For the last 22 years, Sept. 11 has become a somber day to memorialize the thousands of victims killed that day in 2001 by the homicidal bombers of Osama Bin Laden. The total dead numbered nearly 3,000.
Voters have an incredible opportunity on Sept. 12 to make a lasting and positive impact on our future in surrounding communities.
The Canadian Valley Technology Center bond will be on the ballot, and the outcome of this election will determine our tech center’s ability to serve more high school and adult students as well as meet the growing needs of our business community.
Our government should not be in the business of censoring or manipulating content on social media platforms. However, under the Biden administration, such actions occur far too frequently.
More specifically, Facebook and Twitter, before the takeover by Elon Musk, bowed down to pressure from the White House and changed algorithms and narratives to fit this administration’s agenda.
Fire service has many layers of training/education, which includes thousands of hours throughout one’s career.
First starting with the basics: Firefighter 1 consists of Hose Line Drills, Forcible Entry, Ventilation, Rescue, Extrication and more.
An IFSAC certification will take approximately 1,000 training hours. On top of that, you start getting into Technical Rescues, Swift Water Rescues, Trench, High Angle and Ropes.
As you move up in your career as a driver/operator, you will train in Pump Operations, Hydraulic Calculations and some professional development.
With Hollywood teetering on bankruptcy, a consistent catalogue of deplorable films, and the continuation of toxic story-lines, when will the film industry realize the need for clean, family-focused content — their largest attending audience. The overaggressive violence, an emphasis on the supernatural and the repugnant push of agendas shows how disconnected Hollywood is from reality and what the public really wants. The current writers and actors strike is a clear indication of a system ready to collapse.
The 20th anniversary of Bob Hope’s death on July 27 closed the “Season of Hope” that began with Hope’s 120th birthday on May 29.
It will not be observed outside of this column, whose author uses Pepsodent toothpaste because it sponsored Hope’s radio show. Nevertheless, Hope’s influence on America remains.
I am not referring to his unparalleled career at the apex of vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio and television. I am not referring to stand-up comedy, which Hope concocted by synthesizing Frank Fay’s presentation and Will Rogers’ populism.
The latest abysmally low birth rates from North America, Europe and Asia continue to alarm business leaders and policy-makers, as well they should.
The NBA Summer League recently concluded, and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s rebuild was front-and-center with a plethora of young talent on the roster.
This talent has many pundits praising the direction of the team and how the Thunder rebuild has been handled.
It also provides our state’s political leaders with an example they could follow.
The surge of inflation under President Joe Biden has given many people flashbacks to the 1970s. Sadly, the latest data released by the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) evokes a similar sense of déjà vu.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) administered the NAEP long-term trend reading and math assessments to 13-year-old students from October to December of the 2022–23 school year.
The results provide much reason for alarm.
Everyone in Oklahoma is keenly aware that food security is national security. A nation that cannot feed itself cannot hope to defend itself.
Because of this, it is essential we protect our farmland, especially from foreign adversaries. For far too long we’ve seen entities - Chinese in particular - coming over and buying our agricultural land. That’s why I’ve led on several fronts to address this troubling issue.
