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...

As I said in my last article, few decisions have been as controversial as the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade. As such I could not cover everything in one article. Last time I discussed the courts and ...

Dear Editor, I am writing to bring attention to a matter we have recently encountered with the usage of the George C. Fussell Community Center located at Texanna Fire Department. McIntosh County GOP h...

First, let me state for the record that I literally loathe gossip and politics. Being from a small town, I have learned that there is a huge difference between being newsy and being down right nosey. ...

The Friends of the Library will meet Sept. 28 at 11:30 a.m. The Buzz Brothers featuring Angelina Villegas will be performing for us at noon. Lunch is $6 and the program is free to attend. Please join ...

144 Years Ago Wednesday, November 28, 1878 Bad Meat Santa Paula, Calif. - A magistrate condemned a lot of meat seized from a butcher of that town for being spoiled by age and unfit for foood, and orde...

The State Election Board website at www. oklahoma.gov/elections contains voter registration data, forms and applications, election dates and deadlines, sample ballots, election results and a lot of ot...

OKLAHOMA CITY – With the end of summer, we are getting close to the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy’s Fall Forum. This conference, to be October 11 – 13 at MetroTech in Oklahoma City, will assem...

Experts say that by the 23rd week of pregnancy, babies are able to hear music in the womb. I’m positive that I heard music while in my mother’s womb and my children did the same since we were undoubte...

Wednesday, Aug. 31, is National Overdose Awareness Day, and I want to take this time to discuss the recent surge of fentanyl analogues and the danger they pose to our communities. Fentanyl is a contro...

Two weeks ago, I attended the 2022 Early Childhood Leadership Summit in Phoenix. This group is a bipartisan gathering from all 50 states. There are four things that the conference aims to do: 1) ident...

A person who is at least 18 years old, a United States citizen, an Oklahoma resident and a registered voter in this county is eligible to vote. An application for new voter registration or for a chang...

This week, I was in Arizona for the Hunt-Kean Leadership Conference. The conference is a bipartisan gathering of state teams comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, and some of the...