Kingfisher Oklahoma

Let’s keep those cash registersjingling, ring-ting-tingling too... I realize many of our readers are too young to recognize either the song reference or remember when cash registers actually did jingle after every transaction.

Oklahoma and the nation lost a great citizen last week, H. Jerrell Chesney of Shawnee. Chesney, 88, was a leader in every facet of his life. He was a straight arrow, an example for anyone who desires to become a good - or great - citizen.

This year’s presidential campaigns are causing many people to have “aha” moments that defy partisan stereotypes. Democratic candidate Joe Biden says he will repeal the tax cuts enacted under President Trump and add many new taxes.

I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River.

Hell froze over the week before the ice storm. That’s when a friend, and brother-from-another mother, called to say Governor Stitt turned him into a Democrat.

He didn’t hang up on me. Instead, the man I’d always considered to be to the right of Atilla the Hun admitted he’d voted for a Democrat in his younger years. Party politics are different as night and day compared to olden days in Oklahoma. I got my first taste of politics in the late 1950s.

Students from across Oklahoma wheat country recently attended the 2020 Oklahoma 4-H/FFA Junior Wheat Show competition banquet at the Embassy Suites in Oklahoma City.

The local American Legion is canceling its annual Veterans Day breakfast. The breakfast was originally scheduled Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Officers of the local FFA chapters participated Sept. 29 in the 2020 Oklahoma FFA Chapter Officer Leadership Training (COLT) Conference at the Stride Bank Center in Enid. The eight state FFA officers planned and conducted this year’s conference based on the theme, “Reduce, Renew, Resolve.

ED NOTE: is a senior writer and producer at The Daily Signal and a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Forum.] If the last four years taught us anything, it’s that Americans love politics but they hate politicians.