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Every summer, I give a detailed update of roads and bridges projects in our House district broken down by county. This column focuses on those in Woodward County.
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I hope everyone had a fantastic independence day, seems like if came off well. The celebration overrode the turmoil. The terrorism seems to have slowed down somewhat; we still need to be alert!
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Mandatory voting by mail would undermine election security and endanger Americans’ right to have their votes counted, according to a report released Tuesday by the Honest Elections Project, a voter integrity group.
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Thank you Father, mother, the Great I Am for this day, our daily bread.
Read moreIf anyone is looking for an example of how presidential elections might look if we lose the Electoral College check out the S.Q. 802 results.
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The sixties seem like they were just yesterday.
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Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on New York State Education Department’s annual English Language Arts test and its Mathematics Test. Sowell gives the results of student tests in charter schools such as KIPP, Success Academy, Explore Schools, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First as well as the traditional New York City public schools. On the English Language Arts test, a majority of charter school students, most of whom were black or Hispanic, tested proficient or above. Their achievement ratio was nearly 5 to 1. On the Mathematics test 68% of charter schools’ 161 grade levels had a majority of students testing proficient. In the traditional public schools, 177 grade levels, just 10% had a majority of their student testing proficient.
Read moreThe FBI last month conducted 3,931,607 firearms background checks, the highest-ever number for the month of June.
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