Legislature will answer Governor Stitt’s Special Session call
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Democracy/Criminal Justice Reporter For the third consecutive year, Oklahoma lawmakers will return to the Capitol for a fall special session. Gov.
Choctaw Countians have grit...
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the point While Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and members of the legislature and tribal governments battle back and forth over who gets to drive the train, down here in Southeast Oklahoma, we just keep beating our drum like the Energizer bunny. We can’t help but take note of a number of building projects around Hugo at present, something that goes cold for months on end from time to time.
As go the schools... so goes the community...
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the point Publisher Public schools are routinely considered to be the anchor of the success of any community. You can’t have a successful community… without good public schools.
Speaker McCarthy announces the beginning of impeachment proceedings
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced on Tuesday the House will open an impeachment inquiry to investigate the possible involvement of President Joe Biden in the business dealings of his son Hunter Biden.
Biden falters in Vietnam remarks...
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In a series of non sequiturs and tangents that grew increasingly bizarre toward the tail end of a global press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, which had been scheduled to cap off the G20 summit in New Delhi, President Joe Biden made the pronouncement that he’s “going to go to bed.” Moments later, press aides called an end to the conference, seemingly in an effort to usher him off stage.
1,600 scientists say ‘there is no climate emergency’
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International scientists have jointly signed a declaration dismissing the existence of a climate crisis and insisting that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth. “There is no climate emergency,” the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) said in its World Climate Declaration, made public in August.
Rep. Humphrey speaks out about federal raid on Clayton firearms dealer
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, submitted a letter last week to the state’s Attorney General, to the sheriff of Pushmataha County, to the governor and to other judicial and law enforcement agencies asking for an investigation into an alleged raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on a Pushmataha County resident and business owner that resulted in the forfeiture of the man’s federal firearms license.
Here comes Fall!
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the point The last 50 days have been pretty big bummers for most of Southeast Oklahoma’s ag-producers as the lack of rainfall has brought dry-parched fields and scant second hay cuttings. As area schools spool back up, the amount of family hustle and bustle ratchets up as well.
You reap what you sow...
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the point Publisher I can’t remember any time in my life when the social fabric of our nation has been so messed up. We have always had issues and even problems, but today’s society is almost nuts.
Trump battles politicized prosecution
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A federal judge has ordered a second evidentiary hearing for the removal of cases filed against former President Donald Trump and 18 others in Fulton County, Ga., according to a Saturday report. Trump and the others have been charged with alleged violations of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in their challenge of the 2020 election results by District Attorney Fani Willis.
