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  • Audits should be done by county, not state

    We find the current auditing system in Oklahoma to be less than effective. It puts unneeded pressure on county treasurers while creating a nervous atmosphere among county offices during audit time.

    February 25, 2013

  • IMG_6949.JPG State should combine election dates

    Elections are a precious thing, and we find the treatment of school board elections by the state of Oklahoma to be deplorable.

    February 24, 2013 1 Photo

  • Dorman looks back on first week of new session

    The first week is in the book for the First Session of the Fifty-Fourth Oklahoma Legislature and it was a fairly quiet week.  There was a discussion on the House Rules, which were adopted by a majority of the members with all the Democrats and some of the Republicans dissenting on the vote.

    February 14, 2013

  • British courts to decide U.S. drones do murder?

    With the Obama administration insistently refusing to release its legal, constitutional authorizations for drone assassinations in Pakistan and other countries, a lawsuit in Britain is causing mounting anxiety among intelligence agents there and in other countries who have aided the CIA.

    February 13, 2013

  • Fallin's address well-intended, unrealistic

    Governor Fallin’s State of the State address was on Monday.  She outlined many lofty goals, but I just do not see how the numbers can add up for everything the governor wants to do, even as well-intentioned as she might be.

    February 7, 2013

  • GOP ploy to change electoral college bound to backfire

    "We must stop being the stupid party," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal warned fellow Republicans recently. "It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults."
    Many Republicans apparently weren't listening, because they insist on doing stupid things. Exhibit A: lawmakers in a half-dozen states who are trying to alter the Electoral College system to give Republicans more votes.

    February 4, 2013

  • kids-on-cell-phones.jpg Teaching our schoolkids to be suspects

    Having reported on small but growing numbers of public school students who are eagerly learning to be actively knowledgeable citizens, I must now turn to a much larger, growing problem within public education. As we adults are continually losing our privacy rights to insatiable government technology, so, too, are students throughout this nation.

    January 31, 2013 1 Photo

  • Editorial: Leaderless organizations could kill what makes Chickasha so appealing

    Over the last few weeks we have seen what we hope does not become an alarming trend in the administration of local organizations and events.

    January 30, 2013

  • New sheriff says his administration is off to fast start

    We have been very busy here at the Sheriff’s Office, since being sworn in on Jan. 2, we hit the ground running! I am very proud of our Deputies and what they’ve accomplished so far.
    We are here for our citizens and want you to feel welcome at the Grady County Sheriff’s Office.

    January 28, 2013

  • Lighting important to future of rural towns

    By the third verse of the book of Genesis, God, in his infinite power, had taken care of light over the face of the entire earth.  In Western Oklahoma, electrical illumination took a little longer.

    January 27, 2013