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Farmers markets are open around Northeastern Oklahoma

May 6, 2021

Shape Your Future (SYF), a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), encourages Oklahomans to eat better, move more, drink water and be tobacco free with a variety of free resources available at ShapeYourFutureOK.com. The program encourages farmers markets to register with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry in order to take…

Nigel Farage in Tulsa on May 13th

May 6, 2021

Tulsa 9.12, Project through its partnership with FreedomWorks, is hosting, Nigel Farage, the leader of Brexit, the movement that freed Great Britain from the European Union. The event is at 6:30 p.m. May 13 at The Embassy (formerly Woodlake Assembly of God), 7100 E 31st St. A veteran grassroots campaigner, Farage was first elected to…

Tulsa Parks seeks summer workers

May 6, 2021

Tulsa Parks has openings for lifeguards and day camp counselors for the summer. Tulsa Parks will operate four pools for the summer of 2021: Berry, McClure, Lacy and Whiteside (reopening with new pool). Reed pool is under construction and will not open this season. Day camps will be held at Hicks, Lacy, Reed, Whiteside, Jane…

College of the Ozarks is rated No. 1

May 6, 2021

POINT LOOKOUT, Missouri — College Consensus ranked College of the Ozarks as the No. 1 Best Christian College in the United States. College Consensus is a unique college ranking and review aggregator, combining top publisher rankings and student reviews. The Best Christian Colleges and Universities are listed in descending order according to their College Consensus…

Seniors are suseptible to new scams

May 6, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It may sound dismissive and insulting to say that the older you get the more susceptible you become to fraud, but a study published in the journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, found that “even cognitively intact older adults can have ‘functional’ changes that may render them financially vulnerable,” according to Rebecca Weber,…

Bills deter but don’t abolish abortion

April 29, 2021

Gov. Kevin Stitt signed three bills to restrict abortion in Oklahoma but nothing that would abolish the killing of unborn babies in Oklahoma. The Senate passed House Bill 1904 by Sen. Jessica Garvin, R-Duncan, which would allow abortions to continue but only by certified obstetricians and gynecologists. “Under current law, any licensed physician can perform…

Save Women’s Sports

April 29, 2021

The “Save Women’s Sports Act” was approved by the Oklahoma House. Rep. Toni Hasenbeck, R-Elgin, is the House author of the measure which would require certain athletic teams to be designated based on an athletes’ biological sex. “However, the bodies of biological men have a competitive advantage over the bodies of biological women,” said Hasenbeck….

Ban on paper straws

April 29, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – In honor of Earth Day, Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, filed Senate Bill 1065 to ban paper straws in the state. “You have states, like California, where the leftist loons have banned plastic straws because they saw a video on social media about a sea turtle that was harmed by ingesting a…

Stop federal overreach

April 29, 2021

A bill establishing an intra-branch legal process to guard against federal overreach in Oklahoma passed the House. House Bill 1237, by House Speaker Charles McCall, R-Atoka, and Rep. Mark McBride, R-Moore, establishes a constitutional process to exercise Oklahoma’s authorities as a state under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by reviewing federal actions for…

Religious freedoms

April 29, 2021

Stitt signed a bill that passed through the Senate to better protect the religious freedoms of Oklahomans. Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, carried the bill in the Senate protecting churches. “During the pandemic, churches were deemed nonessential, and closures were recommended,” Bullard said. “This bill will protect our houses of worship.” House Bill 2648 creates the…