Stillwater Medical named to top 100 list

Stillwater Medical has been recognized as a 2021 Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital. Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, this 11th annual recognition program honors outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX®.

Lucas Remembers Oklahoma City Bombing

Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) released the following statement on the 26th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

CASA for Kids names new Executive Director

The Board of Directors for CASA for Kids, Inc., a nonprofit organization that serves abused and neglected children of Payne and Logan Counties, has named Angela Parsons as the non-profit’s new Executive Director.

Mostly Educational - Hitting the school bubbly

Third-graders wiggle. They fidget. They giggle and laugh for no apparent reason. Honestly, they are a little goofy. This time of year, however, they hit the bubbly for the first time, as they take their first standardized tests, and they seem to lose a bit of their own bubbliness.

ENERGY WATCH

From Ernie Barsamian - The Tank Tiger The direction in oil prices is starting to look a lot like a squirrel crossing the street. For the week, WTI saw a weekly gain of 6.4%, the best weekly return in over a month, closing Friday at $63.19.

Let’s protect criminal justice reform that works

Over the past few years, Oklahoma has made progress on smart criminal justice reform. But Oklahoma still has one of the highest imprisonment rates in the nation, and has had one of the highest female imprisonment rates in the country for nearly three decades.