The Oklahoma Media Center recently selected the name “Promised Land: A Supreme Court Decision Places Oklahoma at a Crossroads” for a shared topic in 2021.

The collaborative will cover the affirmation of tribal sovereignty after the Supreme Court ruling last year.

When a deep freeze settled across Oklahoma in mid-February, the greenhouse sheltering Oklahoma State University’s wheat breeding program showed its age in the worst way. 

Constructed in the 1960s, the facility’s heating system failed, pipes froze, and 70 percent of the hybrid plants inside succumbed to crippling cold. The loss was catastrophic and exemplified a need to reinvest in the crumbling infrastructure of agricultural research. 

As Oklahoma’s political leaders continue to search for ways to fire up economic growth, now is the time to address many of the problems they have been avoiding for years.

In order to make people prosperous, you have to understand the nature of both your economy and the larger society in which it is embedded.

While it has taken most of us several decades to catch up to his thinking, it is safe to say that most observers agree that Peter Drucker was right that our society and economy are founded on knowledge.

Playing perennial powerhouse Carl Albert close for seven innings seemed to awaken the sleeping giant as the Titans swept last week’s District 5A-2 doubleheader against El Reno High School’s baseball team at the Hub Reed Complex.

Carl Albert, the district leader, took the opening game of the set by a 6-0 tally, before blanking the Indians 16-0 in game two. The setbacks extended El Reno’s current losing streak to six games.

El Reno is now 12-15 on the season and 8-4 in the district standings, falling to fourth behind Carl Albert, Piedmont and Guthrie.