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Author: Gary Edmondson

Monotonous monocultures

September 3, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          Maybe it’s a lesson lingering from my former boss and political ally George H. Russell. For years, he served as forest practice chair for the Lone Star Sierra Club. Protecting Texas national forests – our Sam Houston National Forest

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GOP threatens public education

September 3, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics, Oklahoma Politics

          School days, school days. Time for Oklahoma teachers to dust off their mimeograph machines in preparation for a return to the 1950 educational model favored by Republican leaders – state and national.           Thanks to a recent Supreme Court

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Context counts

September 3, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, Oklahoma Politics

          Long-time University of Oklahoma assistant football coach Cale Gundy resigned over the weekend after repeatedly reading a racial slur aloud from a player’s iPad during a film session last week. A member of the Sooner staff since 1999, Gundy

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Environmental common sense

September 3, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Climate Crisis, Editorial

          Some of our profoundest realizations are quite simple. Philosopher Paul Weiss points out:     “What is possible for the acorn depends in part on what is possible to the soil, and what is possible to the soil depends in part

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Pandemic lingers; ignorance also

September 3, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics, Oklahoma Politics

          Last week the St. Louis Cardinals split a two-game series in Toronto against the Blue Jays. They did so with no contributions from All-Stars Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado. Their Gold Glove cornerstone sluggers did not make the trip

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Tearing down the wrong wall

July 25, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          The original Puritans were among the most liberal people of their time. Emerging mid-16th century after Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church, Edward VI’s brief Protestant ascendancy and Mary I’s bloody reaction, the Puritan element of English Protestantism

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Unholy alliance against women

July 13, 2022November 17, 2022
Gary Edmondson
Editorial, National Politics

          Political pundits pronounced themselves perplexed when conservative Christians – while  proclaiming “family values” at every opportunity – threw their voting support behind  Donald Trump.           Some evangelicals even claimed Trump, a thrice-married philanderer who bragged that surviving the sexual

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