A number of times in the past, our focus in this column has been to encourage local residents to come together and focus some time and energy on carving out at least a rough draft of a future master plan for Hugo and all of Choctaw County.

Members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation spoke out in opposition to President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, both before and after its passage last week.

In June 2016, Oklahoma voters approved State Question #788 by a 57%-43% margin. It legalized the licensing, cultivation, use and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Since the passage, the legislature has been dealing with the far-reaching effects of legal pot in the Sooner state.

Religion. Being good enough for God to accept us. Many do turn to religion… trying to always behave and say the perfect things. So that hopefully, their holy God will be obliged to help them handle the fears and horrible problems in life.

Tens of thousands of Americans (if not millions) are being affected by the vaccine mandate of President Joe Biden. As a candidate for president, he pledged to follow the “science.” But as we all know, science (and military generals) have political influences.

Democrats are attempting the largest government overreach of our lifetimes. Included in their proposed $3.5 trillion tax and spend spree is a disturbing provision that authorizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to surveil Americans’ bank accounts — a blatant invasion of personal privacy.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Beginning today, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce (Commerce) will house the Oklahoma Chief International Protocol Office.

We know it to be true, yet we continue to support it. It continues to threaten the “liberty and justice for all” that our founding fathers yearned for.

The DailyMail is reporting that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced that he will pay unvaccinated police officers from other states $5,000 if they relocate to the Sunshine State to work, as cops across the U.S. continue to leave their posts in droves over COVID vaccine mandates.

We have a good-looking weather pattern setting up for southeast Oklahoma Thursday through Sunday with sunshine and high temperatures ranging from the upper-60s to low-70s. It will get chilly at night, dropping into the mid-40s. We have a chance that temperatures will drop to near 40 degrees by...