None of us can completely control all the things that happen to us. Yet, when it comes to achieving your long-term financial goals, including a comfortable retirement, you do have a great deal of powe...

Acknowledgment The family of Mr. Elmer D. Cunningham would like to thank everyone for their kind expressions. Your phone calls, visits, flowers, thoughts and prayers have all helped greatly during our...

The Boston Globe released Senator Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test results. The analysis, done by a Stanford University professor, showed that Warren has somewhere between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native Ameri...

To the Editor Oct. 21-28 is National Friends of Libraries Week. Members of Friends of Eufaula Memorial Library sent the following letters praising the work and the importance of the organization and o...

When any patient goes to the doctor, they can—and should—expect to receive the gold standard of treatment. However, one 40-year-old law in desperate need of modernization is preventing doctors from pr...

To raise awareness about the importance of saving for retirement, Congress has dedicated Oct. 21-27 as National Retirement Security Week. And the evidence shows that increasing this awareness is indee...

FOR THE CHILDREN: It is around this time of year that I get excited for new opportunities. We are less than a month away from the General Election in Oklahoma (the deadline to register, or change your...

  In this week’s Mullin It Over, I’d like to take the time to answer a few of the questions that I’ve heard from my constituents recently about Social Security solvency. Protecting Social Security is ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma’s voter rolls have surged since January, with nearly 2.1 million voters now registered as of the end of September, State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax said Friday. Offi...

Your values are important to you – and so are your investments. But you don’t have to keep these two parts of your life separate if you pursue sustainable investing. If you haven’t heard of this term,...

FOR THE CHILDREN: Birthdays are sometimes odd. When you are younger, you look forward to each of them as a step closer to the freedoms that come with adulthood. Later on, they can become a less appeal...

  When President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law last December, good things started happening. New IRS withholding tables went into place. Businesses saw opportunities to invest in the...

We’re officially in autumn – the season when we bring in what we planted in the spring. But the concept of planting and gathering isn’t confined to agriculture. In fact, it can be used in many walks o...

To succeed as an investor, you might think you need to know about the economy, interest rates and the fundamentals of companies in which you’d like to invest. And all these things are indeed important...

The public is invited to the University of Central Oklahoma’s Mass Communication Department’s annual media ethics conference to hear national and international speakers address modern tribalism and po...

For the Children: Birthdays are sometimes odd. When you are younger, you look forward to each of them as a step closer to the freedoms that come with adulthood. Later on, they can become a less appeal...

Last week as we remembered the unthinkable attacks of terrorism 17 years ago, national security is on all of our minds. Often, national security is thought of as the need to protect Americans from evi...

For the Children: It is important to have people in your life who will motivate you at a young age to achieve beyond what others might feel is possible.   Having someone who believes in you can make a...

Thank You The family of Michael Therndon would like to thank Big Arbor Church, Hanna Church, the Volunteer fireman out at Eagle Bluff and also Camron Benson for being there for our brother who fell of...

Retirement isn’t cheap. You may have heard that you will need 70 percent to 80 percent of your pre-retirement income, but the real figure might even be higher, depending on your circumstances. And ret...