Historic Federal Rural Health

By Staff Report

Washington, D.C. – Monday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now accepting applications from all states looking to take advantage of the Rural Health Transformation Program. This unprecedented investment is designed to empower rural states like Oklahoma to strengthen health care infrastructure and improve patient access to care. The program, authorized under the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on July 4th, 2025.

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A Word on the 4th Estate (News Media)

By Loren Cosby

Just what the world has been clamoring for, my uber-lengthy take on the state of the Fourth Estate!

I was in local broadcast journalism 35 years. Started reading newspapers earlier, before the age of 10 because I threw them – morning and afternoon for a decade. Those are my bonafides, but one opinion is no more important than any other.

Loren Cosby, retired (at the moment) and active in Tulsa.
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Court Allows Planned Parenthood Cut

By David Arnett

Yesterday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that the federal government can enforce the portion of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that cuts Medicaid funding to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood while the legal case continues. The decision allows the government to bar tax-exempt organizations that perform abortions and had received more than $800,000 in reimbursements in 2023 from receiving further Medicaid funds. The ruling removes a lower court’s preliminary injunction from July 2025 that had blocked the provision and was keeping the funding stream in place.

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Remembering 9/11

By David Arnett

As evil tried to terrorize, America overcame and responded. To be a free people is to understand that evil is active in promoting fear. It’s minions hate freedom. To overcome evil, America must never allow evil to silence or to stop what our Declaration of Independence declares:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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