Payne County Becomes Second Amendment Sanctuary

A request from Payne County sheriff Joe Harper to make Payne County a Second Amendment Sanctuary County was approved Thursday April 29, immediately following Gov. Kevin Stitt’s signing of the bill that made Oklahoma a SAS State. District 1 Payne County Commissioner Zach Cavett said.

The Pride in Hard Work

We’re rounding the final corner of this legislative session, with only one more month before session must conclude. Right now, we’re considering amendments the Senate made to our House bills.

The narcissism of anti-maskers

I was in the checkout line at a local discount store last week, standing on my prescribed floor sticker, maintaining six feet of social distance, wearing my mask… well, neck gaiter, and minding my own business, leaning on my shopping cart while the cashier scanned stuff from the cart in front of me.

Senate Review

We’ve concluded the 11th week of session and are just a few days away from the next deadline for action on legislation. April 22 is the last day to vote on bills that started out in the opposite chamber.

Momma didn’t raise no quitter

My momma didn’t raise a quitter. What my momma did raise is a young lady who has no limits and inadvertently makes herself miserable. This weekend I pushed myself to every limit imaginable. I ate hot sauce. Some of the hottest hot sauce in the world.

Senate Review

This is an exciting time at OSU. The nationwide search for someone to follow President Burns Hargis upon his retirement has been thorough and painstaking, and many excellent candidates were considered.

Adventures with Allie Writers Block

Books are hard. English is hard. Writing is hard. Words hate me. Let me give you a little backstory… A few days ago I was watching a documentary about ancient Egypt and I had one of those “what if” scenarios pop into my head.

Jim Crow Voting?

Possibly one of the most important fights of this new century is being waged right now in the halls of Congress, in state houses across the nation, and with lesser significance on social media. The question is about voter accessibility and who has the right to determine it.

Thank you healthcare heroes

There is a group of people in this addled nation of ours… this nation of mixed up, split up, hating-on-social-media, history canceling, anthem kneeling, intolerant people with ideals that come from as far to the right as they do the left.

The U.S. border is in crisis.

Facts don’t lie – the border is in a crisis. Border patrol is completely inundated. Reports indicate that nearly all border patrol sectors are above 100% capacity, with some sectors double, triple or even at signifi cantly higher levels of overcapacity. It doesn’t have to be this way.