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Did any of you ever pick cotton?
If you were picking by yourself, what did you do while you picked? Did you sing or make up stories or poems?
Back in 1928, a young man named Albert was picking …
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By Dolores Kiser |
11/25/21 05:20 PM
Recently, quietly, an Oklahoma school district eviscerated the traditional canon of world literature in American education. According to KFOR news agency, the Edmond Independent School District …
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By Phyllis Rustin |
11/25/21 04:28 PM
Meeting Oklahoma patients where they are is an important part of health care. When it comes to serving Oklahomans in rural counties, having a presence in that community is vital. Providers get to …
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By Larry Dalton |
11/25/21 01:08 PM
Oklahoma Representative J.J. Humphrey wrote in The Durant Democrat on October 14, 2021, something too disturbing to ignore. Humphrey stated “a moral and official duty” to say to President …
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By Jane Hicks |
11/18/21 12:34 PM
Stitt says that all babies are born female or male: Ignorance or propaganda?
The Oklahoma State Health Dept. has added a non-binary option to birth certificates, to which Governor Stitt replied on …
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By Jane Hicks |
11/11/21 09:55 AM
The American flag is itself. It’s not a decoration for a garment, a cushion, a napkin or other object. It’s not a weapon to be wielded against anyone, certainly not against duly …
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By Marion Hill |
11/4/21 05:52 PM
Imagine that Matt Swearengin and Kevin Farr were crossing a street one day, and Matt tripped in one of Durant’s widely-known potholes and fell down, hitting his head on the curb. And then …
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By Joe Littlejohn |
10/28/21 04:00 PM
Our Senators from Oklahoma keep spreading information that they must know is just wrong.
“Snowball” Jim Inhofe will still be maintaining that climate change is a hoax when all the …
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By Jane Hicks |
10/27/21 09:12 AM
To the great people and wonderful community of Durant Oklahoma:
I am so very happy to be sending this letter to your hometown, a community so full of loving families who support one another. I …
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10/21/21 10:53 AM
I attended Austin City Limits music festival this past weekend, and on Saturday, I had an urge I haven’t felt since I lived in Oklahoma. I’m from Bryan County¬—Calera to be …
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By Kameron Dunn |
10/20/21 10:48 AM
Most of the articles I have written about the Covid-19 pandemic in Bryan County have been dark and gloomy articles. And it’s not that I am a dark, gloomy person, a pessimist. I like to joke and …
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By Joe Littlejohn |
10/14/21 10:15 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, emailed a letter last week to President Joe Biden telling the nation’s executive that his actions are an embarrassment and destructive to the …
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By Justin Humphrey |
10/13/21 02:58 PM
We’re in a war, with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and private insurance companies versus a majority of the people of Oklahoma.
The prize being fought over is health care for low-income …
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By Marion Hill |
10/7/21 12:52 PM
President Jimmy Carter will celebrate his ninety-seventh birthday on October 1, 2021. What do you remember about President Jimmy Carter? High interest rates? Our Iran embassy staff taken captive, …
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By Henry Brigman |
9/30/21 12:03 PM
There is a familiar idiom, ”You can’t get blood from a turnip.” We interpret this saying to mean that you can’t get something from an object that inherently doesn’t …
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By Phyllis Rustin |
9/30/21 11:28 AM
Teachers need our help. If we fail them now, we fail our children. Apparently, judging by the performance of Governor Kevin Stitt’s administration so far, we need to abandon any hope for help …
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By Jane Hicks |
9/23/21 06:12 PM
How can we save ourselves when what we need to save ourselves from is ourselves? A very difficult question to answer.
That’s a huge problem. Many people of the United States are, indeed, …
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By Joe Littlejohn |
9/16/21 05:23 PM
The news coverage of Texas Governor Abbott signing the strict anti-abortion legislation, surrounded by his smiling, applauding colleagues is a classic picture of White Male Privilege. Before going …
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By Henry Brigman |
9/16/21 01:13 PM
One night in the late 1930s, when I was about four years old, my family and a friend drove from our home in Fort Worth to a stranger’s house in Dallas. For me, the events of the night were, …
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By Joe Littlejohn |
9/9/21 12:44 PM
If you feel a sharp pain in your back, side, lower abdomen, or groin, or have blood in your urine, you may have a kidney stone – a condition that is common and on the rise.
Left untreated, …
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9/2/21 03:14 PM
