Invest in Clinton’s future!

Let there be no doubt that it costs lots of money to renovate and build new schools. It also took a lot of money to construct the current Clinton Middle School building 87 years ago.

Littke, Lady Reds 4th at Ft. Cobb tourney

FORT COBB – Clinton Lady Reds golf placed fourth at the Fort Cobb tournament earlier this week.Addyson Littke turned in a team-best 90 to finish fourth overall.Altus won the tournament, followed by Elk City, Merritt and Clinton.INDIVIDUAL RESULTS (FT. COBB)Addyson Littke (90)Kambree Davis...

Addressing marijuana industry

We’ve officially passed the second reading deadline to hear measures in our chamber, which typically means we’re about halfway through this session.We approved 320 measures that will now make their way across the rotunda to our colleagues in the House of Representatives for their review.

Company culture may not be a fit for new employee

DEAR HARRIETTE: My new job has a much more laid-back work environment than I am used to. At the orientation, the higher-ups shared a number of important rules and guidelines with the new hires, but I seem to be the only employee who's following them.

DO JUST ONE THING

● Gasoline is hitting record prices, so every little action you can take to be as fuel-efficient as possible helps. The easiest way to improve efficiency by as much as 20%? Drive the posted speed limit.

The lesson of Judge Jackson

Elections have consequences. Just consider two numbers: 234 and 3. The first is how many federal judges Donald Trump appointed during his four years in office.

Running for office in post-truth America

A Facebook item posted the other day by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, onetime Trump administration minister of disinformation and current Arkansas gubernatorial candidate, features a photo of Sanders grinning like a possum in front of her campaign truck.

Starting wars easy; challenge ending them

If Winston Churchill were here – and some of us saw him, or his latest incarnation, this month, addressing the U.S. Congress on the plight of his beleaguered and besieged country – he would not know whether the conflict in Ukraine is only beginning, or is nearing its end, or merely is at the end of...

Chance to change schools is April 5

Very rarely do we all get an opportunity to help change the trajectory of an entire community.

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.Unfortunately, we didn’t win the...