Articles written by Wayne Trotter
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More Waste
James Lankford, who through 2014 was Pottawatomie County’s voice in the House of Representatives,...
Our Holiday
The early grade-school portrait of American settlers — American pilgrims to be specific ...
Save Our Parks
How many state parks are there in Oklahoma? Don’t ask. We did what most people would in this...
A Waste Of Time
When someone has been in the news business for as long as a select few of us can reasonably claim,...
A Good Thing
Oklahoma received a great deal of unquestionably positive, unusually rare and hopefully very...
Sales Tax Split Again In September
Six up, five down ... and if some customer had shelled out a few more bucks almost anywhere in...
Not All The Time
Goodness. Things are getting dicey up in Washington, aren’t they? By the time you have an...
Lankford Predicts Results of President's Impeachment
Democrats in the House of Representatives "are determined" to impeach Donald Trump but the...
Jamming The Jail
Every now and then, one law or practice gets in the way of another and messes everything up. Just...
A Better Way?
The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association — better known in school circles merely as...
A Good Bill
Danny Sterling probably knows a great deal more about education than most of his colleagues in the...
Sales Tax Collections Split Across The County
Six were up, five were down and one was getting ready to join the fun for the first time. A horse...
It's Stupid
In the memory spans of many aging loyal Americans, two presidents of these United States have...
The Gray Lady
Back in those good old days when newspapers were rarely challenged as the No. 1 source of...
About Trusts
This and that about that and this: Every now and then, you know, it seems like a few people in...
A Big Difference
As of this year, government figures reveal, 113,114 people work for the United States Department of...
Earlsboro Records Largest Sales Tax Revenue Increase
When the Oklahoma Tax Commission issued its July sales tax report last Thursday, there wasn’t...
Mysterious Forces
All right, fellow Oklahoma taxpayers, welcome to the land of can-do, can’t do and might work on it...
All-American Grief
In the history of these United States of America, few weekends have been as tragic as Saturday,...
This And That
This and that about that and this: √ Good things come to those who keep working! Don’t believe...
Nothing Is Right
If someone asked you where the idea of a national minimum wage began, what would you answer? Would...
June 2019 Sales Tax Looks A Lot Like June 2018
Call it the doles of summer. Blame it on all this wet heat. Or just come up with a theory you can...
That Mouth
Far be it from us to attempt to regularly advise or criticize Donald Trump on the way he handles...
A Good Move
How would you react if you were told that people who work for your state government are spending...
Self-Made Man
Ross Perot will likely go down as a footnote in American history but he deserves a great deal more...
