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Below is a letter that was shared with us that was originally sent to Governor Stitt from one of our friends and local residents.
Honorable Governor Stitt,
Read moreI did fairly good on memory stuff until I got to be about 80. Then I noticed it was hard for me to remember some people’s names. Names of some trees also come to mind.
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African American oil broker and civil rights advocate, Jake Simmons, was born on January 17, 1901 in Indian Territory at Sawokla, which later became Haskell.
Read moreThe typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. You read it right, 47 times!!!
Read moreAlongside I-40 going into Oklahoma City is a large billboard informing passersby that a large percentage of Oklahoma’s children face a hungry bedtime. In other words, need food. When I saw it, I thought of the old “Feed the Children” programs picturing little skinny starving kids needing some food and we need to “give” some money. But this was right here in America and that disturbs me. In fact, I do not believe it. These programs may be running to take financial care of those who happen to be running them with feeding kids as a secondary factor.
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(PART I) Get a pencil and piece of paper and take the test. The weekend’s over and test time....remember? This is for the “younger” generation (assuming a few of them read this stuff. In 1977, I celebrated my 20 th year of teaching!!! Just sayin’.
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Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.
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