This week we started to hear Senate Bills on the House floor. The deadline to finish hearing bills from the opposite chamber is next Thursday, April 27. So far, we’ve heard several House and Senate bi...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Four decades ago, Oklahoma children who were in the custody of the state faced horrific conditions, both in the facilities in which they were housed, and with the treatment they receiv...

The older I get the more I have come to realize that peace is the most important element in your life, but if someone or something is constantly disrupting that peace then it’s time to let them go. I’...

- Two cars of cattle were shipped Saturday by Turner & Parkinson to St. Louis. - F.B. Severs shipped eight car loads of cattle Saturday to St. Louis. - One of the Sac & Fox braves started on a trip to...

Last week, I presented Senate Bill 706, which I have authored on the House side. The bill amends one aspect of court hearings for foster children, but would have a huge impact to ensure these kids hav...

Corruption seems to be everywhere nowadays but corruption in small towns hits a little closer to home and my heart. Just over 27 years ago, my baby boy was going to be turning one and I wanted to cele...

We are over halfway through this year’s legislative session. This week House Bill 2398 and House Bill 2684 passed Senate Committees and will continue to progress through the legislative process. You’v...

Oklahomans have had plenty of opportunities to vote lately. They could weigh in on several local and county races on April 4. For some, it was the fourth or fifth time in five months they’d been eligi...

Everyone has different influential people who come into their lives and change them for the better. Most of us have a few influencers who mold and make us into who we are or who we are becoming. Paren...

My constituent, Mayor Lelia Foley-Davis, was honored with a citation on the House floor, cele brating her 50 anniversar y as being elected mayor of Taft, Oklahoma. She was born the youngest child of t...

OKLAHOMA CITY – It is springtime, and the legislative session is moving forward reaching the halfway mark of the 2023 session. The Oklahoma Legislature is embroiled in heated debates over substantial ...

As long as I can remember I have always spent Easter Sunday in the house of the Lord. We always wore our Sunday best and had Easter dinner together and an egg hunt afterwards. Of course, I grew up in ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Legislature reached its second major deadline, and several thousand bills have been either rejected in their houses of origin or were simply not heard. Up to now, House bi...

Inflation remains at a 40-year high, and House Republicans are committed to providing Oklah omans muchneeded relief. Americans across the nation are feeling the burden of the federal government’s out-...

Oklahoma’s oddly persistent caste-like rainfall pattern—with those to the north and west of Interstate 44 seeing near-record dryness and those to the south and east experiencing abundance—continued du...

OKLAHOMA CITY – OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) is pleased to be working this year on a project with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma that will raise awareness about acc...

State Question 820 failed, sending a clear message that Oklahomans oppose unfettered access to marijuana. This is an opportunity for the Legislature to reexamine reforms of the medical marijuana indus...

The power of a name is quite profound. I believe a person’s name is one of the greatest connections to their own identity and individuality. A name ties you to your past ancestry and it ties your chil...

To the Editor: It seems to be a very short time since Sue and I moved to Eufaula, but it has been nearly 36 years. We are thankful that we were lead here in 1987. During this time, our daughter and tw...

There is nothing more surreal than the beauty of God’s timing. As I walked through over 150,000 tulips at the “Tulip Extravaganza” in Garvan Gardens in Hot Springs, AR this weekend I stood in awe of H...