Opinion

I thought this was interesting:

We’ve all seen the signs: “Help Desperately Wanted!” “Signing Bonus up to $500!” It’s not just burger flippers - there are shortages of nurses, engineers, technicians and on and on.

You would think our institutions of higher education, which receive hundreds of millions of dollars in state appropriations, would be responding by cranking out trained and educated graduates ready to take some of those positions.

Mayor Matt White made one mistake in the zoning fuss that has created some pretty stout tension at two recent city council meetings.

The issue first surfaced in September when the council voted down a request to rezone four acres in the Riverside Addition of town.

A woman was asking to rezone the property from agriculture to residential because she wanted her family to be able to build three or four homes there.

Last month President Biden flew on Air Force One to Scotland to gather with world leaders, give speeches, make promises, and declare that the U.S. should lead the world on climate change.

Here’s what they left out - the U.S. is already leading the world in clean energy. China and India are the largest carbon producers in the world. It’s not even close. China skipped the climate shindig in Scotland (as did Russia), and India told the conference they’ll start dealing with their carbon output in a few decades.

During World War II, on April 9, 1942, 75,000 United States soldiers and Filipino soldiers were surrendered to Japanese forces after months of battling in extreme climate conditions. 

Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese forces began the invasion of the Philippines. The capture of the Philippines was crucial to the Japanese. It would bring them one step closer to the control of the Southwest Pacific.

I found it a bit ironic that Canadian County commissioners are involved in a discussion about the need for a county building inspector for unincorporated areas.

Last week some people told the commissioners the unincorporated areas of the county are experiencing a surge in new home construction.

They suggested there is a strong need for a county inspector to make sure buildings are put up correctly.

Cargo ships waiting to unload at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., could keep some of America’s store shelves bare for a while.

These two ports handle the bulk of cargo coming from China. Cargo keeps coming from China, making the congestion craziness only worse. The dozens of ships floating in the Pacific are carrying products that used to be some of America’s good-paying jobs. 

“Young investors have a new strategy,” National Public Radio’s Tim Mak reported on Sept. 21:

“Watching financial disclosures of sitting members of Congress for stock tips.”

Under the Stock Act, members of Congress must disclose their own stock trades, and those of their spouses, within 45 days.

One member of a TikTok investor community refers to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as the “queen of investing” due to lucrative trades made by her husband.

To the Editor:

On Oct. 7, 1948, a beautiful fall day, my mom, grandmother, our dog, Bootsie, and myself came up over the top of the north overpass from Herington, Kan., in a 1939 Plymouth loaded down and ready for a new life.

I thought El Reno was the most beautiful little town I had ever seen.

The homes were colorful and everything so neat, many of the homes are still there today.

One of the great myths of politics is that the policy stances of medical associations reflect the views of most doctors. But that claim is being dispelled more and more as medical associations continue to take political stances far afield from the mainstream of society.

For example, the American Medical Association (AMA) has debated removing sex from birth certificates, saying there is “no clear standard for defining sex designation” and that designating sex on birth certificates “as male or female suggests that sex is simple and binary.”