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Capital City lawmen need to be on high alert. Oklahoma legislators have returned to the Capitol. Their personal conduct this year has been less than stellar. Of course, their professional conduct has been nothing to brag about either. After frittering away the
Read moreI’ve never been a fan of irony. The just comeuppance has always seemed too obvious to be truly dramatic. And, that which can be irritating in the literature, becomes positively dangerous in the real world. A counterpart to President Trump’s
Read moreNIGER—On Oct. 4, four American soldiers died in an ambush in Niger after attending a meeting with local officials near the border between Niger and Mali. Reports say that one of them may have been bound and executed. We still don’t
Read moreI told those pesky Norwegians that, if they couldn’t find a better place to hold their ceremonies than Oslo, they could just give their dynamite prize to somebody else. I have to stay close to Oklahoma to keep up with
Read moreInstead of trying to keep up with the craziness in Washington and the laziness in OKC – where our lame duck governor will be calling the legislative turkeys home to roost again – let’s take a holiday break and look
Read moreRealizing the profound unfairness of a $1.50 per pack increase in the cigarette tax along with additional tax increases on the purchase of alcoholic beverages, I’ve been pondering some kind of holier-than-thou tax to complement the sin taxes that our
Read moreI don’t smoke. Once, I was a campfire cigar smoker, but a rainy afternoon with three cigars on a country porch broke me of that affectation. So, when our lethargic legislators finally finalize a budget, its most-ballyhooed fund-raising feature of a
Read moreAs predicted in this column last week, the alleged GOP budget was merely a smoke screen to try hide the Republicans’ complete capitulation to the state’s oil and gas industry. The governor and the Republican legislative failureship announced a bad
Read moreSun, wind and cannabis: Gov. Candidate Johnson encourages Oklahomans to utilize natural resources Jessica Lane/ Chickasha Express Star Sep 29 Chickasha – Connie Johnson, a 2018 Oklahoma Governor candidate, is encouraging Oklahoma to think differently to overcome the state’s setbacks
Read moreMonday, after frittering away a regular session and a not-so-special session recess that would have made the pre-K kids at Will Rogers proud, Gov. Mary Fallin and the Republican legislative failureship proclaimed their solution to their self-inflicted budget crisis. Much
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