Kingfisher Oklahoma

The U.S. Census Bureau is ramping up hiring ahead of the 2020 Census and selections for the jobs are starting now.The U.S. Census Bureau is also increasing the pay rate across the country for the available positions.There are many positions available to conduct the once-a-decade census.

There’s no place like home for the holidays – especially when it’s a brand new home built and furnished with the love and compassion of an entire community. Hard-working Pete and Connie Scott lived in a ramshackle house in Kingfi sher that has gradually advanced from dilapidated to unlivable.

A holiday getaway may be beyond your means, but the librarians at Kingfisher Memorial Library, Sharon Little, Dyamonique McCarty and Joann Turner, from left, have created a cozy place to escape.

Since the argument still rages whether the new millennium started in 2000 or 2001, it’s not surprising that there’s no clear consensus that midnight, Dec. 31, marks the dawn of a new decade.

VIEW from behind the plow The actions and words of some leading members of the “progressive” layer of the Democratic Party may cause some to think they hate America. We don’t think that is the case.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized for his medical school blackface stunt, but he will have much more to apologize for if he signs into law a bill that attacks Virginia citizens’ Second Amendment rights.

It’s the Pitts I wasn’t always a tightwad. I didn’t always stoop to pick up pennies, straighten bent paper clips or shop in thrift stores.

A new study from a national progressive think tank, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), estimates that “over a four-year period, the lives of 476 older people were lost because Oklahoma did not expand Medicaid to low-income adults.

Cell Phones Monday, Dec 23rd, there was a traffi c accident on Main Street. ... She had slowed down to make her turn, she was rear ended by another vehicle, there were no skid marks, according to the report I heard. I would lay odds the person in the colliding vehicle was on her cell phone.

In a pair of dueling press conferences, Gov. Kevin Stitt offered Oklahoma tribes the opportunity to sign a short-term extension that will prevent potential closure of casinos upon the expiration of state-tribal gaming compacts on Jan. 1, 2020.