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Editorials
  • Jobs Foundation leads effort to help firefighters

    April 15, 2012

  • America stands at the crossroads

    Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell took exception last week to President Barack Obama’s remarks regarding what the U.S. Supreme Court should and should not do regarding his signature accomplishment — passage of the Affordable Healthcare Act. 

    April 10, 2012

  • Local sales tax bid should not be OK'd

    In our conversations with representatives of Pontotoc County volunteer fire departments over the last few weeks we have gained an even greater respect for what they do. Pontotoc County volunteer firefighters are dedicated to their communities and earnest in their desire to serve and protect. 

    March 25, 2012

  • Is it really over over there?

    President Barack Obama declared the Iraq war ended Tuesday.

    December 14, 2011

  • Trump’s arrogance is staggering

    To call Donald Trump an egotist would be redundant. His latest declaration that if “the wrong candidate is nominated to run” for president, he will jump in the race himself is breathtaking in its arrogance.

     

    December 10, 2011

  • In the crosshairs of 'gotcha' journalism

    Among the blessings we associate with Thanksgiving of spending time with family, eating too much turkey, and preparing for the kick off of the Christmas selling season, we might add one more this year — a blessed couple of days off from the 2012 Presidential race. And if it’s blessed for us, think what it must mean for the candidates.

    November 19, 2011

  • America's inconsistent message

    It would seem even very red state Oklahoma has a lot in common with the rest of the nation: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare."

    November 9, 2011

  • Modern-day Tea Pot Dome

    It isn’t exactly a second Teapot Dome incident like the one that scandalized the Harding administration in 1922. In fact, it isn’t a teapot that is drawing the modern-day scrutiny of Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn at all, but a coffee pot – or at least a museum in Pennsylvania shaped like a coffee pot.

    November 2, 2011

  • City Councilors should meet with employees

    Ada city council’s recent letter to the city manager specifying goals for the upcoming year got more than a few tongues wagging around town. It also had the effect of setting many city employees’ nerves on edge.

    August 13, 2011

  • S&P’s rating a dose of much needed reality

    Financial self-help guru Dave Ramsey puts America’s national debt crisis in terms most of us can get our heads around. Very few people have any real clue what it means to say our federal government is $14.2 trillion in debt, except that it is a very large number.

    August 10, 2011