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Stidham Basketball Team and OSBI recognized in House
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Stidham Basketball Team and OSBI recognized in House
By REP. TIM TURNER 
April 10, 2025
This week I was fortunate to be able to recognize members of the State Championship Stidham Redhawks basketball team in the House of Representatives. This team of through eighth graders, under Coach D...
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Dear Humanities Supporters,
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Dear Humanities Supporters,
April 10, 2025
As we shared yesterday (April 2), the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently began targeting the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) with the intention of significantly reducing s...
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Tackling Senate Bills, strengthening Oklahoma
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Tackling Senate Bills, strengthening Oklahoma
By REPRESENTATIVE NEIL HAYS (405) 557-7302 
April 10, 2025
This week, the House is reviewing 321 Senate bills as they move through the comm ittee process before advancing to the floor for debate and votes. I am proud to coauthor several key pieces of legislat...
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Constitution 101: Senate Impeachment Clause
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Constitution 101: Senate Impeachment Clause
April 10, 2025
A primary goal of the Founders was to protect the people from a strong federal government. They accomplished this with a series of checks and balances where all three branches received relatively equa...
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Be prepared for Oklahoma natural disasters
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Be prepared for Oklahoma natural disasters
By JOE DORMAN, OICA CEO 
March 20, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY – I want to extend my condolences to those families who were impacted by severe storms this past week. From reports that were aired, it sounds like many Oklahomans were lucky to get away...
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Aging is a gift
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Aging is a gift
March 20, 2025
Aging is a gradual and inevitable process that no man or woman can change. It affects us all physically, mentally and even emotionally as time passes by and refuses to wait for anyone. Aging is so com...
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Letters
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Letters
March 20, 2025
To the editor Anyone notice that when wildfires swept through L.A. two months ago the holier-than-thous wasted no time proclaiming it was God’s wrath upon sinful people, but when those same fires stru...
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Third Reading of Bills
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Third Reading of Bills
By REP. TIM TURNER 
March 20, 2025
Part of legislative procedure is that each bill must be read three times in each chamber the House and the Senate. First reading for a bill in its chamber of origin generally takes place the first day...
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Remembering Gene Hackman
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Remembering Gene Hackman
March 20, 2025
With the sad and tragic story emerging of how Gene Hackman died, it is worth taking a moment to remember the joy he brought the world. To make one or two really good movies is rare, but to make as man...
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Committee deadline met; bills head to the House floor
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Committee deadline met; bills head to the House floor
By REP. TIM TURNER 
March 13, 2025
What a busy week at the State Capitol. We had until March 6 to get all House bills passed in oversight committees for them to move forward this year. We held multiple meetings that were jam packed. We...
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When legends are born, legacies are left
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When legends are born, legacies are left
March 13, 2025
When legends are born no one realizes it until decades later the legacies that will be left behind by them. Isn’t this ironic that people can become so iconic yet they never dreamed of becoming such l...
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March 13, 2025
Thank You Thank you from the family of Bobby Frame for the generous outpouring of love, kindness, flowers, care, visits, and prayers. It was a beautiful community sharing our grief during the loss of ...
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Advancing election integrity and local heroes
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Advancing election integrity and local heroes
By REPRESENTATIVE NEIL HAYS (405) 
March 13, 2025
557-7302 We are now a month into the legislative session, and House bills are beginning to reach the floor for a vote. I have co-authored important bills that work toward ensuring that Oklahomans have...
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Constitution 101: Senate Leadership Clauses
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Constitution 101: Senate Leadership Clauses
March 13, 2025
Have you ever considered what the vice president does all day? My guess is probably not, but the framers of the Constitution did. When they got to the point where they considered a vice president, his...
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Always a daddy’s girl
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Always a daddy’s girl
March 6, 2025
On Feb. 11 my daddy would have been 82, but I lost him 15 years ago which does not even seem possible. Though I had my daddy for 42 years and will always be a daddy’s girl, I still wonder what makes s...
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Be a part of the solution March 11 at Child Advocacy Day
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Be a part of the solution March 11 at Child Advocacy Day
By JOE DORMAN, OICA CEO 
March 6, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY – Decisions are made by those who show up, as quoted by President Jed Bartlet from “The West Wing.” Voters who take the time to cast ballots make the decisions. Oklahoma has one of the w...
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Committee work winding down
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Committee work winding down
By REP. TIM TURNER 
March 6, 2025
We have one more week for oversight committees to meet in the House, and then we’ll begin hearing many more bills on the House floor. This year, the House has gone to a two-step process for all policy...
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Ensuring effective laws through oversight
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Ensuring effective laws through oversight
By REPRESENTATIVE NEIL HAYS (405) 
March 6, 2025
The legislative process should be thorough and deliberate to ensure the best outcomes for our state. As lawmakers, we have a responsibility to ensure that every piece of legislation is carefully consi...
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DOGE underscores gradual power shift between legislative, executive branches
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DOGE underscores gradual power shift between legislative, executive branches
March 6, 2025
This may be the most difficult column I have ever written. When it comes to the Department of Government Efficiency, I really have no idea what’s going on. How is that for an opener? What makes me fee...
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Hoarding, a definite disorder
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Hoarding, a definite disorder
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February 27, 2025
JLdUOnnCiA' Hoarding is a mental health condition of collecting and keeping too many things that may or may not have value. Hoarding is definitely a disorder and can cause major problems rather quickl...
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More adoptions, less litters
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More adoptions, less litters
By LADONNA RHODES STAFF WRITER 
April 23, 2026
Two more city pound dogs found their forever homes through Paws N Claws rescue efforts this week. McIntosh County and abroad definitely need more adoptions and less litters of puppies and kittens. Of ...
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Checotah daycare case moves forward in district court
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Checotah daycare case moves forward in district court
April 23, 2026
SHAUNA BELYEU GENERAL MANAGER A Checotah couple accused of abusing children in an in-home daycare appeared April 16 in McIntosh County District Court for a preliminary hearing before Associate Distric...
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Election Board hears contest in county commissioners race
April 23, 2026
The McIntosh County Election Board heard testimony at 10 a.m.Thursday, April 16, in a contest of candidacy filed against District 1 County Commissioner candidate Jeffery Coleman (Mc-Intosh County sher...
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Suspect accused of striking patrol car, fleeing deputies before arrest
By SHAUNA BELYEU GENERAL MANAGER 
April 23, 2026
A McIntosh County man was arrested April 16 on a complaint of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to a probable cause affidavit. Steven Wayne Smith, 54, of Checotah, was taken into ...
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Senior Send Off and upcoming events
April 23, 2026
It’s hard to believe another school year has already come and is almost gone as seniors prepare for their last days in class, on stages and on the field. Here are a few end of the year events to remem...
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