Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
BY HEIDE BRANDES | DEC 8 2019 In summer 2019, visitors to Oklahoma’s Chickasaw National Recreation Area’s Lake of the Arbuckles met a new line of defense in ...
When Dylan Jennings, a member of the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe, was a child, he and his family loaded on canoes to prowl the waters of northern Wisconsin,...
Jo Licata wasn’t sure what to do with the 6-foot-tall stuffed dinosaur in her office. The massive Barney doll had been left at the Hilton San Francisco Union...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Tamara Harvell of Tulsa was working a full-time writing center position and a part-time lab adjunct position at a Tulsa college when she was ...
OKLAHOMA CITY/TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma parent Matt Reynolds backs a teachers' strike that has shut schools statewide, but each day it drags on is another he h...
Jim Couch, a network engineer in Oklahoma City who also lives in the city, along with his wife, learned early that if they ever wanted to switch their career...
It was a fortune teller who informed 7-year-old Jasmine Dolores Careen Burchell of her future. In 1941, Jasmine had but a few coins to spend at a country fa...
THE TWO-LEGGED PREDATORS Attacks on the trail are rare, but are you prepared? By Heide Brandes I was deep within the quiet wilderness of the Buffalo River T...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- In late summer 2016, heroin users were dropping dead at an astonishing rate in just one week in one small Ohio county. That county reported ...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Father Stanley Rother, a priest with the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, knew his name was on a kill list. In 1981, Fr. Rother had spent 13 y...
By Heide Brandes In 2012, more than 686,000 children in America were victims of abuse or maltreatment. Of those, 1,600 died from abuse and neglect, accordin...
From 2008 to 2013, America was hooked on the AMC series Breaking Bad, a dark show about a chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer who begins producing a...
Right to Farm Bill inspires strong support, rabid opposition on agriculture practices By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY - Talk to supporters of the Right To F...
October 1918 The Americans were losing World War I, the Great War, when 19 men from Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation set foot in southern France to fight for a coun...
Though US Won't Appeal Court Rulings on Lesser Prairie Chicken, Conservation Efforts See Success In Habitat, Population Numbers By Heide Brandes Although th...
Elephants in Africa are facing threats daily thanks to poaching, dramatic loss of habitat, disease and more. In the past 25 years, the population of African ...
Zane Woods is going to change the world. That change may not come today, it may not come tomorrow and it may not even come during Woods’ own lifetime, but h...
They marched nude by the hundreds through forests, by lakes and along mountain trails, with many hoping to go unnoticed. For the most part, national Hike Na...
OKLAHOMA CITY – A raft of proposed laws in socially conservative Oklahoma, criticized for being discriminatory measures aimed at limiting the rights of gay a...