OKLAHOMA CITY – The Legislature is in its second deadline week, when bills must pass out of the “house of origin,” meaning House bills must pass out of the House of Representatives, and Senate bills m...

Stories from the past 147 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 2, 1876 From the Parsons Record Gen. Merritt has about 400 men with him on the trail of Crazy Horse’s band, and as the Fifth cavalry is the best ...

Every year in mid-March, we recognize a week to celebrate the importance of open government and access to public information. Sunshine Week, which this year runs from March 10 to 16, promotes open mee...

I rarely get personal with my articles, but this week’s subject resonates with me. One of the hardest days of my life was when a doctor confirmed to my wife and me what we already suspected – that my ...

Ok I’m going to say this loud and proud - I’m a hover mom and I’m not ashamed to admit it. I’m also a hover aunt because my brothers’ children and grandchildren are also my bloodline. So I am very pro...

Oklahoma is in the throes of an epidemic, and it is called fentanyl. A synthetic opioid, fentanyl is as addictive as it is deadly. It is 50 times stronger than heroin, cheap to produce - and destroyin...

Funding for students begging ‘Help me!’ On the day that 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley opened fire in his Michigan high school, a teacher found a graphic drawing of gun violence with disturbing phrases. T...

Personally I have never been a fan of politics on any platform. However, the politics of life seem to be getting more and more out of hand today. The politics of life not only refer to the activities ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Words: the foundation of language, simple letters strung together to form a word. Then words are used to create sentences, then paragraphs, and eventually complete stories shared betwe...

The Oklahoma House of Representatives is returning for the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature on Monday, February 5. We completed bill filing on Jan. 18 with 1,210 House Bills, 12 House Jo...

Safe Places Possible For All Students In my previous article, written after the tragic shooting in Iowa, I described the crisis in public schools related to students with a high potential for violence...

OKLAHOMA CITY – For you NFL fans out there, if you watched the late game on Sunday, you saw the Kansas City Chiefs come away with a narrow win against the Buffalo Bills. While the game was great, ther...

My pastor this past Sunday preached the best message entitled “Tune Your Heart to Truth” and the difference between a liar and a lyre. While we all know a liar is a person who speaks lies and a lyre i...

When I was in college back in the 1990s, I like so many other students began getting my political commentary Monday through Thursday nights on Comedy Central with The Daily Show with John Stewart. Whi...

OKLAHOMA CITY – January is Mental Wellness Awareness Month, a time to recognize the importance of attending to our own personal mental health, especially seeing the significant numbers of the populati...

Life is not fair. That is for certain for everyone and everything at some point. Life isn’t fair because we live in a complex and chaotic world that most of the time is unpredictable. With this random...

“Genius begins great works. Labor alone finishes them.” – Joseph Joubert

Mostly Educational Pure terror unfolded in Perry, Iowa recently, when a student did the unthinkable. Lives were lost, people were injured, and everyone was devastated. A school shooting is the nightma...

From the Courier Independent Well, we hope she may but at the same time she is not likely to do it until she can manage in some way to shake off the thieving leeches in the Indian Territory, who have ...

When I was a little girl I couldn’t wait for it to snow so my older brothers and I could go sledding down the hill at my childhood homestead. If there was enough snow, Daddy would even hook up his lit...