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Wages haven’t kept up — and working families are paying the price
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By Gabriela Ramirez-Perez For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no l…

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Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants
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From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people feel helpless, too small to change the injustices of the system. Don’t bo…

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Mazzei’s Flip Flop
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Helter smelter! Mike Mazzei was against a smelter at Inola before he was for it! What changed? It’s simple: Donald Trump endorsed Mazzei for governor and Mazzei, in turn, endorsed Trump’s smelter. Making aluminum is an expensive, dirt…

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Drummond Lied
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According to fact checking by The Frontier, an Oklahoma news site, state Attorney General and governor hopeful Gentner Drummond’s boasts of being an entirely self-made millionaire are “mostly false.” During a recent debate among GOP guberna…

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MULLIN’S MASTER
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Cutting Workers Cuts Consumers
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The last week of May saw calls for regulating artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity coming from widely varying sources. And the gist of the arguments can be traced back more than 100 years to two equally dispar…

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The Man At The Corner With The Bucket
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I was stopped at a red light when I noticed a man on the sidewalk pouring water over his head. He had a big bucket and a cup that he filled with water from the bucket to dump over his head. At first, I thought he mi…

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The Present Breaks The Past’s Heart
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Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from Wisconsin to California when I was eight. Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis …

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THE SUPREMELY POLITICAL COURT
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ICE Protests Growing
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Major protests have happened for months at the ICE Detention Center in Delaney Hall, NJ. After a detainee Jean Wilson Brutus’ death on Dec. 19, protests and ice reinforcement have only begun to ramp up. And as suspected, the cause of…

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CARBON CURRENCY
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Nutty Is As Nutty Does
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Three Republican pogos in the far right corner. A fighter pilot, lawyer, job creator, big time banker and successful farmer/rancher in the other. Chip Keating, Mike Mazzei and Charles McCall – KMM going forward – all lambasted the …

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The Investigation Of E. Jean Carroll
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President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time I think he and his minions could stoop no lower, they surprise me. There is simply no limit to Trump’s…

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ALL ABOUT HIM
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Bigots Always Find Something To Hate
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Pearl-clutching, flakey snowflake bigots! Listen up! You have something new to hate. On July 17, director Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Ithaca’s most famous son, will premiere. And, horror of…

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GOONIES
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A Primary PSA
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Consider this a friendly, two-part public service announcement. First, Monday is the deadline to request an absentee ballot for June 16’s primary elections, including the statewide vote on SQ 832, the proposal that would increase the minimu…

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WHAT’S UP, DOC?
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The Kid Vs. The Crook
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A classic in Baja Oklahoma, aka Texas, where the choices for United States senator could not be more stark – Republican nominee Ken Paxton’s situation is unstable, while Democratic nominee James Talarico’s offers generational change…

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June, 2026
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