Oklahoma Watch On Dec. 31, 2022, Oklahoma incarcerated 22,745 people, a 2.3% increase from 22,235 in December 2021. Oklahoma had the nation’s fourth-highest incarceration rate at the end of last year, trailing Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Oklahoma was one of four states where more than 1% of male residents were serving a prison sentence of one year or longer.

to point Publisher Most American citizens are well aware of the social unrest that has marched across our nation in the past few years. Numerous groups of people have organized representing social concepts ranging from the far left...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt said he didn’t know an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was going to ticket an Otoe-Missouria citizen for having a tribal license plate while living outside her tribe’s boundaries, but that he “100%” supports the action.

the point Sometimes it’s hard to take a step back and soak in all the positive things that touch our lives. Without a doubt there can be some rough roads, and some people have more than their share.

The billionaire founder of Home Depot and the nonpartisan Job Creators Network recently announced his support for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race. Bernie Marcus, 94, wrote in a RealClearPolitics opinion column that he supports Trump because “he is the best person to take on and dismantle the administrative state that is strangling America.” “We cannot let the America we see today be what we leave to our children and grandchildren,” Marcus wrote in the Thursday column.

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the point I’m still trying to get my arms around the concept that in many of our nation’s larger cities... crime is no longer illegal.

BY: CARMEN FORMAN AND NURIA MARTINEZ-KEEL OKLAHOMA CITY — Multiple Native American tribes said they were caught off guard last week by an alleged change in how the state enforces tribal license plate protocols.

New York Post Commentary Last week’s announcement by House Oversight Chair James Comer that he subpoenaed the president’s son Hunter and brother Jim, among other relatives, demonstrates that the investigation is now in a new phase, what Goodwin described as “if the preliminary stage is complete and the final act is about to unfold.”

the point So now Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt thinks it to be a good use of his time to travel to Israel to convey some kind of show of support to that beleaguered nation.