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Be a leader, passionate for change
By if JtaVonnd RkûÂà- 
May 8, 2025
¿aVonnCvà I have stood beside those I respect in authority and I have also lead with that same authority when I saw the need for change. Whether personally or professionally one thing is constantly co...
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Discrediting misinformation concerning our nation’s historic tariffs
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Discrediting misinformation concerning our nation’s historic tariffs
By ? r. James Finck, USAD History Professor 
May 8, 2025
--------------- current events through a historical lens------------------------ There is a popular meme going around the internet. The caption to the picture reads, “We’ve done this mass tariff thing...
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Praise for local crackdown on drug crimes
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Praise for local crackdown on drug crimes
By REP. TIM TURNER 
May 8, 2025
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma this week ann ounced the life sentence of Heath Lloyd Taylor, a drug trafficker who led an organ ization in eastern Oklahoma wh...
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Delivering results for Oklahomans
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Delivering results for Oklahomans
By REPRESENTATIVE NEIL HAYS (405) 
May 8, 2025
557-7302 As we enter the final stretch of this year’s legislative session, I’m proud to report that the Oklahoma House is making real, tangible progress. We are not only advancing sound legislation, b...
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Many positive youth policies moving forward
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Many positive youth policies moving forward
By JOE DORMAN, OICA CEO 
May 1, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY – The 2025 Oklahoma legislative session is almost three-fourths of the way done for the year with adjournment occurring in late May, and a good number of positive bills are moving forwar...
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A Balm in Gilead
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A Balm in Gilead
May 1, 2025
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of my people? In Jeremiah 8:22 these questions are asked, but I find myself asking...
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Local Teams Recognized
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Local Teams Recognized
By REP. TIM TURNER 
May 1, 2025
This was a special week for me in the House of Representatives. I got to recognize two extraordinary basketball teams. First up was the Connors State College Men’s Basketball Team under Head Coach Bil...
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historically Speaking
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historically Speaking
May 1, 2025
There are many like me who may be a bit confused about tariffs. In theory, tariffs, taxes on imported goods, seem like something I would support. After all, if nothing else, I am pro-America. And anyt...
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Capitol Update
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Capitol Update
May 1, 2025
Rep. Neil Hays 405-557-7302 The last two weeks have been full of meaningful work at the Capitol, especially within the Government Oversight Committee. I’m proud to report that as the vice chair of the...
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Teach your children
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Teach your children
April 24, 2025
I believe one of the greatest privileges as a parent is the responsibility of teaching your children about Jesus. Do you talk to your kids about Jesus? Deuteronomy 6:7 says “You shall teach them dilig...
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Shades of Gray (and Red Dirt) lead to political civility
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Shades of Gray (and Red Dirt) lead to political civility
By JOE DORMAN, OICA CEO 
April 24, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY – Do you consider your world view as “black & white” versus “shades of gray?” For my entire life, I can only remember a few times in my younger days that I felt so strongly about one sid...
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Letters
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Letters
April 24, 2025
Oklahoma Senate and House Committee on Appropriations and Budget 2300 N Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105 Dear Senate Pro Tempore Paxton, Speaker Hilbert, Chairman Hall, Chairman Caldwell and App...
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Remembering the OKC Bombing
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Remembering the OKC Bombing
By REP. TIM TURNER 
April 24, 2025
This week, the Oklahoma Legislature convened in a joint session to remember the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. My constituents Billy and Joyce Cleve...
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Deadlines, oversight and Oklahoma values
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Deadlines, oversight and Oklahoma values
By REPRESENTATIVE NEIL HAYS (405) 557-7302 
April 24, 2025
The Capitol is full of energy as we approach another key legislative deadline. This week, House oversight committees are diligently working through a large volume of Senate bills that must be heard be...
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Honored for Protecting Second Amendment Rights
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Honored for Protecting Second Amendment Rights
By REP. TIM TURNER 
April 17, 2025
was named Legislator of the Year by the Oklahoma Rifle Association. I am honored to have been chosen for this award as I believe our citizens’ ond Amendment rights are very valuable and worth protecti...
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Opinion One last ride
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Opinion One last ride
April 17, 2025
One thing in this life is certain - that is the fact that we all have an appointment with death. Hebrews 9:27 states “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” Though ...
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Access to support services vital for student success
By JOE DORMAN OICACEO 
April 17, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY - When it comes to ideas emanating from the State Capitol, there is no perfect solution to problems faced by what a bill might address. Such is the case with Senate Bill 105. The bill wo...
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Letters
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Letters
By Letter to the Editor 
April 17, 2025
Who would’ve thought that Josh Brecheen and Markwayne Mullen were forward thinkers? (Who would’ve thought they were thinkers?) But they figured out years ago to do telephone town hall meetings instead...
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To what degree should judicial review extend to the executive branch?
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To what degree should judicial review extend to the executive branch?
April 17, 2025
So far in President Trump’s short second term his greatest adversary has been the judicial branch. Some of his programs have been blocked by federal judges while others already have been overturned. T...
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Animosity or altruism
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Animosity or altruism
April 10, 2025
Animosity or altruism, the choice is yours. These two contrasting concepts describe the different attitudes in society today One can harbor animosity towards anyone who thinks differently than they do...
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Mary Isham retires from USPS
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Mary Isham retires from USPS
By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER 
May 8, 2025
Mary Isham retired last week after 20 years with the Checotah Post Office. She started her career with USPS Dec 25, 2004. “I was a stay-at-home mom of four kids until my youngest started school,” Isha...
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Community invited to Memorial Day Service at Greenlawn Cemetery
May 8, 2025
Honoring All Veterans Friday, May 23 at 5 p.m. Veterans Park in Checotah Free Hotdog & Hamburgers Games and Fellowship Compliments of the McIntosh County DAV The DAV Chapter 3 Mc-Intosh County will ho...
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Checotah Schools Dates to Remember
May 8, 2025
May 9 – Kindergarten Graduation May 16 – CIS Track Meet on Football Field May 16 - 9th-12th Awards Assembly at 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. at PAC May 16 – Emerson Ramsey Talent Show (MS/HS) from 1:30 -2:30 p.m....
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Early voting May 8, 9
May 8, 2025
On May 13 there will be a general election for State Senate District 8 and for Green Country Tech Center Proposition. Early voting for those two elections will be at the Mc-Intosh County Courthouse fr...
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Pooches paraded at Art and Bark in the Park
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Pooches paraded at Art and Bark in the Park
By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER 
May 8, 2025
The first annual Art and Bark in the Park presented by the Checotah Art Guild was a great success! Visitors had fun choosing outfits and accessories to put on their dogs from the large selection provi...
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