Community Garden: Are you ready for change?
How do you like this weather? This is Oklahoma and you should be ready for a change next week. Hopefully you have turned your garden…
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Spiking the Electoral College with a free trip to St. Croix
Last week the Oklahoma Senate stunned many Oklahomans by approving a proposal to counteract part of the constitutional principle of states’ rights. When the founding…
Logan County District 2 Update: District 2 News
During the winter months we have been performing preliminary work toward repaving Midwest Blvd. between Forrest Hills and Charter Oak as weather and other critical…
Community Garden: Perfect time to hit the garden
It’s warm outside and it is a perfect time to go out and work in your garden.
The newest legislative transparency
You probably won’t see the following story reported anywhere else in the press, as capitol reporters have been busy reporting on the ongoing race for…
Chamber Chat: Banquet, dinners and blood drive
Hello! We hope you have been keeping warm this week. We’ve got a few things on our calendar this week: Oklahoma Blood Institute and Mercy…
Mark Sharpton: Winter work update
The Groundhog saw its shadow last Sunday. Supposedly that means more winter. Here at District 1 it seems like the movie, “Groundhog Day.”
Community Garden: Guthrie garden needs its own “rat”
The cold is here again and I hope you were able to turn your garden soil when the days were a little warmer.
Chamber Chat: Groundhog dinner, free income tax service
The United Way of Logan County Annual Campaign Celebration has been rescheduled from Tuesday, February 4 to Tuesday, February 11 at the Scottish Rite Temple…
Maybe the legislature should not consider policy bills next year
Last week I wrote that it should be the goal of the Legislature to reduce the number of laws. Over the years, the number of…
Update from Commissioner Mark Sharpton
When does a day’s work stretch into weeks or a month? In the winter…when we are trying to repair potholes in the winter. This previous month’s…
Community Garden: Plenty of items to be preparing for
The weather has been going up and down like a yo-yo. That means now is the time to take advantage of all these changes.
Chamber Chat: Rotary Club schedules annual Spaghetti Feed
Guthrie Rotary Club has scheduled its annual Spaghetti Feed for Thursday, March 13th from 11:30 to 1:30 then from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at…
The year of the Repealer
A little over a year ago, the new leadership of the House of Representatives created a new committee structure.
Legal requirements for enacting a burn ban
I have noticed this week that various counties are enacting a burn ban. I am hesitant to armchair quarterback what other counties do, but it…
Superintendent: Seasoned flyers know what is going on?
A number of years ago I was on a commercial airline flight preparing to land in Milwaukee. Almost on the ground, the plane suddenly accelerated…
Community Garden: Miniature cabbages!
I have been so sick the last two weeks that I have not been to the garden at all. I know that there is a…
Road repairs underway as winter weather permits
We have been hauling gravel in and out of the district barn. Gravel on roads gets thin after a few weather cycles and we are…
160 million from thin air
I have seen some rather shocking decision-making process abuses in my time as a legislator and my observations have easily confirmed the famous Calvin Coolidge…
Chamber Chat: Double Stop music show this weekend
Hello! We have a few things going on this weekend. Byron Berlines, Double Stop Music Show is this Saturday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. Get…