Opinion

Letter: Police oversight board is a mess

August 1, 2019 Duane Collins

You are digging yourself a pit that could eventually cave in on you and the City of Tulsa. I am referring specifically to the police oversight board and the search for the alleged “mass graves” resulting from the 1921 Tulsa race riot. The Police Oversight Board The police oversight board will not result in a…

Letter: Why the search for mass graves?

August 1, 2019 Joseph G. Glenn

Perhaps Mayor G.T. Bynum knows little about the work for integration in the 1950s. The goal was to offer equal rights. You know, “separate but equal” didn’t work too well. To me, it is puzzling – or are there other motives at work here? Will we see groups formed and paid funds by Tulsa citizens?…

Editorial: Homelessness increases in Tulsa

July 25, 2019

Homelessness is up in Tulsa by 10 percent this year. It went up 8 percent last year, according to the Rev. Steve Whitaker, senior pastor and CEO of John 3:16 Mission. Oklahoma has about 4,000 verifiable homeless people. And that number is growing. Why? Unemployment is down. The national economy is the best in decades….

Editorial: Ratcheting up racial tensions

July 25, 2019

Some Americans – mostly liberal Democrat leaders – are doing their best to rachet up racial tensions in our nation. Every policy decision made by President Donald Trump results in him being called a “racist” on CNN, MSNBC, in the New York Times, in the Washington Post and in the House of Representatives. Similarly, if…

Editorial: Get out of the casino business

July 25, 2019

The gambling pact between the State of Oklahoma and the tribes is about to expire. First, it’s gambling, not “gaming.” Gaming makes it sound like a harmless pastime while gambling is a more correct term. You walk into a casino, you most likely will lose money. That’s gambling. When former Gov. Brad Henry and state…

Editorial: Farmers are facing challenges

July 18, 2019

Rain has probably hurt farmers more than the threat of tariffs by President Trump. The President is well aware that when he threatens China or others with tariffs, that could retaliate with their own tariffs and that could have an adverse effect on farmers in America. Trump got a special appropriation to ease that situation…

Editorial: Jury is out on tax hike impacts

July 18, 2019

State officials claim the new cigarette tax increase is working because tax revenues are up and the sale of cigarettes is down. State smokers bought almost 60 million fewer packs of cigarettes during the 2018-2019 fiscal year (July through June) – about a 25 percent drop from the previous fiscal year. And the new $1…

Editorial: Earthquakes decline in Oklahoma

July 18, 2019

For three straight years, the number of Oklahoma earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or higher has declined and that trend has continued in 2019. While Californians nervously await the next shock, Oklahomans are close to breathing a sigh of relief. The numbers keep dropping and the quakes are lessening in intensity. Part of the…

Letter: Appalling Democrat debates

July 18, 2019 Duane Collins

There are two words that best describes the two debates we’ve witnessed so far . . . appalled and bewildered. Never would I have imagined that twenty Democrat presidential candidates would stand together and make such outlandish statements to the American people – promising, that if they are elected, they will actually implement these horrendous…

Editorial: The court ruled correctly

July 11, 2019

Sometimes common sense prevails in the court system. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a World War I-era cross in Maryland did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The justices voted 7-2 against efforts by atheist and secularist groups who for years have tried to wipe any trace of Christianity…