Time For Some New Adventures

Socked feet propped up on a chair, flipping through the pages of a pile of police reports before tossing them into different piles on the vinyl floor.

CAPITOL NOTES

For this week’s column, I wanted to discuss Senate Bill 784, which I co-authored, presented and passed in the House State Powers committee earlier in the week.

Senate Notes

A couple of weeks ago, I shared our ongoing efforts to further strengthen the Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act, which I successfully carried through the Legislature and was signed into law by Governor Stitt in 2019.

Tecumseh Golden Age Center

In 2022, we will be observing a Christian cultural tradition known as Easter or Resurrection Sunday at one of the latest times it can occur in a year.

THE VIEW FROM THE HILL

On the first day of the Biden presidency, he announced he would not permit the Keystone Pipeline to bring heavy crude oil from Canada, but we could purchase the same amount of heavy crude oil from Russia. How did that foreign policy decision work out?

CAPITOL REPORT

The Board of Equalization met Feb. 22 to certify $10.49 billion for state appropriations for the next fiscal year, which begins this July 1. This exceeded the amount the board projected in December, which shows our Oklahoma economy is strong. This record high amount is great news for Oklahomans.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, stories are now oozing out of the Washington, D.C. swamp that the Biden Administration is allegedly considering diverting medical personnel from Veterans Affair locations to our southern border to help with an expected tsunami of illegal migrants...

CAPITOL NOTES

Last week, the House again passed the Save Women’s Sports Act. If this bill sounds familiar, it’s because we passed it initially last year, but the Senate did not hear it before the session ended.

Sanity’s Last Stand

Lately, my son is on my mind a lot. He’s my only child, other than my stepdaughter who is of my heart. My son is a natural born scientist. He spent his educational years with his head buried in books and scribbling mathematical equations on a dry erase board.

Senate Review

Wednesday was Aero Day at the Capitol.