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Tracy Smallwood is grateful for the life she’s worked to build after leaving prison. — Quinton Chandler / StateImpact Oklahoma

Bill Making Some Crimes Retroactive Could Have Unintended Consequences

Tracy Smallwood says her life before she went to prison was just “dead time.”

Commercial Development In Oklahoma City Expands

Capitol Insider: Sen. Kay Floyd Talks Executive Power And Education

Y'all Heard? An Argument For The Great Southern Pronoun

By Patrick Jarenwattananon • Mar 9, 2019

Listen up, y'all: Perhaps even Yankees should start saying "y'all."

That's an argument put forth by Catherine Davies, a professor of linguistics at the University of Alabama, in a collection of essays titled Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language (edited by Thomas E. Nunnally). Davies' essay includes a section with the heading "A Southern Improvement to the Pronoun System."

"Well, I would say that Southern English is doing a great job," she says in an interview with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition.

KGOU Listener Profile: John Sumida

By Laura Knoll • Mar 9, 2019

Claire Donnelly with listener John Sumida — Jolly Brown / KGOU

An Oklahoma transplant from Hawaii, KGOU listener John Sumida likes the different viewpoints and perspectives he gets from public radio.

Q: Please tell us about yourself.

John Sumida: My name is John Sumida and I live in Norman. I grew up in Hawaii. I've lived in Honolulu, Seattle, San Diego and now Norman, and every time I move to a new location that's one of the first things that I do is find the local public radio stations and program them into my radio.

Paula Poundstone Discusses Her Quest For Happiness

By Jim Johnson • Mar 8, 2019

Paula Poundstone is perhaps best known in public radio circles for her role as a panelist on NPR’s "Wait… Wait… Don’t Tell Me!," but her humorous take on life has been in public view for nearly 40 years. Comedy Central considers her among the top 100 comedians of all time, and she’s authored two books. Her latest, “The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness,” documents her personal search for bliss.

Commentary: Can Oklahoma Eliminate Overdose Deaths?

By John Henning Schumann • Mar 8, 2019

Oklahoma has been making progress in fighting the opioid epidemic. But there's still a lot of work to be done.

The Austin 100

By Stephen Thompson • Mar 8, 2019

Every year in March, thousands of musicians from around the world converge on Texas' capital city for the SXSW Music Festival. It's a remarkable banquet of music discovery that spans many genres, most continents, dozens of clubs across Austin, hundreds of parties and nearly a full week. It's a lot to digest, even for festival veterans. (2019 will be my 23rd year at SXSW.)

How Curious Returns for New Season

By Dick Pryor • Mar 6, 2019

This is the Manager’s Minute.

KGOU’s popular How Curious podcast returned this week for a new season of interesting stories about our state, its history and culture. Claire Donnelly produces How Curious and you can catch the new segments over the next several weeks, and on demand on Apple Podcast and Spotify.

The media world is constantly changing, and How Curious is another way KGOU is evolving to better serve our audience – YOU.

DNC Bars Fox News From Hosting 2020 Primary Debates

By Jessica Taylor • Mar 6, 2019

Updated at 7:27 p.m. ET

The Democratic National Committee will not allow Fox News to broadcast any of its 2020 presidential primary debates, citing a recent report about the close relationship between the Trump administration and the conservative cable network.

"I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters. That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including FOX News," DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement Wednesday.