As we approach the joyous holiday season, we find ourselves reflecting on the incredible achievements of our students and the remarkable strides our academic community has made.
It is with great pride and gratitude that we reach out to you, our valued supporters and champions, to share exciting news and extend a heartfelt invitation to make a lasting impact this season.
Three cheers to Gov. Kevin Stitt for walking back a decision to apply for a new private school tax credit program that he championed just months ago.
At the very least, it’s a bad look for a millionaire to apply for a tax credit that GOP lawmakers promised would help poorer families.
It also seems to raise some thorny ethical questions about whether it’s OK to almost immediately reap the rewards from legislation that has financial implications.
“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing,” William Tecumseh Sherman told David F. Boyd in 1860.
“This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war, you don’t know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!”
On Nov. 20, X Corp. - the corporate entity through which Elon Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter - filed suit against Media Matters for America, which styles itself as a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
At issue is a Media Matters expose claiming that X, contrary to CEO Linda Yaccarino’s promise that advertisers are “protected from the risk” of having their ads placed next to unsavory content, has been running ads next to “pro-Nazi” posts.
If you’ve been around El Reno long, you’ve almost certainly heard about El Reno High School's annual Gifts for the Yanks program. You probably already know the following:
► We have been doing this program continuously since 1945.
► Through the program, we raise money to purchase gifts which EHS students wrap and personally give to the veterans at the Oklahoma City VA Hospital.
What exactly is luck? Why do some people appear to be luckier than others?
Is luck a question of chance, fate, or are there things you can do to improve your luck?
Actually, being lucky isn’t just a matter of luck at all.
Luck is a combination of attitude, mental orientation, preparation and opportunity. Typically, lucky people have an approach of possibility, whereas unlucky people have a mindset of impossibility.
Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Based on David Grann’s meticulously researched 2017 book, the movie delves into racial and family dynamics that rocked Oklahoma to the core when oil was discovered on Osage lands.
Oklahoma youth (and their parents) are increasingly asking, “Is a college degree worth the cost?” We’ve all heard horror stories of students who racked up significant college debt only to find they can’t pay off their debt and also live comfortably on the salaries their college degree produces.
To the Editor:
People come into our lives when we need them the most. They come to lift our spirits or to give us hope. It’s not by accident that they come into our lives, they are sent by God, so I guess you could call them a messenger from God or “God’s Mailman.” They come to bring you a message just when you need it.
Sometimes these people don’t even know how much their kind words or acts of kindness really mean to us. How can they, unless we tell them.
To the Editor:
History, historical buildings and architecture are awesome reminders of things past and were intended to be passed from one generation to the next. It comes in many forms.
Sometimes it’s those who came before us and their writings or maybe their actions taken. Sometimes it’s the buildings and architecture that are of a historical nature, which can't be replaced or duplicated once it is destroyed.
