VIEW from behind the plow

The residents along Wildwood Drive, east of Kingfisher, owe John Phillips a word of thanks for repairing the road where it meets EW 810 Road.

The roadway had become deeply pitted – reaching the point of almost becoming unusable – before John picked up a load of asphalt at Guthrie and used it to fi ll the chugholes and then smooth out the entire area with additional asphalt.

We’ll bet everybody wishes they had a neighbor like John.

Phone call appreciated

Thanks to Evelyn Skarky of Yukon for her recent telephone call during which she renewed subscriptions and complimented the Times and Free Press on its news coverage. We believe she said she first started taking the newspaper here in 1963. Our arithmetic says that’s 56 years. How we appreciate our faithful subscribers. They are the reason – along with faithful advertisers – that the Times and Free Press can continue to bring you a newspaper twice a week. It is a joy to live and work in this county – our piece of heaven on earth.

Letters liked, too

We appreciated the letter recently from Bud Reid of Cashion (no relation but we’d be proud to call him brother) recently who commented on his appreciation for editorial columns in the Times and Free Press. Our own personal favorite column is written by Walter E. Williams, economics professor at George Mason University in Virginia. Each time we read his weekly column we learn something new and are reminded of Bill Stolz’s comment about Williams: “It’s nice to know that some people can earn a doctorate and keep their common sense.”

Amen and amen.

Why we cut short column on IG report

In the Wednesday edition, we started an article on Page 5 which we intended to “jump “ to another page.

Other late-breaking items came in, including the deaths of two more of our outstanding local citizens, Tommy Sandefur and Flo Hellwege, that we had to make room for.

Here’s IG’s report on Trump headquarters spying

So at this point we’re going to return to the report, which indicates, to us, that our federal government’s vital law enforcement services, have lost most, if not all, their credibility.

The findings seem to indicate that there are two justice systems in the U.S. – one for the connected (especially those in the deep state left) and the other for the rest of us.

Just as a point of information, we might mention that Michael Horowitz, the justice department’s Inspector general, who issued the report, is a Democrat appointee of former President Obama.

His report seems to slide over some very important matters, such as the texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – FBI department members and allegedly illicit lovers – who reveal their political bias in comments such as the one about an “insurance policy” apparetly against Trump’s election and “there is no blanking (his real word deleted) way he (Trump) gets elected” are mentioned.

To provide continuity, we are printing the review of the report from the beginning, taking up most of the space on this page to do it.