Voters may request a ballot by mail (the deadline is 15 days prior to the election date). Early voting is also available at the County Election Board on specified dates. You may vote in person on elec...

As a Member of Congress, I have the honor of nominating students from the Second District to our country’s prestigious service academies. The decision to apply to a service academy is an incredibly pe...

Letter to the Editor: (Evelyn Gulley was a candidate for city council in 2021) I would never have run for city council in the middle of my husband’s terminal illness if my late husband and I had not f...

The musical Back to the Bee Gees will be held Nov. 12 at Legacy On Main Street. This is a dinner/show. Admission to the show alone is $35. For the dinner and show, admission is $65. Doors open at 6 p....

Due to October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I will once again do my part to shine a light on this horrific plight in our community. However, I WISH (or should I say W.I.S.H. which stands f...

OKLAHOMA CITY – There is an old saying about never meeting your heroes for fear of being let down. I am sure there are many examples in which people can point to which would demonstrate this. I have b...

This week, I’ll present during an interim study before the House Common Education Committee examining fourday schools. The study is hosted by Rep. Danny Sterling and took place Wednesday, Oct. 12, beg...

Rural Oklahomans face a set of unique challenges accessing quality health care. I’ve introduced a few bills over the past week to address these needs and improve health outcomes in the Second District...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Fall Forum, the annual policy conference for the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA), will be celebrating its 22nd year of bringing together advocacy organizations for childre...

Last week, the House met in special session to distribute a portion of Oklahoma’s $1.8 billion in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. Because of my background as a psychologist, I was asked...

One-party Democrat rule in Washington is not working. Their outof- touch policies and reckless spending have led our country down a path Americans can’t afford. The Republican Commitment to America is...

On Sunday afternoon after church, I was feeling a little restless and decided to pack a little picnic lunch and head out to Honor Heights Park. As I went under the arch entrance, I wondered how many t...

State law requires that you register to vote according to your address of residence. You may vote in person on election day only at the polling place to which you are assigned based on the address whe...

Isn’t it funny that the older we get, the more childhood memories seem to flood our minds. These precious memories, some funny, some sad, some happy and some even mad, are what we cherish so dearly. F...

The Legislature is meeting this week to reconvene our second extraordinary session. We called this special session in May to give us time in the interim to consider projects that applied for a portion...

Every life lost to suicide is one too many, and the prevalence among our nation’s veterans is alarming. In fact, military suicide rates are four times higher than deaths that occurred during military ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – There is hopefully good news coming soon for many Oklahoma expectant mothers. The Helping Every Life and Parent, or HELP Task force was convened by the governor to look at ways to supp...

When I think of my great grandmother Pluma Stumpff, I think of the Proverbs 31 woman. “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” She works with her hands, brings food from afa...

To the Editor: So Markwayne Mullin thinks President Biden should apologize to Oklahomans for … what? Telling the truth? Doing what’s right? Things that Mullin has never done the entire time he’s been ...

Last week, Joe Biden stood in front of a crowd in Pittsburgh and delivered one of the most divisive speeches I have ever heard from an American president. Joe Biden ran a presidential campaign suppose...