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Gov. Stitt signs bills dealing with gambling and alcohol

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Bills regarding gambling, guns and alcohol were signed into law in April as part of the 2021 Oklahoma Legislative Session. Gov. Kevin Stitt signed HB1684, which gives law enforcement more discretion when determining if arrests are warranted for gambling violations. Sen. Bill Coleman, R-Ponca City, was the Senate author of the legislation. “With passage of…

Biden pushes historic increase in the size of government

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In the most unusual “state of the union” address in modern times, President Joe Biden drew Republican criticism as he spoke of plans to raise taxes and grow the federal government. Only about 200 members of the House and Senate attended because Biden’s administration is afraid of infection of the Chinese coronavirus. Biden wants to…

State movie subsidies are a net drain on Oklahoma’s revenues

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Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a dramatic increase in state film subsidies, potentially funneling as much as $50 million a year to filmmakers, and have even proclaimed the subsidy program a “magical” economic-development tool. But a recent independent review of the program, by the state’s Incentive Evaluation Commission, shows the film-subsidy program is a net drain…

Farmers markets are open around Northeastern Oklahoma

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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….