Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks

Stop D.C.’s Push to One-Size Agreements

For nearly two decades, I have dedicated my career to caring for Oklahoma’s seniors and supporting the professionals who make their long-term care possible. As co-owner of Bison Health Management, Executive Director of West Wind Assisted Living, and owner and COO of Refuge Care, I see firsthand the challenges of building strong teams and running businesses in a heavily regulated field. Add to that my experience as a small business owner and former Oklahoma state senator, and I have learned one thing above all: when government oversteps, workers and businesses both suffer.

That’s why I am deeply concerned about the so-called Faster Labor Contracts Act recently introduced in Washington. On its face, the bill claims to streamline negotiations between employers and newly certified unions. In reality, it hands unprecedented power to government bureaucrats at the expense of Oklahoma workers and businesses.

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Mazzei Minute: OK Newspapers

I guess it’s time to dump The Oklahoman Newspaper.  I have been reading it and the local Tulsa paper for three decades to stay abreast of news across the state.  The Oklahoman, under the ownership of the Gaylord family, used to be a reliable conservative-leaning newspaper.  Now part of the USA Today network, The Oklahoman has gone the way of radical left wokeism.

The day after 90,000 people packed a stadium to honor the life and Christian message of martyr Charlie Kirk, The Oklahoman headline read – “Kirk was a top conservative provocateur.”  How disappointing and disgusting.  Not once does the journalist, Zac Anderson, address the vile hatred and intolerance of Charlie’s murderer.  Rather, he paints Charlie’s ideas and comments as over-the-line, contentious dialogue.  

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Who Cares for Jimmy Kimmel?

Editorial: I wish I could say that Jimmy Kimmel was a morally criminal, emotionally unstable, and cognitively incapable human, but I only know what little I have seen of him on television. I can assume his core from his minion-like goosestepping for Leftists, but my personal exposure has been limited from the analysis in 2017 that Jimmy Kimmel was inaccurate, not funny, and boring.

Fortunately, his show will not be carried, according to media reports, by Tulsa’s KTUL, a local ABC affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station is admired for it’s accurate investigative local news coverage to which we can now add corporate good character and public courage.

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Stovall: Said & Done

I have long believed and often said that we live in a world in which when it’s all said and done, there’s too much said and not nearly enough done. Many people live in unreality based on what they intend to do, what they want to do, or said they were going to do. These things do not matter unless something is eventually done.

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A Word on the 4th Estate (News Media)

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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