Kingfisher Oklahoma

FOR ONCE, no one cared when yet another student competition switched from in-person to virtual because of pandemic protocols.

Kingfisher area residents have the opportunity to weigh in on SoonerSelect, Oklahoma Health Care Authority’s new managed care program, at a town hall meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds. Pre-registration is required and can be done online at https://oklahoma.

Emotion overcame a longtime Hennessey town board member as he was honored for his years of service. “I didn’t think this was going to affect me this way,” said Wes Hardin last Thursday night when he was visibly overcome after he received a plaque from the town board.

The big national TV networks continue their campaign to become absolutely unbelievable. The latest incident involves CBS’s 60 minutes, which published a hit piece against Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, a Republican they fear will be the 2024 candidate for president.

Talks about the olden days with my then-forty-something son turned into an argument one night when he said, “All the kids in high school thought you were the cool parents.” “No they didn’t!” “Yes they did!” “But we weren’t cool parents,” I said as if I’d been accused of beating him.

In the free market, those who provide the best products or services are usually rewarded with greater pay or profit. But in government, the opposite often occurs. Those who want Oklahoma’s educational outcomes to improve must change that dynamic.

Democrats, teacher union officials and allied groups have staunchly opposed even minor education reforms this year, arguing that instead of addressing structural flaws or increasing parent options that lawmakers should instead “fully fund” traditional public schools.

The mainstream media is slowly catching on to the “Open Borders, Inc.” racket. Just this week, NBC News reported that smugglers are using Facebook to advertise their services in violation of Facebook’s policy ban on human exploitation and trafficking.

Attorneys have threatened to file lawsuits against the firms selected by the Arizona state Senate to conduct a comprehensive audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results.

Team Biden is holding seven times more migrant children at the U.S. southern border than the Trump administration did, according to data from the federal government.