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Kingfisher County Farm Bureau is now offering free fruit, vegetable and flower seeds at three different locations in the county.
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Hennessey High School graduate Bryan Gutierrez was chosen to receive a $500 Leadership Hennessey scholarship, but his name was inadvertently left off the list provided to The Times & Free Press.
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Kingfisher businessman Brian Walter’s efforts to fulfill former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s dream of a reformed national Congress are most commendable.
Read moreThe Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded its commentary award to The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the “1619 Project.” This will accelerate a trend already under way: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity.
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I am a voracious reader of obituaries about people I don’t know and I’ll admit that some obits I read with a deep sense of sadness, and a few with just a smidgen of joy. One conclusion I’ve reached is that far too many obituaries are either too long, or too short. Many people who have led very full, rich and rewarding lives get only a short paragraph or two, while scoundrels, mass murderers, rapists, crooks and career politicians get half a page.
Read more[Ed. Note: Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.
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Our country has been in the hands of career politicians, seems like forever. They are gradually getting weeded out. However, the chaos they have caused in the last almost four years, has caused turmoil and dissent the like of which our country has never seen.
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The House in early May passed a $7.7 billion general appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2021. The governor first vetoed three of the appropriations bills that supported the budget. When those bills got overridden with votes in the House of 97-3, 95-5 and 94-4, he vetoed the entire budget. In what was perhaps the fastest veto override in state history, the House overrode his veto within hours of it being filed. The budget is now law.
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