Sunday’s “Tulsa World” said the state House of Representatives has increased their own spending by 5.3 percent to $8.982 million since July 1. The article said they have continued to hire new employees, give raises and pay thousands to outside attorneys. Remember this all happened why they were not even in session.
More than eight months ago, the city of Shawnee and the Greater Shawnee Area Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign focused on cleaning up the community and making it more attractive. This week I asked Justin Erickson, the city’s Community Development director, to provide somewhat of a progress report from his perspective.
Drip both hot and cold water during freezing temperatures
I just wanted to remind people that when you drip your faucet during a freeze, you need to drip both the hot and the cold. I did not know that, to my detriment, this past storm. I just wanted to pass on this information.
Despite the wintry weather, and the fact most of the schools throughout Pottawatomie County were closed on Monday, more than 400 people showed up that night for the annual pig roast and trophy auction to help set a new record.
As lawmakers converge on the State Capitol for the 2010 legislative session, the first order of business is to address the revenue shortfall caused by the lingering national recession. Difficult decisions await state leaders, but I am confident that, with bipartisan cooperation, we can craft a balanced budget to preserve core government services.
The title country bumkin suits me just fine. I don’t have a college education or claim to know everything. I would rather work with cows as I had people. They don’t kill each other or complain too much.
Shawnee city commissioners may be on the verge of missing out on a golden opportunity for a fourth interchange on I-40. To the dismay of many we have visited with the past several days, the commissioners put on hold a resolution reaffirming its support for an interchange on I-40 at Bryan Street.
Shawnee city commissioners will open bids on the new Shawnee Regional Airport terminal building during their meeting Monday night.
Shawnee’s Greater Area Chamber of Commerce has set its annual banquet for Thursday, Feb. 18, in the conference center of the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center.
Honoring the 2009 chairman of the board Ron Henderson, the evening will start at 6 p.m. with a reception and dinner will begin at 6:30 with the awards presentations to follow.
I’ve lived in the country for 53 years, I was here when no one else was. I’ve raised 3 generations out here.
In all the years I’ve always had a dog. I’ve never had to pen them up, nor have I had any problems.
The annual “Quality Counts” survey published by Education Week magazine earlier this month had some good news for Oklahoma: our state’s system of education showed improvements in publication’s annual rankings.
In defense of Kermit, I have to say that every feed lot I’ve ever seen was a horror. My son calls the huge one in the Central Valley of California “cowschwitz”, a play on words for Auschwitz, the German concentration camp.
Shawnee Educational Foundation Hall of Fame Banquet is scheduled Thursday, Feb. 4, in the Geiger Center at OBU, April Stobbe has announced. It will begin at 7 p.m. and will honor Hall of Fame recipient, Frank Kennon, and area grant winning teachers.
Kermit, I find trying to cause injury to an industry that feeds the world an unusual way to have fun. I am just a country bumkin and not used to big words like apolitical and industrial feed lots. What is an industrial feedlot? You will have to speak plain English for me.
Tuesday, Scott Brown won the Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. Why did he win? Was it a referendum on Barack Obama’s presidency? Was it a referendum on the direction of government in general? Senator-Elect Brown ran a campaign against the government takeover of health care, against further taking of our rights by government, and against more spending by government; and he won.
Each person should be responsible for own health
What would happen if each one of us took responsibility for our own health? How about making health insurance a priority purchase ahead of that new car or big screen TV? What about making good personal health choices and taking responsibility for poor ones. Should other taxpayers shoulder the burden of your bad decisions? Just wondered.
Our Republic is critically ill. Ask my doctor, nurse or hospice worker about the signs of impending death of a critically ill patient and they will list: Cessation of kidney function; lack of warmth in the extremities; fluctuating heart and blood pressure rates; and shallow breathing to name just a few.
All the folderol about animal waste ruining our world brings up a question: Has there ever been a study on how much manure was, and is, scattered over our planet by wild animals and pets? Of the millions of bison that formerly roamed our land, did they deposit less or more chips than our present herds of cattle?
Shawnee’s Airport Advisory board will be discussing the new terminal project when it meets this evening. The meeting, open to the public, will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the terminal building at 2202 Airport Drive.
I was surprised that my comments on cheese elicited so many responses, and once again, I say “terrific.” My purpose in writing is not only to have fun and to get people to consider things that they might not otherwise think about but also to encourage civil discourse about topics that fill our everyday lives and decisions that connect us, thanks to the global economy, to the rest of the world.
