Oklahoma cold weather

I have to say, it’s been a few years since we have seen such a widespread and long-lasting cold spell in the Oklahoma/Arkansas area. We might have a night or two when the temperature dips into the teens every year, but we have been in a deep freeze since Christmas and it is only going [...]

Tsunami in the Samoas

It sounds like deja vu, but a quake deep under the South Pacific Ocean has triggered a tsunami that has swept across the Samoas. Early reports have the dead at 99 and dozens of people are missing. The quake registered at a magnitude of between 8.0 and 8.3 and the resulting waves were anywhere from [...]

Make no mistake, we have legitimate concerns about health care reform

As some of you may know, I am apt to listen to NPR’s Morning Edition on the way to work every morning. I have found them to lean a bit left, but overall to be fairly even and balanced in what they report and how they report it. I have to say however, I was [...]

Sequoyah County Jail budget woes continue

If there are any other Sequoyah County residents reading this, let me ask you a question. Does it seem that our new jail has been in budget troubles since before it was even built? I have to say, it seems that way to me. There seems to be at least one news story every week [...]

Monetary damages for poultry lawsuit thrown out

For those of you who are familiar this story, (you should be if you live in the Oklahoma/Arkansas border area) let me ask this question. Does it seem that the lawsuit that seeks monetary damages for pollution to the Illinois River watershed has been going on forever? Stop and think about it for a moment. [...]

Car bomb wounds Arkansas doctor

During the past several years, it has become commonplace to hear of car bombings in Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world, but this news hits a little closer to home.
In West Memphis, AR yesterday, a car bomb exploded outside the home of Dr. Trent P. Pierce, who heads the panel overseeing doctors [...]

Mike Huckabee–Doing The Right Thing

I have refrained from writing an article about Mike Huckabee and the release of his new book, “Do The Right Thing”, simply because I have yet to read the book. From the excerpts I have read, it appears Huckabee was honest in telling us about his campaign and how it all went down, from taking [...]

Rescue work begins in Gavleston and Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike

Here in Oklahoma, we received a lot of wind and rain as the remnants of Hurricane Ike, now a tropical depression, moved across our area around 1:30 this morning. My brother has reported three downed trees where he lives near our parents, north of Muldrow, Oklahoma. I have found no damage from the storm, but [...]

Damage from Hurricane Ike

Some photos are starting to surface that show some of the damage that has been done in the Galveston/Houston, Texas area and while I am sure the photos do not do it justice, it is clear the damage is major. As you can see from the photo on the left, the JP Morgan Chase building [...]

Houston devastated by Hurricane Ike

According to the Associated Press, Hurricane Ike, nearly as big as the State of Texas itself, has devastated the Galveston/Houston, Texas area. The storm surge wasn’t as high as expected, with reports coming in of 13 feet, but hurricane force winds pounded the area hours before the eye of the storm actually made landfall.
There are [...]

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