Articles written by Wayne Trotter
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Tale Of Two Cities
Some readers may feel that this editorial is a little out of date given recent and largely welcomed...
A Life Well Lived
When one of 10 children was born to a sharecropper family in 1940, Frank M. Dixon was governor of...
Go For It, Senator!
We can say one thing about James Lankford, Oklahoma's junior senator and before that, the congressma...
A New Start
Some pretty strange things are going on the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave right now......
What A Mess
Thank you, Supreme Court, we suppose. Thank you for waiting 113 years to conclude that after...
Thank You All
Meanwhile back in Shawnee, some changes in city government were made official with or without permis...
Maybe You'll Never Know The Answer
Your friendly editorial and occasional column writer spent the better part of two decades trying to...
Defund To Refund
A lot of strange things happened in the country most of us know and love over the Fourth of July...
This 'N That
This and that about that and this ... in an era of COVID-19, shutdowns, shutoffs and people who...
Help The 'Kids'
"The Supreme Court has now ruled that every future president has to abide by any previous president'...
Bad Idea
Anyone who believes that defunding police departments would automatically result in kinder,...
Our Tragedy
Regular followers of The Countywide & Sun may recall that the major editorial topic last week...
An American Tragedy
Summer isn't officially here yet - (for the record, the sizzling season will arrive in the Northern...
This 'N That
This and that about that and this ... in no particular order: At last! An Oklahoma Legislature that...
To Tell The Truth
The first newspaper we helped produce was "printed" on a hectograph back in the fourth or fifth...
That Rumble
These days it’s hard to tell whether Oklahoma’s solidly Republican governor is throwing monkey...
A Big Thank You
It’s wasn’t easy to be sure about this, but Tuesday Past really was the end of the 2019-20...
Wait For It
There are occasional moments in America’s relentless pursuit of a truly equal democracy when the...
A Good Idea
An eight-page proposed law approved 76-20 by the Oklahoma House of Representatives not too long...
The Perils Of The Plague, COVID-19 Style
Where did Sunday go? Do we have one anymore? For that matter, where did Monday, Tues-day,...
Cheer Up!
Cheer up, America! And that especially means you, Oklahoma! We know you’ve been through a number...
Many Due Praise
It makes very little difference whether you like or dislike Donald J. Trump, you almost have to ackn...
Never Forget
Twenty-five years ago this coming Sunday, an event occurred in Oklahoma City that sadly is part of O...
RIP, Dr. Tom
You don’t have to be in the news business long before you begin to encounter politicians. In the...
The Best Of Times
These clearly are not the best of times. But if there is a brighter side, it has to be that so far...
