the point Publisher Students at Hugo High School were given an opportunity this week to explore what their lives after high school might look like. Military service? Continuing education...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Just before Thanksgiving, Reps. Tom Gann, RInola, Kevin West, R-Moore, and Rick West, R-Heavener, filed a new brief asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to overturn a $127 million rate increase for OG&E as well as some $760 million of the utility’s ratepayer-backed bonds. Both were approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) with votes by embattled Commissioner Todd Hiett.

Washington, D.C. – President Donald J. Trump has signed U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin’s (R-OK), 9-8-8 Lifeline Cybersecurity Responsibility Act into law through the SUPPORT for Patients and Communications Reauthorization Act of 2025.

Dear Editor: Substance abuse is a serious social issue in Oklahoma. The state has one of the highest rates of substance misuse in the nation.

to point Publisher As this year’s Thanksgiving holiday comes upon us, I feel more grateful than usual about living in Southeast Oklahoma. I would like to put the U.S.

To The Editor: The days following the first frost of the season set off conditions for serious grass fires. Warm temperatures, dry conditions and high winds faced three adjacent property owners eight miles southeast of Hugo on Thursday, Nov.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector [SA&I] Cindy Byrd has released her forensic audit report for the Town of Bradley in Grady County. Byrd launched the investigation after receiving a citizen petition from Bradley residents.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Grandma Gertie is more than ready for Thanksgiving Day to arrive. For the first time in 17 years, she is going to have her entire family home for Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone has painstakingly arranged their holiday schedules to be able to be together at Grandma’s house.

to point Publisher Every year we join with regional residents in soaking up all the warm colors and gorgeous weather we experience each fall in Southeast Oklahoma. The fall pattern we are currently experiencing has given us all the usual weather patterns we typically enjoy, but without much in the way of rainfall.

Anew report from the Office of Inspector General within the Department of Health and Human Services shows multiple states made improper Medicaid payments to managed care organizations after enrollees had died, which exposes persistent fiscal and oversight problems in the nation’s Medicaid managed-care system.