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- School board's shameful sideshow of antics
In this week's podcast, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette talk about recent Tulsa Public Schools board meetings; the Jan. 6 hearings; the recent hot weather; and how Oklahoma lost Panasonic to Kansas. Was it just about offering more money, or are our state's anti-laws deterring businesses from coming?
Related content:
Panasonic picks Kansas over Oklahoma for $4B EV battery facility
State laws on abortion, transgender issues have companies balking on coming to Oklahoma, development official says
Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next
See the latest local weather forecasts and features fro Tulsa World meteorologist Kirsten Lang at tulsaworld.com/weather.
Editorial: Apologies need to be on the TPS agenda from three board members
Editorial: Three TPS board members choose personal grudges, politics over students
Ginnie Graham: Don't let the public school bullies win
TPS board reverses course, approves routine items
17 former Tulsa school board members issue public call for return to focus on students
Board stalemate on routine business leaves TPS in limbo
Board member calls for superintendent's resignation after contentious TPS meeting with walkout
TPS school board audience divided by party, colors during LGBTQ support comments
Contact us
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
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32 min - Can't escape gun violence
In this week's podcast, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette talk about recent shootings during Fourth of July celebrations. With election season upon us, it is important to ask candidates questions about this safety issue.
Related content:
Red flags missed: How July 4 suspect slipped through system
Editorial: TPS offers students an early start at getting into aviation workforce
Editorial: New TPS program holds possibilities for better results for students facing trauma
D.C. Digest: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to begin 'Road' in western Oklahoma
Throwback Tulsa: Watergate scandal thrust ‘Little Giant’ into spotlight
Contact us
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
Click here to submit a letter to the editor
Support the show: https://tulsaworld.com/
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34 min - Pro-life and 'personal responsibility' post-Roe v. Wade
In this week's podcast, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette talk about the potential fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Will pro-life be about protecting the most vulnerable, or emphasis on personal responsibility? Will there be exemptions in cases of rape and incest?
Related content:
Column: Being 'pro-life' does not end with the birth of a child
Ginnie Graham: Tulsa women getting illegal abortions before Roe entered scary, dangerous world
Bob Doucette: Discipline of the right is what doomed Roe
Editorial: Supreme Court rewrites new era around abortion, putting focus on reforming Oklahoma's laws
New York lawmakers to vote on new gun rules following ruling
U.S. Supreme Court revisits McGirt: Oklahoma can prosecute non-tribal citizens on tribal land
Primary leaves several races undecided
Contact us
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
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40 min - In primary voting, is it about the party, or the person?
In this week's podcast, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette talk about upcoming state elections, including "partially closed" primaries, where Republicans can vote for Republicans, but Democrats and independent-registered voters can vote for Democrats. If these are taxpayer-funded elections, shouldn't all voters get to participate?
Also discussed:
- Acknowledging the Roe v. Wade decision announced Friday.
- Previewing the Tuesday state primaries, including a few endorsements.
- How is dark money impacting Oklahoma elections, even school board races? More than $6.5 million, most of it with untraceable origins, has poured into Oklahoma statewide and legislative primary races since April 1, according to Tulsa World's Randy Krebhiel's report.
- Epic Charter Schools and an alleged elaborate scheme to defraud and embezzle from taxpayers. It was not about the education model, as Oklahoma has other charter schools that are good. It was about mismanagement of education funding at a time when the state's schools struggled.
- Recapping the Tulsa Public School meeting's recently controversies at meetings, including LGBTQ training.
- A Tulsa World story by Jacob Factor that received national attention on a Broken Arrow open-carry incident that raised law enforcement questions
- Bob previews his column on the state's turnpikes; Ginnie Graham talks about going to Branson with her family
Related content:
Read the full Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade
Endorsement: Leslie Osborn deserving of Republican nomination for labor commissioner
Endorsement: Political outsider Gentner Drummond best choice for attorney general
Get prepared for June 28 election in Oklahoma
Dark money pours into state races
Epic Charter Schools co-founders, former CFO charged in elaborate scheme to defraud and embezzle from taxpayers
TPS school board audience divided by party, colors during LGBTQ support comments
Broken Arrow open-carry incident raises law enforcement questions
Bob Doucette: Betting big on the Gilcrease Expressway and other state turnpikes
Ginnie Graham: Top picks for rides and food at Silver Dollar City
Contact us
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
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44 min - No one’s buying into what’s being done
In this week's podcast, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette tackle a variety of topics from mental health, mass shootings, gun safety and how schools factor into that discussion as well as the Office of the Independent Monitor and the issues surrounding that idea.
Related
Tulsa police chief gives new details of mass shooting response
Editorial: TPD chief shows leadership in honest discussion about gun safety
Constitutional carry, straw purchases and 'ghost guns' contributing to 'wild, wild West' environment in Tulsa, police chief says
Editorial: Create unique Tulsa model for independent civilian input to build trust with police
Police chief says he 'can always use help,' but independent monitor is not the answer
Bob Doucette: Ukraine war emboldens Biden to warn China off Taiwan
Contact us
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
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38 min - This is about the soul of us
Gun violence remains in the news, plus the impact of the Jan. 6 hearings and the awesome OU softball team.
Related
Ginnie Graham: Holocaust education giving lessons to make sense of today's difficult times
Bob Doucette: Counting the costs of gun violence
Since McGirt, Tulsa DA says he worries about cases referred to tribes, unknown outcomes
Contact the writers
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
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33 min - Gun law status quo is killing us
In this episode, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette mainly address one topic: Oklahoma’s gun safety laws. They are nearly non-existent, and it’s killing us.
Among talking points:
- From Sandy Hook in 2012 to Uvalde, Texas in May to Tulsa, Oklahoma in June: Are people becoming numb to gun violence incidents? With "only" four victims in Tulsa's mass shooting, it was said that "it could have been worse"
- The Second Amendment ought to protect people. Law-abiding citizens still can have rights to own guns while laws can be improved to keep guns out of the hands of would-be killers.
- Christian values is about sacrifice for the betterment of the world. The victims of gun violence are people and not merely numbers.
- With the 2022 election upcoming, our editorial board will potentially make endorsements in some races after talking with candidates, including the upcoming primary.
- The Tulsa Jewish Federation honored Oklahoma lawmakers that helped pass House Bill 3720, mandating Holocaust education in Oklahoma schools.
- Previewing weekend columns, from both guest op-eds and staff
Related stories:
Editorial: Seize this moment to take control of the gun debate to save lives
Editorial: National epidemic of mass shootings at the door of Tulsa and Oklahoma
May 2022 editorial: After the nation grieves, what's to be done next?
Dec. 18, 2012 editorial: Terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook; Will shootings prompt change?
Taft shooting survivor recounts mass shooting aftermath; alleged shooter denied bond
Saint Francis shooting: Complete coverage from the Tulsa World
Ginnie Graham: Making choices, human behavior at the center of Holocaust education
Column: Tulsa will get through this together
Column: Arming teachers is not the answer; common sense policies are
Column: Why is the trauma of Camp Scott murders true-crime entertainment?
Bob Doucette: All is not well among Oklahoma Republicans
Contact the writers
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
Click here to submit a letter to the editor
Support the show: https://tulsaworld.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27 min - The unspeakable tragedies of mass shootings
In this episode, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette address the unspeakable tragedies of mass shootings. We’ve prayed; we’ve grieved; we’ve called for change; we’ve seen this cycle continuously repeat.
Americans remain heartbroken by the Tuesday, May 24 rampage in a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed. Seventeen others were wounded. The nation is united in mourning with the families and friends who face a lifetime of trauma.
But beyond that, what’s to be done?
Also discussed:
- When a sexual abuse scandal hits the church, words from its ministers can be indicative of how bad things really are. The reputation of the Southern Baptist church is on the line, but so is the welfare of the people it serves.
- Oklahoma’s priorities are outlined in the state budget approved by the Legislature (Note: This podcast was recorded before Gov. Kevin Stitt’s vetoed parts of the budget bill on Thursday, May 26). There are quite a few winners, and public education is the big loser.
- Previewing weekend guest columns on homelessness, the Osage Nation's perspective of the "Killers of the Flower Moon" movie, and just in time for Memorial Day, a profile on the namesake of Tulsa's McLain High School, Lt. Gen. Raymond McLain.
- Ways to help veterans this Memorial Day weekend through legislation
Related stories:
Editorial: After the nation grieves, what's to be done next?
NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre
Dec. 18, 2012 editorial: Terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook; Will shootings prompt change?
Bob Doucette: For Southern Baptists, a reckoning over sexual abuse is overdue
'Heartbroken and sickened': Oklahoma church leaders react to Southern Baptist sex-abuse allegations
Gov. Kevin Stitt calls for special session of Legislature for 'real tax reform'
House sends budget to governor but postpones final adjournment
Editorial: Lots of winners in the Oklahoma budget; public education, mental health are big losers
Ginnie Graham: Oklahoma teachers showing gains in pay, but student investment sliding toward the bottom
Editorial: Of course student test scores are down, so don't starve them of resources
Editorial: Legislative leaders make bold move to seize power from governor on ARPA funds
Late WWII Lt. Gen. Raymond McLain honored at Tulsa high school that bears his name
Column: Osage citizens were shaped, not defined, by the Reign of Terror
Column: Let go of the blame game
Things to do over Memorial Day weekend
Ginnie Graham: Political middle must help America find its backbone
Contact the writers
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
Click here to submit a letter to the editor
Support the show: https://tulsaworld.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
39 min - State legislature's strictest anti-abortion law
In this episode, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette address HB 4327, which allows lawsuits against abortion providers at any point after fertilization. It is similar to one enacted by Texas a year ago, except the Texas law makes abortion illegal after six weeks of pregnancy.
What does this mean for Oklahoma families in the future? The state's youth already ranks high for dealing with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The state legislature's focus on anti-abortion laws takes away from dealing with other pressing issues in Oklahoma.
Also discussed:
- Why is Oklahoma's legislature moving to take control of state's federal COVID-19 relief funds?
- Why is there a baby formula shortage? It is easy to make it a political issue in an election year, but it is more complicated, involving trade policies and more. And please don't tell moms to "just breast feed."
- Previewing guest columns as high school and college graduate time arrives, plus advice from Ginnie and Bob for the graduates
- Welcome to all of our visitors for the PGA Championship, Ironman and Tulsa Tough. A reminder of what the area has to offer outside of these events, from museums to walking trails
Related stories:
Oklahoma House sends abortion bill modeled after Texas law to governor
Bob Doucette: Fox interview with Gov. Stitt exposes holes in pro-life policies
Breaking the Cycle: The Tulsa World's 8-day series on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Legislature moves to take control of state's federal COVID-19 relief funds
House committee opens investigation of state park restaurant deal
State to get refund for $2.6 million purchase of hydroxychloroquine
Oklahoma Watch: Families use pandemic school supply funds to buy Christmas trees, gaming consoles and Hundreds of TVs
Editorial: Oklahoma Broadband Expansion Act deserves support
Senate advances measure to deal with nursing shortage
Editorial: Baby formula shortage exposes delicate food chain ecosystem
Column: Imagine being the first class to start every tradition
Bob Doucette: My go-to places to take people who are new to Tulsa
Ginnie Graham: Oklahoma teachers showing gains in pay, but student investment sliding toward the bottom
Contact the writers
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
Click here to submit a letter to the editor
Support the show: https://tulsaworld.com/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
36 min - Homelessness is a heavy issue
In this episode, Ginnie Graham and Bob Doucette address homelessness in the Tulsa area, including proposed changes to a city ordinance that would make it easier for police officers to remove homeless people from the streets or other public rights of way and would subject them to fines and possible jail time or both.
Are there housing solutions rather than just having police solve this?
Also discussed:
- Roe vs. Wade: Can tribes provide abortion services in Oklahoma despite state law changes? If the SCOTUS decision overturned, it will cause a lot of uncertainty and debate.
- Several Oklahoma Supreme Court justices took state Attorney General John O’Connor to task for not being more active in what some view as a $760 million ratepayer-funded bailout of OG&E for its fuel costs from the February 2021 cold snap.
- With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, an opinion column by Beverly Thompson says "I want people to know I am a face of mental illness."
- Data released in the past couple of weeks show Oklahoma far behind in per-pupil spending but making small steps in the rankings for teacher pay. However, the surrounding states are making greater investments in teacher salaries, opening the door to a backslide.
- Among the corrections sought in the unraveling of the Swadley’s Bar-B-Q state contract is a request from Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell to give power back to an oversight commission.
- The Oklahoma Legislature is considering Senate Joint Resolution 43, which would ask voters to repeal constitutional reforms put into place after a 1967 judicial scandal that gained national attention.
- Bob Doucette previews his weekend column on his go-to places to take people who are new to Tulsa
- Summer is here. PGA Championship events are next week at Tulsa's Southern Hills
Related stories:
40% more people living on the streets in Tulsa, annual headcount finds
Proposed local law would allow police to remove homeless people from sidewalks, other public rights of way
Broad-daylight attack leaves ‘weird feeling’ in downtown Tulsa, says hotel manager still on medical leave
Bob Doucette: We're failing our homeless, and we're failing ourselves
Ginnie Graham: Complicated landscape for tribal nations wanting to offer abortion safe haven
Political notebook: Oklahoma House of Representatives looks at the big picture
Column: It's worth the journey of peaks and valleys to have good brain health
Ginnie Graham: Oklahoma teachers showing gains in pay, but student investment sliding toward the bottom
House committee opens investigation of state park restaurant deal
Editorial: Solution to lack of budget oversight is reinstating power to a commission
Column: Should the Oklahoma Legislature control the state's judicial branch?
Fore and before: 18 destinations to aim for during PGA Championship week in Tulsa
Contact the writers
Editorial Editor Ginnie Graham: Email | Twitter | Follow her stories
Editorial Writer Bob Doucette: Email | Twitter | Follow his stories
Click here to submit a letter to the editor
Support the show: https://tulsaworld.com/
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About Tulsa World Opinion
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Tulsa World Editorials editor Ginnie Graham talks with newsmakers and op-ed contributors about the biggest issues in Tulsa and Oklahoma.
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