On this installment of ST, we speak with Wayne Greene, the editorial pages editor at the Tulsa World. As noted at the World's website, Greene is a "fourth-generation Oklahoman in his third decade with the [newspaper]. As a reporter he covered several bank failures, one prison riot, three executions, and every aspect of state government during four years at the World's state capitol bureau. He became the World's city editor on April 1, 1995, and served in that post for nearly 13 years. He led the city desk's award-winning coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the 2002 collapse of an Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River, several natural disasters, and six general elections." We speak with Greene about a piece that he had in the World recently under the headline, "Days of reckoning approach at the state Capitol, where political courage is in short supply." That piece begins thus: "It's May, and that means it's time for the
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