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With the sign of my pen I put an end to a few weeks of contract negotiations and officially began my 10th year in Oklahoma. Does that make me an …

I apparently do not post that often anymore. Well I have never been a very frequent blogger, but this post has been rolling around for a while in my head …

Phil’s Note:  This was written several weeks prior to posting when I decided to start blogging again…unfortunately it was written just before life got very crazy with the Oklahoma natural …

The murders of Taylor Placker and Skyla Whitaker were really the first big story I ever reported on in my news career. Sure I had worked behind the scenes and …

If you watch the news, then you probably know the news lingo. They are those highly predictable phrases that seem to pop up in story after story. I had a …

A friend of mine recently put out a call for people to talk about their college classes and what classes best prepared them for life in the media. The question …

I wanted to find a way to convey just how interesting and diverse a life in news is, so after doing a story about a guy who created a cool …

Eric and Jennifer Lotz have a heart for Haiti. From the first time I met them, they talked about the Haitians and their desire to return to the country and …

If you take a trip down almost any rural road in Oklahoma you’ll come across some of the most American stories. On this trip to a small farm north of …

The Red Dirt Rebellion is Oklahoma’s only all-female, banked-track roller derby league. If you think you know roller-derby, think again.