I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July holiday celebrating our freedoms with your family and friends. I enjoyed the long weekend and feel so incredibly blessed to live in the greatest country in the world.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Justin JJ Humphrey, R-Lane, has presented Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor with a proposed lawsuit against the Biden Administration for what he calls an utter failure to protect the nation’s borders.

First United Bank announced that it has been named to Forbes’ 2022 ranking of America’s Best Banks.

Comments to: andybowman839@ gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Andy was once approached by two of his church members, military men, who asked him to become an Army chaplain.

Summertimes are usually somewhat laid back here in Southeast Oklahoma, except perhaps for the dozen hay crews working feverishly to roll up thousands of bales of hay.

Here in Oklahoma, one of the main topics of conversation is the weather, but I’d say transportation is right after that. People want to know when a road they rely on is going to be repaired, or how long before all the darn road construction is finally done.

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There’s a lot of dust in the air across Oklahoma’s political roadways at present, as successful candidates making runoffs burn rubber and shoe-leather trying to circle the wagons and garner as much support as possible.

Oklahoma residents will be governed by as many as 350 new laws that have gone into place since July 1. The new laws range from capping prices on insulin sold in the state to state vehicle titles and taxes.

The Biden administration’s announcement that it will release 180 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over six months is unlawful and harms our national security.