Recently we had the opportunity to have lunch with a young, newly married friend whom we haven’t seen in a few months. After the usual banter and light gossip about the lives of mutual friends, we asked about his life now that he had been a husband for a while.

Two big annual events in Choctaw County last week included the Choctaw County Junior Livestock Show and the Chamber of Commerce annual Awards Banquet. Both events appropriately are intended to reward outstanding individual effort.

The House on Thursday approved legislation aimed at strengthening background checks on firearm sales and transfers, a leading priority for Democratic lawmakers. The Bipartisan Background Checks Act — spearheaded by Rep.

Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) “Universal background checks are a commonsense approach to address the gun violence epidemic plaguing our country. I’m proud to support the Background Check Expansion Act and look forward to passing it and other much-needed reforms.

Congressman Markwayne Mullin says Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to grab guns now that Democrats control Congress and the White House.

OKLAHOMA CITY –– A bill allowing boards of education to adopt policies authorizing school personnel to carry firearms on school campuses passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives last Tuesday evening.

Congratulations to the Hugo Buffaloes, both boys and girls teams, for their historic dual trip to the Oklahoma State basketball playoffs. It appears to be the only time in the school’s history that both teams have earned trips at the same time, so they are deserving of some major kudos.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sen. Rob Standridge, R-Norman, has won approval from the full Senate for Senate Joint Resolution 23, calling for an Article V Convention of States to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Multiple major missile strikes on a convoy of oil tanker trucks and a refinery in northern Syria lit up the night sky last week.

Senate Republicans have officially released our agenda for 2021, with the goal of helping our state recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and become a state that grows, thrives and prospers again.