Opinion

This year, lawmakers took several steps to help protect Oklahoma consumers by authorizing the option for incentive programs and ensuring better transparency and fair pricing. SB 462 creates the Oklahoma Right to Shop Act, which authorizes insurance carriers to offer a shared savings incentive program to enrollees when obtaining a comparable health care service from providers that charge less than the average amount.

As I am sitting on my balcony of a boat traveling down the Mosel River in Germany, passing picturesque villages founded before Christopher Columbus was even born, I am in awe of this place with its castles and massive churches. While I am having a dream vacation, I am also thinking upon what the history of this region can teach. As you know, I believe history is here for us to learn from, and while I was spending a few days in Paris, eating some amazing food, I have realized how part of France’s history may be mirroring our own right now.

Dear editor, Perhaps, like many of our readers, my view of the motivations and intent for destroying this great nation have varied; especially, the main actors and their ‘true believers’ who always have a fresh batch of blue Kool Aid. No cheating---Quick, name three policies the current administration has done that benefits all of America.

Dear editor, A little girl enters life with all the eggs she’ll ever carry. After puberty and during her entire child-bearing life, she usually-- but not always--releases one egg at a time per month.

Dear editor, Growing up during the summer in Shawnee, kids were usually at a friend’s house until dark, at the community pool at Municipal Park, or at the Lions Club field either playing baseball or watching their friends play baseball for the YMCA. However, there was one thing that was very concerning to me coaching this year, and to other parents as well, and that was the state of the fields.

Dear editor, As the recent SCOTUS decision reversing Roe v. Wade was read, the largest crowd in history gathered in front of the court’s building to demonstrate.