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Superintendent: Bluejays and Blueberries

How about those Bluejays???  Congratulations to our football team for closing out the season in grand fashion; undefeated and clearly the best team in class…


The most unscrupulous lobbying technique

Last week I described the abuse by which various area government entities have been designing construction specifications so as to limit competition and award a…


Mark Sharpton: CEO? I think not!

CEO? I think not! Problems I see with a CEO/Manager type of County Government. It grows government and is cost more money. After reading a…





An example of legalized corruption

Almost one year ago, Senator Clark Jolley asked me to assist him in bringing an end to what appeared to be a practice of legalized…




Community Garden: Worthless bird talk

All the collars have been removed from the visiting and fugitive turkeys.  They have blended in well with the garden turkeys.  All of them seem…




Mark Sharpton: Giving Thanks

This week the United States is celebrating Thanksgiving. Today it seems to be about family, food, football and black Friday sales. The first two are…





The first real black Friday in Oklahoma

In past years I was the recipient of frustrated correspondence from the local constituency. Oklahoma residents were being denied access to Black Friday sale items…




It is time to modernize county government

Next month I will chair a legislative hearing convened to consider the training qualifications of county officials. The hearing was requested by State Representative Marty…