To the Editor:
On May 1, workers from OG&E showed up at a duplex I own and told my renters they would be turning their electricity off so they could top trees in the neighbor’s yard. This was at 8 p.m. and no notice was given.
The trees were in the yards of two neighbors that join my property in the backyard.
The limbs were dragged through my backyard and piled 6 feet high on both sides of my driveway in the front lawn.
For years, teachers unions and even officials at state colleges of education have resisted efforts to improve reading instruction in Oklahoma public schools. That’s why this year’s passage of legislation focused on reading instruction is such a significant victory.
Editor’s Note: The city council unanimously adopted the budget for the upcoming fiscal year at its Tuesday night meeting.
Everyone is conditioned to worry. Our conditioning begins as soon as we learn to speak. Since we see everyone around us worrying, we emulate their behavior.
There are no limits to what you worry about. You worry about the past. You worry about the present. You worry about the future.
I’m a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. I am a mother of five children (ages 11-32), four grandchildren (ages 7-10), and I am married to Shawn Hill, who is a citizen of the Kiowa Tribe.
I turned 54 years old and I just celebrated 33 years of sobriety.
Currently, I work for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Tradition Not Addiction (TNA) Prevention Program as an outreach specialist. The mission of the TNA program is to raise awareness of substance abuse and to reduce both underage drinking and non-medical use of prescription drugs within our service area.
To the Editor:
The Mobile Meals program is just one of many services provided in El Reno to those in need. The program is dependent on volunteers. I have been delivering meals for more than 20 years and find it to be a highlight of my week.
If you can spare one hour a week to volunteer, you won’t regret it.
Tom Mathews
If Lauren Handy was an environmental activist or a leftist supporting Hamas, her sit-in at an abortion business would have earned her a misdemeanor charge and maybe a small fine. But because she is a pro-life advocate protesting abortion, the Biden administration used the FACE Act to prosecute her for supposedly blocking access to abortion.
We spend our middle adult years protecting our children. Indeed, parenting represents the most expensive and difficult responsibility of our lives.
We baby-proof our houses. We warn them about the dangers of living in the 21st century. We educate them to be productive members of society. We seek to protect them from the dangers of drug abuse.
We invest our retirement dollars so that we do not become burdens on them.
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” - Henry Ford
The rightful ownership of Fort Reno has been debated for more than 100 years. But judging from the points laid out in 1999 by the United States Department of the Interior Office of the Solicitor, as well as in 2009 when a federal Court of Appeals did not reach an alternative conclusion, it appears as though the federal government has fought to keep the land from the C&A for one reason, oil.
Scott Peterson’s latest attempt to have his conviction for the 2002 double murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Conner, overturned have put those heinous crimes back in the headlines. And heinous they were. So heinous in fact, that they shocked Congress into a rare exercise of common sense.
