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Hunter was appointed attorney general in 2017 by former Gov. Mary Fallin after then-attorney general Scott Pruitt was named head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Hunter won election to a four-year term in 2018 and was planning to run for another term next year. O’Connor did not respond to an email inquiry Thursday about being named attorney general. He will be in office for only a little under 18 months unless he runs and wins election to the job. He was born in Tulsa in 1954, received a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in 1977 and his law degree from the Univers...

A new employee's success is often contingent on how well they are trained. Their future successes and failures can often be traced back to the quality of their onboarding.

Context matters. It is unacceptable to use racial slurs as pejoratives. It is also unacceptable to construct a taboo that would forbid the printing or utterance of racial slurs even when, as is in this article, the context is the racial slur as a word itself, not as a pejorative. Word taboos that disregard context are a first step on a slippery slope to the squelching of thoughts and opinions. John M. O’Connor To the Editor: The Times is to be commended for running Prof. John McWhorter’s detailed — and well-documented — article about the history and use of the N-word because it sets t...