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Hennessey’s sewer lagoons are at 50 percent capacity because it has been dry for six months, said Wastewater Superintendent Bryan Burch during the town board’s planning session Feb. 5.
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Tanner Roberts, right, was the guest speaker of the Kingfisher Rotary Club last Tuesday. Roberts is the field representative for U.S. Senator James Lankford and spoke on a variety of subjects, including the on-going crisis regarding illegal aliens crossing the southern border, Internal Revenue Service accountability and federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates. At left is Kingfisher Rotarian Mike Sanders. [KT&FP Staff Photo]
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Two students from Chisholm Trail Technology Center’s automotive service technology program competed Feb. 8 in the District SkillsUSA contest hosted by Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno.
Read moreStudents exploring different career options was the main objective for Kingfisher High School’s recent Career Day.
Read moreKingfisher Bookcase Review Club will meet Monday, Feb. 28, at the Farm Bureau Insurance building, 117 W. Sheridan Ave.
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With our national debt now well over $30 trillion, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tells us that according to a recent poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, over 70% of voting Americans favor a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. The 1990s formula for balancing the budget, spearheaded by Gingrich, was to control government spending, cut regulations, reform welfare so people had incentives to work, and cut taxes in order to increase economic growth and increase revenues as the economy got bigger.
Read more[Anthony B. Kim is a research fellow in economic freedom at The Heritage Foundation, editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, and manager of global engagement for Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.]
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