Monica Granstaff and her family waited 12 years to get high-speed internet access to their farm near Okemah. In early September, the Oklahoma Broadband Office joined her family to witness their first fiber connection.
(A column of opinion by Gary Reid, Publisher Emeritus)Kirk murder: A tragedy in every aspectThe assassination of Turning Point USA Founder and Chief Executive Charlie Kirk, 31, was tragic in every aspect.
Chloe Blair of Kingfisher has been named by the Oklahoma State University Mortar Board as a Top 10 Freshman Woman for the class of 2024-25.Blair learned of the honor Monday evening.Students are selected based on the criteria of scholarship, outstanding leadership and community service.
Seven companies submitted bids for the much-awaited construction of the Kingfisher Fire Department to be built on the east side of Highway 81, on the 1500 block of South Main Street.
The text message was concerning, but not yet unsettling.That certainly would happen later.Riley Dacus got the text in a family group message.It was Monday evening, Sept.
Calliope music from the merry-go-round, screams of fear and fun from the ferris wheel, and the barkers from the side shows, and games. Then there is the food: that’s where my mind goes now that it’s State Fair time.
Israel’s precise strike at Hamas headquarters in the petrostate sheikdom of Qatar happened about 23 months too late.Every one of the reported targets has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for terrorist activities. Each one of them, by any moral or legal understanding, was engaged in war crimes.
Is Mamdani Democrats’ future?Is the success of Zohran Mamdani in seeking the mayorship of New York City as a Democratic Socialist indicative that the old Democrat Party is transforming into a new entity?The actions of Democrat leaders in recent years might well indicate that is so.
By Ray Carter, Director,Independent Journalism CenterOklahoma’s two largest universities—the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University— both fared poorly in a national report on campus free speech yet still landed in the top half of universities in the nation.