To the Editor:
Power of 100 Canadian County is a nonprofit philanthropic organization of compassionate and joyful women committed to helping other nonprofits and charities in our county.
The organization meets four times yearly to celebrate ways we can support each other and give back to our county.
During each meeting, we honor a nominated charity nonprofit with a gift of at least $10,000.
How much you accomplish in life is influenced by what you expect to accomplish. Those with low expectations have a low threshold for what they will be satisfied with. For them, mediocrity or less, is good enough.
The NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) valuation of Cooper Flagg, a freshman Duke basketball player, is $4.8 million. How is that even possible? In essence, Duke was able to buy the hired gun, Flagg, one of the most highly decorated high school players in the country.
Persistence is the foundation of success. Although there are many ways to describe success, there is only one definition of failure – giving up.
Whatever your meaning of success, you will only achieve it through persistence.
A group called Oklahomans United wants to set fire to our state’s primary-election system and replace it with the California model, which places all candidates from all parties on a single ballot — with all voters casting ballots to winnow the field down to two candidates for the November election.
To the Editor:
With all that’s going on in Washington, D.C. right now, it’s easy to forget how historic the November election was for Oklahomans. For the first time since the judicial system was reformed — or better stated, deformed — in the 1960s, Oklahomans voted not to retain a sitting Oklahoma Supreme Court justice.
“How can this be called a ‘continuing resolution,’” Elon Musk asked concerning Congress’ next-to-last stopgap government funding bill, “if it includes a 40 percent pay increase for Congress?”
The real number was 3.8 percent, but Musk’s little white lie played a part in tanking that bill and getting another one, with no raise, passed and signed.
Oklahomans are not satisfied with the state’s K-12 education system.
Oklahoma’s students currently rank near the bottom in the U.S. on many key measures of academic performance. Because Oklahoma’s students deserve a better education, the Oklahoma Education Impact Initiative (OKEII) was formed.
Despite being a conservative electorate, Oklahomans still face more state regulations than citizens in most other states. The accumulation of those rules impedes economic growth and job creation. Fortunately, legislative leaders are preparing to tackle this problem.