Chance to change schools is April 5

Very rarely do we all get an opportunity to help change the trajectory of an entire community. I believe we are presented with such an opportunity on April 5.

Clinton student teaches me how to show pigs

I had the opportunity to join Mindy Sawatzky from the Clinton FFA Chapter at the Oklahoma Youth Expo’s (OYE) Legislative Showmanship event last week.Mindy taught me how to show her pig and it was a great time seeing many of my peers experience showing livestock.

Finding the right balance is tough

It's a terrible, terrible decision that he faces." That's “ Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, on CNN, describing President Joe Biden's dilemma as Vladimir Putin escalates his attacks on Ukraine, civilian casualties mount, and a horrified world watches on social media.

Looking for more Marinas

I find myself awed and somewhat shamed by the moral authority and enormous courage of Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who materialized on the set of Russian state TV's flagship news program on March 14 holding a handlettered poster with Ukrainian and Russian flags, which read, in English, "No War"...

Should U.S. end its reliance on oil?

The Los Angeles Times argues that, along with banning Russian imports, the U.S. should end its dependence on fossil fuels.President Biden's recent announcement that the U.S. will ban imports of Russian oil and gas underscores the inherent instability and danger of our reliance on fossil fuels.

City Council action was long overdue

Last month the Clinton City Council made a bold decision that will make our town more appealing and in the process help protect home values here.In a unanimous vote, the council tightened existing laws on the books that restrict parking automobiles in the front yard of residences.

Why Nancy Pelosi is nervous

House Democrats recently went on their annual retreat in Philadelphia. The purpose was to discuss policy initiatives for the coming months and, most of all, to come up with a message for midterm elections that Democrats are widely expected to lose.

Adjusting to body clock shock

People in most parts of the United States set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday so that darkness falls later in the day, a seasonal shift that is enforced by the federal government.

Freedom is tested once again

Albert Einstein, who knew something about how the world works, believed that freedom "is only possible by constantly struggling for it."In our popular conception of history, many of the touchstones of that struggle are far in the past.

Welcoming the Ukrainian refugees

Avram Rogowsky grew up in Bialystok, then a part of the Russian Empire and now in Poland, near its eastern border with Belarus. In 1914, he escaped from the czar's army, boarded a ship for Palestine and planned to send for his betrothed, Miriam Wasilsky.