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  • Quitting should be smokers’ choice

    The Jan. 29 editorial “The high cost of tobacco” claimed that tobacco use costs Oklahomans a lot of money, but it did not disclose the fact that tobacco use produces a lot of money for Oklahomans, which — in the interest of being fair — ...

    February 9, 2012

  • Polio nearly eradicated worldwide

    From her quarantined hospital room on the third floor of Ellison Hall, seven-year-old Alesha Timmons Moring could often see her father, Boyce, as he headed into his office inside OU’s Evans Hall each day. They would exchange waves. ...

    February 5, 2012

  • Climate change remains in the cards

    Nothing about Earth’s history is static or unchanging. That’s particularly true of climate, and thereon hangs more than one interesting tale, including recent news of a scientific advance in understanding how past climate has changed....

    February 2, 2012

  • Does making the press the villain work?

    As a journalist and editor, I receive a lot of requests for help....

    January 31, 2012

  • Home on the train

    PAOLI — The meandering Washita River that first crosses below my Heartland Flyer passenger rail car south of here actually has water in it on this sunny December morning. Rains in western Oklahoma replenished the stream that eventually ...

    January 29, 2012

  • A lesson in common sense

    By Bill Huntington For The Transcript For many years the announcer at the Indianapolis Speedway made an announcement at the end of the race day. Paraphrasing, it went, “Ladies and gentlemen, you are entering the most dangerous place on ...

    January 27, 2012

  • The Resentment Equivalence

    Recent opinion pieces have expressed a simple theme, an incredibly simple theme, that the Occupy Movement is all about envy…nothing more…just envy....

    January 27, 2012

  • Is money safer inside a shoebox?

    During the 1920s, when the stock market failed and many financial institutions closed, cautious souls hid money in mattresses, flour sacks and shoeboxes hidden under the bed. Again during the Depression, grandparents commonly kept cash in ...

    January 26, 2012

  • Why we need the Keystone pipeline

    “Game on” was the cry from the industry. “Game over” was the cry from the environmentalists, as they expressed their feelings over the Keystone pipeline construction. The true story lies somewhere between....

    January 24, 2012

  • Physician closes door after nearly fifty years shalf century

    Dr. James V. Simmering never wanted to be a practicing physician. His real interest was chemistry and medical research. A professor suggested he obtain a medical degree before he got his Ph.D. “But working with all those white mice up at ...

    January 22, 2012

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