We just learned more than 9,000 people came to El Reno recently over a three-day period to watch teens lift weights.
That should lift your spirits, especially if you operate a restaurant, run a motel or sell Bengay.
Generally speaking, I’ve always considered myself a “techno-optimist,” sometimes perhaps to the point of Panglossianism.
As a teen, I embraced those new-fangled “microcomputers,” and as a 20-something the World Wide Web, with enthusiasm.
To the Editor:
I am so excited to see the Redlands women’s basketball team having a successful and winning season.
In 1974, Ken Posey asked me if I would help start a women’s basketball team at the then El Reno Junior College. I love kids and sports so of course I said yes.
He wanted me to play and be his assistant coach.
Coach Posey contacted some of the girls that were attending classes at the college that played basketball before and signed them up.
Last November, New York City voters chose -- from a uniformly awful candidate menu -- “Democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani for mayor.
They’re already starting to experience, and may even learn from, the consequences of that choice.
“Democracy,” HL Mencken wrote, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
To the Editor:
The year 2025 was a hard year for our family.
The spring brought a cancer diagnosis and the winter brought heart problems.
And our El Reno friends and neighbors came to the rescue. Whatever we needed.
At Christmas, we decided to celebrate the end of 2025, so our kids arranged to have our whole bunch go to Freeman’s in El Reno to celebrate and see the grand old Thompson Book Store. It is beautiful. And the food is wonderful.
I am often asked a simple question: Why do you do it? Why choose a career in higher education administration, and why take on the responsibility of serving as a college president?
After only two weeks on the job, The Hill reports, Kevin Couch resigned in late January as head of artistic programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Couch’s brief tenure might seem surprising, but a better question is why Couch sought or accepted the position in the first place.
At an Oval Office event on Nov. 18, U.S. President Donald Trump let loose on an ABC News reporter, Mary Bruce, for daring to question Saudi terror kingpin Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 murder -- by Saudi agents, likely on MBS’s direct order -- of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Pro-abortion political operatives have seized upon a new gimmick to try to elect more pro-abortion candidates to public office in Oklahoma.
