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For over a year, Debbie Burpo hadn’t seen her… didn’t know how or where she was, until she stepped into her office that day.
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Occasionally an event will cause a return of old memories, some that might better be forgotten.
Read moreKingfisher County commissioners approved a CIRB agreement for a bridge over Turkey Creek in District 2 at their weekly meeting Tuesday.
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In Sunday’s edition, we published a letter on Page 5 from Jonathan Small, president of the prestigious Oklahoma think tank, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, about the ill treatment he received from a leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
Read moreAn innocent man’s life was knowingly, wholly and intentionally shattered to advance the political goals of a party that had lost an honest election. A nation was thrown into turmoil for years by a collection of elected officials and strategically placed bureaucrats who believed that they had the right to engage in underhanded efforts to reject the will of the people.
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Is it important to have racial or sexual diversity in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Heather Mac Donald suggests that some think it might be in her City Journal article “Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research?” The funding priorities of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control suggests that they think diversity is an important input in making headway in the fight against the coronavirus. On April 20, NIH and CDC announced the availability of grants to increase the “diversity” of biomedical research labs. For example, academic virology researchers studying respiratory failure could receive hundreds of thousands more taxpayer dollars if they could find a woman or a minority to add to their project. High school students and college students are eligible for the program even though they cannot contribute anything of value. No scientific justification for the new diversity hire is needed. The scientists must promise to mentor the new hire, which will take time away from their research with no offsetting gain.
Read more[Ed. Note: Kay C. James is president of The Heritage Foundation. James formerly served as director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as Virginia’s secretary of health and human resources. She is also the founder and president of The Gloucester Institute.]
Read moreThe deadline is quickly approaching to apply for voter registration for the June 30 election.
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