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Editorial: Primary endorsements

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U.S. First District House:  The Tulsa Beacon endorses: Kevin Hern in the Republican primary. No endorsement in the Democrat primary. Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat (replacing Bob Anthony): Three Republicans are running, Brian Bingman, Justin Hornback and Russell Ray.  Bob Anthony is supporting Russell Ray.  Bob Anthony has been the people’s voice on the Corporation Commission…

Editorial: Primary endorsements

Tulsa Beacon

U.S. First District House:  The Tulsa Beacon endorses: Kevin Hern in the Republican primary. No endorsement in the Democrat primary. Oklahoma Corporation Commission seat (replacing Bob Anthony): Three Republicans are running, Brian Bingman, Justin Hornback and Russell Ray. The Tulsa Beacon is endorsing Justin Hornback. Bob Anthony is supporting Russell Ray. OK Senate 11:  Democrats…

Editorial: Do NOT sign the Minimum Wage Petition – SQ832

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There is a state wide Petition to put a Constitutional Amendment to raise Minimum Wage on the ballot.  The people asking you to sign this say it just puts it before the people for them to decide.  What they are not telling you is what you would actually be voting on. First it would be…

Editorial: Obscure election dates undermine parents’ voice

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In 2020, parents urged the school board at Deer Creek to provide full-time, in-person instruction to students. But the board opted to continue with COVID distance learning for many students. Yet recent reports show officials at Deer Creek schools also allowed charity fundraisers to include events where students lick peanut butter off people’s feet. Former…

Editorial: Another dubious Supreme Court ruling

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Can Oklahoma’s economy continue to grow and its people thrive if businesses lack certainty in our legal system? Unfortunately, we may find out. Members of the Oklahoma Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that contradicted one of the court’s prior rulings, but refused to provide a written opinion explaining if they are overturning their prior…

Editorial: Time to act on college tuition

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The story of Oklahoma college tuition usually falls into one of three patterns. Lawmakers cut college appropriations and colleges raise tuition, blaming the lack of appropriations. Or lawmakers provide steady appropriations, and colleges raise tuition, blaming the lack of increased appropriations. Or lawmakers increase appropriations, and colleges still raise tuition, blaming lawmakers for not doing…

Editorial: Dobbs Anniversary Social Conservatives united on Abortion

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In the only straw poll for and by social conservatives exclusively, of 13,928 social conservatives who have taken the poll to-date, 92% of them confirm that abortion should never be legal or should only be allowed up to 6 weeks, with 66% of that group making no exceptions or making an exception only for the…

Editorial: Family focus is desperately needed

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U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has declared war on a “loneliness epidemic.” Murthy noted “about one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cut off so many of us from friends, loved ones, and support systems.” According to the CDC, 25.5 percent of adults ages 18-24 reported having…

Editorial: OCPA condemns OU tuition hike

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OKLAHOMA CITY (June 19, 2023)—Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small said the recent tuition hike approved by OU is unjustified and shows the university is not serious about its mission of providing a quality, affordable education to Oklahomans. “It is absurd that OU has chosen to hike tuition in a year when more…