Community Is What We Make It

From The Editor A couple of months ago a small group of people got together to plan out a friendly litle barbecue competition in Cordell. The bragging-rights contest quickly grew from three to nine competitors and turned into a community event in the park.

We Need To Save Our Hospital

Letter To The Editor The Cordell Memorial Hospital is at distinct crossroads in the ultimate survival of health care delivery as we know it in Cordell and the surrounding areas of Washita County.

Is Shameless Hate Truly Our National Identity?

Trump rally participants chanted about Ilhan Omar: “Send her back! Send her back!” They are shameless so I feel shame for them. Antifa bullies punched Andy Ngo, a conservative journalist in my town, Portland, Oregon. They are shameless so I feel shame for them.

Power, Not Policy, Drives American Politics

Claiming to speak for “we the people,” the framers of the US Constitution offered it as a tool to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our...

Congress Loves Socialized Health Care - For Itself

For $3.5 trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class health care system? Yet while we spend the most of any advanced nation in the world to get care — more than $10,000 a year per person — we get the worst results.

Can I Drink My Beer There? Deciphering Oklahoma’s Alcohol Rules

Since the recent legislative session, a variety of adjustments and new alcohol laws have been approved that changed or will soon change how businesses can sell beer, what approvals they need for events, as well as, where consumers can purchase and enjoy their beer.

Two Killed In Kiowa County Crash

Two area residents were killed Monday, July 22, 2019, in an accident involving a passenger vehicle and a commercial rig on US Highway 183 north of Roosevelt in Kiowa County. At approximately 6:30 a.m.

It Is Time For Congress To Ratify The USMCA

Earlier this summer, President Trump gave his 30-day notice, required by law, that he intends to submit the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade deal to Congress for ratification.

Did Epstein ‘Belong To Intelligence?’

In 2008, billionaire asset manager Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers negotiated a very favorable plea bargain in Florida, under which he served a mere 13 months in jail — in his own private wing, with 12 hours of daily “work release” — on a single charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor (the FBI had...

Florida’s New Poll Tax Will Cost The State Voters And Dollars

The poll tax Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law may cost his state $365 million a year — indefinitely.