About a year ago, a group of young adults attending a party in rural Oklahoma made a tragic decision. One of the people there had ordered a synthetic or “designer” drug off the [...]
This past week, most of the action in the House was in Conference Committees meeting to pass legislation. Several measures made it to the floor and several were also passed into law, with the Governor’s signature.
Two books by local authors were a part of my reading material completed last week. Last night I finished “Keepin’ It Together” by Virginia Frantz of Guymon. It’s a young readers book, guessing maybe third grade level, although I don’t really have a clue. The story is told by [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a definition of successful. Linda Ward shared it with me and I thought it was a good thing to talk about. Success is something we always hope to achieve, but often it seems we get it and don’t realize we have. We might be so [...]
Oklahomans, like citizens throughout the country, continue to watch the economy and hope for positive signs. After two years of monthly revenue collection reports indicating slow but steady growth, March marked the first [...]
Last week there were several bills that passed through the House dealing with a variety of subjects. This included public safety, prescription drugs, pro-life bills, a bill selling unused state property and changes to the firefighter tax credit system. This would help rural fire departments.
As many other states struggle to recover from the current recession, Oklahoma continues to build on its forward momentum. The latest evidence of the positive trend in Oklahoma’s economy comes in the form of a national survey of small business owners by the Kauffman Foundation, an organization that promotes entrepreneurship, and Thumbtack.com, [...]