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When will low- income Americans stop looking to government?
Read moreWe’ve become a nation of pompous two-faced frauds. We like to eat good food but hate the farmers and ranchers who produced it. We think food comes from the grocery store and that water comes from the tap. We cuss fossil fuels and yet drive cars and trucks that run on oil and gas. We turn up the thermostat in winter and expect heat to automatically come on as if it was produced by magic. Ditto air conditioning in the summer. The only time we think about it is if the grid goes down. Voters elect politicians who vow to get rid of fossil fuels not even thinking of the repercussions and then complain to high heaven when there are blackouts that last for three days like the ones they have in California when everyone turns on their air conditioner at the same time.
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It’s taken a while, but perhaps we can now cautiously predict that after almost three years of chaos following the emergence of the wrecking ball that was COVID-19, that things have leveled off.
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Gov. Stitt on Sept. 12 issued an executive order to deliver up to $3 million in drought relief to farmers in western Oklahoma and other parts of the state hit hard by the current drought conditions, worsened by the effects of inflation. I’m glad to see his commitment to help those who help feed the rest of us.
Read moreQueen Elizabeth II, who died last week after a 70year reign, served as an icon of composure – grace under pressure.
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Years ago I was invited to speak during an elementary school Career Day program as our town’s newspaper editor A student asked, “Is your job dangerous?”
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