Is your life under control or under construction? If it’s under control then it’s managed, restrained, regulated and disciplined. People who manage their emotions stay composed, calm, steady and have ...

Welcome back to Marketing on Main Street. If this is your first time joining us, you can find past columns on the Cookson Hills Publishers blog at Cookson. News. In this series, we focus on practical ...

Summer Start & Senior Send Off is set for Tuesday, May 5 from 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Checotah Sports Complex. There will be food trucks and free water. 3rd-5th graders will have a kickball tourn...

As I watched one local church depict the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ this past Thursday and Friday and then heard my pastor and other pastors preach about the significance of the resu...

This week has been especially active at the Capitol as oversight c ommit tees work through one of the most imp ortant stages of the legislative session. At this point in the process, all remaining Hou...

I miss the days of true creative writing – you know, when you could write a real paragraph and your readers could keep up with the story. You didn’t have to throw in a bunch of pictures or short and s...

There are so many things messed up in this world today and so many things that I will never understand. Like how do people just walk away from a family pet that they’ve had three years or 13 years all...

James Finck’s last piece is leaning towards fascism. I don’t know anyone who thinks Trump didn’t win the election, but we do know he got beat in 2020 and instigated an insurrection. The first thing he...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Neil Hays, R-Checotah, secured unanimous approval today in the House Civil Judiciary Committee for House Bill 4260, a measure aimed at strengthening workers’ compensation protecti...

Death is an inevitable part of life but I have learned by loving the living that their death often defines us. I have lost many family members and friends during my life. In the last two weeks I have ...

The second week of the legislative session was devoted primarily to committee work. Several of my bills passed this first step in the legislative process. House Bill 3759 passed the Appropriations and...

It has already been a strong start to the legislative season. Feb. 2 marked the start of the Second Session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature. The opening day included a joint session of the Oklahoma H...

Wow how quickly this world can turn from grateful to hateful! It seems like the enemy is always trying to steal your joy, even on a Sunday! What should have been the Lord’s Day became a halftime heada...

I thought that saying goodbye to my McIntosh County Democrat office was the hardest thing I would ever go through this month and season of my life. I knew I would miss having my own space to write wit...

Well if you are reading this then you survived the Christmas countdown of 2025 and all the holiday hoopla. Now it’s on to 2026 and what this year will hold for us. For some it comes with the excitemen...

If I had to describe my main priority as your attorney general, it boils down to this: I fight every day to do what’s right for the people of Oklahoma. That holds true now more than ever in the fight ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - As 2026 begins, the topic of insurance affordability and what can be done to keep costs from going up is top-of-mind. While much of that discussion will occur at the federal level and ...

One of my favorite aspects of the Christmas season is how the spirit of Christ makes people just a little bit kinder. People look out for the welfare of their fellow man just that much more. Finding w...

Another year around the sun and as I turned 57 on Dec. 30 I realize that no matter how old we get – we all need Jesus. Though the world may label us old, out dated or off our rockers, the truth is wit...

OKLAHOMA CITY – It is hard to believe that 2025 has come to an end. For those of us at the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA), I must say that our work felt incredibly important this year wi...