Body Property owners are coming to realize that their ad valorem taxes are continuing to go up basically every year. In many cases, they increase at or near the state’s legal 5% cap. So every 10 years they go up by 50% and every 20 years they will double.

Body Both parents and school board officials across Oklahoma are continuing to get “mixed signals” concerning school policies that allow students to choose bathrooms based on the student’s self-proclaimed gender identity.

Body We’ve officially completed the bulk of committee work for this session after the April 14 deadline to hear measures that originated in the House in our Senate committees, and vice versa, the House completed their work on the bills we have approved.

Body Imagine you had been “off the grid” for the past two years and suddenly you find yourself re-engaged in American life... and business.

Body Members of the Oklahoma Senate have rejected legislation, advanced from the Oklahoma House of Representatives, that would have padded many legislators’ own retirement benefits.

Body While a spokesperson for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister says Oklahoma public schools must allow students to use the bathroom of their choice, based on the student’s self-professed gender identity, and cannot restrict bathroom access based on biological...

Body Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com What has happened to “I gotta go to work” anyway? Seems so many so-called adults have just decided that holding a job is for the birds.

Body As the U.S. and world markets attempt to recover and return to some degree of normalcy after two years of COVID-19 ravaged most of the world, another global calamity has elbowed its way into our lives in the form of a brutal and deadly war in Ukraine.

Body McALESTER — Nellie Meashintubby believes that tribal sovereignty means the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma should have not only criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans within its reservation, but should govern in civil matters, too.

Body Way back in 1954 author Darrell Huff wrote a book that probably became one of the best political primers of all time... How to Lie with Statistics.