Opinion

Letter: Spend on more classrooms, not stadiums

February 6, 2020 Bruce C Brewer

First, we are told two elementary schools face closure due to a $20 million budget shortfall. Then, we read Union schools are building a $42 million stadium. Is this not trading classrooms for an athletic field? All children need to have a classroom in which to learn – only a few students are directly involved…

Letter: An American revival

February 6, 2020 Catherine White

Recently a letter to the editor was written by a citizen who is also a clergyman. It appeared in our local newspaper (Muskogee) expressing his appreciation for the man who is presently our president. The letter was gracious and bold in stating such appreciation for Mr. Trump and his leadership. There are those who would…

Editorial: Sen. Dahm tackles tough issues

January 30, 2020

State Sen. Nathan Dahm is ready to tackle some key issues when the Oklahoma Legislature reconvenes in February. Dahm, a conservative Republican from Broken Arrow, for several years had his conservative bills pass the House and Senate only to be vetoed by ex-Gov. Mary Fallin – an establishment Republican who did the bidding of the…

Editorial: Joe Biden bullies the news media

January 30, 2020

Joe Biden wants to hide the truth by intimidating and manipulating the news media. On January 20, a day before the impeachment trial began in the U.S. Senate, Kate Bedingfield, deputy campaign manager and communications director for the Bide for president campaign, issued a warning to the news media. That warning was: conform your coverage…

Editorial: Promenade to lose J.C.Penney

January 30, 2020

Tulsa is losing another major retailer. The bad news is that J.C.Penney is closing its store in the Tulsa Promenade mall this spring. The good news is that the J.C. Penney store in Woodland Hills Mall will stay open. For now. Tulsa, like the rest of the country, is seeing the major decline of retailers…

Letter: Fire the Tulsa administrators

January 30, 2020 Bruce C Brewer

Instead of closing schools and keeping with the “children first” philosophy, let’s close the TPS administrative offices and fire the superintendent. Leave only the principal and their staff at each school, this will reduce wasted overhead by the millions. We don’t need curriculum specialists and their ilk. All the talk about education, and here “educators”…

Editorial: Obama’s homosexual policies

January 23, 2020

Former President Obama lied and said he was opposed to the Homosexual Agenda when he first ran in 2008. After winning re-election in 2012, he officially reversed that position and began to promote homosexual marriage. Obama couldn’t get Congress to pass his homosexual agenda, so he tried to force acceptance through executive orders. He ordered…

Editorial: Buttigieg blames Trump, not Iran

January 23, 2020

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is married to another man, is drawing massive criticism for suggesting that American (and implicitly President Trump) is responsible for a civilian airliner shot down by mistake by the Iranian military. The Ukrainian passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s airport on January 9 after being hit…

Editorial: Trump’s economy setting records

January 23, 2020

Actions speak louder than words. When America elected businessman Donald Trump as president in 2016, he promised prosperity. That prosperity is here for almost all Americans. Trump’s economy has a lower average unemployment rate than any president at a comparable point in office in recorded history. This month, Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the…

Letter: The United States is in a spiritual battle

January 23, 2020 Duane Collins

The Washington Times reported Iran unfurled a blood-red flag above the dome of Jamarkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran the day after Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed by the U.S. missile strike in Baghdad. Some say this red flag was simply a sign of revenge, but others say it has a deeper meaning. As the flag…