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Editorial: Vote for Assessor John A. Wright

Tulsa Beacon

Fairness and competency are hallmarks of good public servant and Tulsa County Assessor John A. Wright gets high marks on both counts. As inflation drastically affects Tulsa County’s housing market, Wright and his staff have done an excellent job of determining market value of property and assigning the assessed valuation, which is the basis of…

Editorial: More Biden gas increases coming

Tulsa Beacon

Gasoline prices, which have dipped slightly, are expected to soar again soon, according to energy experts. The national average is projected to rise to $4.20 a gallon and perhaps higher. In the middle of April, the national average price topped $4. That happened even though Georgia, Maryland and Connecticut suspended state gasoline taxes in a…

Editorial: Ethanol is not the energy answer

Tulsa Beacon

Joe Biden keeps making choices that make America’s energy crisis worse instead of better. The latest intentional mistake is to allow the amount of ethanol in gasoline to rise to 15% this summer. Biden claims this will save the average American motorist 10 cents a gallon and that will solve the problem. It won’t. First,…

Editorial: A war that nobody will win

Tulsa Beacon

During World War II, Americans could only view the horrors of the war on news reels in local movie theaters. During the Vietnam War, the evening newscasts brought limited views of the conflict accompanied by U.S. casualties. During the War in Iraq, the world saw live footage of the American military in action. Now Americans…

Editorial: Illegal immigration getting worse

Tulsa Beacon

Joe Biden’s open border policy that ignores federal immigration laws is about to make things even worse. In May, Biden plans to rescind Title 42 – a Trump-era policy that quickly expels illegal aliens due to the Chinese coronavirus. Under Biden’s regime, about 7,000 illegals were coming across our southern border each day. With the…

Letter: Stitt and O’Conner are great examples for today’s kids

Tulsa Beacon

Attorney General John O’Connor and his relationship with Governor Kevin Stitt is quietly teaching lessons to Oklahoma’s kids. As the state’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Law Enforcement Officer, their decisions don’t always align. And when they don’t, they hold respectful talks, showcasing life-sized examples of proper discourse when opposing views collide. Past generations learned…

Letter: Obscene books in Bixby

Tulsa Beacon

Last year, Janice Danforth, faced opposition when she addressed her concerns about two books, she found in the Bixby public school library. The books, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Thirteen Reasons Why contain explicit sexual content. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl contained over 200 uses of the “F” word and…

Letter: Seat belt safety tip

Tulsa Beacon

I want to share a simple but life-saving discovery. It is a seat belt tip. The next time you drive your car, do this. Fasten your seat belt and then take hold of the strap across your chest and pull it forward until it stops and let it go back to its place. Now try…

Editorial: Stitt signs Save Women’s Sports

Tulsa Beacon

A sportswriter at a liberal local newspaper lamented the fact that Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the Save Women’s Sports bill that prevent biological males who masquerade as females from competing in women’s sports. He couldn’t make a rational argument over the patent unfairness of men competing against girls so he tried to rationalize that this…

Editorial: Disney pushes transgenderism

Tulsa Beacon

The strategy by the Walt Disney Company to totally embrace the homosexual lifestyle and to oppose a Florida law that prohibits teachers from talking about sex to students from kindergarten to the third grade could have an economic impact on the giant entertainment company. And even Disney employees think so. Most Floridians – and most…