their political affiliation, may well conclude after...

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Kurt Hochenauer
There are several pending bills in the Oklahoma Legislature that, if passed, will send a clear message to the nation that the state does not support diversity, multiculturalism and women's reproductiv...

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Kurt Hochenauer
Who would have thought after all these grim years of death and destruction fighting religious extremism in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans would be fighting the same war right here ...

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Kurt Hochenauer
The nation may have veered left in the recent elections, but Oklahoma made a turn right when it voted into office an equal number of Republican and Democratic state senators. Republicans now have the ...

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Kurt Hochenauer
The lyrics of "Oklahoma Rising," the state's centennial anthem, are infested with clichés, insensitive to contributions made by American Indians to the state and filled with hokey banalities that shou...