Home health services merge

Jordan Health Services (“Jordan”), which provides home health services to patients throughout the state of Texas, and Healthcare Innovations Private Services (“HCIPS”), the largest provider of Medicaid home health services in the state of Oklahoma, announced today they have combined their organizations.

Together, the companies each day will fulfill the personal care, case management, skilled nursing, pediatric, and hospice needs of approximately 22,000 patients in Texas and Oklahoma through 61 locations across both states.
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Rep. Lankford’s government funding update

By Rep. James Lankford (R-Ok)

Thank you to the hundreds of people who have called and emailed my Oklahoma and Washington, DC offices this week to express their views on how to fund the federal government. While the House and Senate are clearly at an impasse on how to proceed, it is clear there are things Americans can agree upon.

There is bipartisan agreement in the House on things we can fund while we work on our differences with the President’s healthcare law. As of Thursday evening, the House has passed five “clean” spending bills in the past twenty-four hours to fund: the Department of Veterans Affairs and their important services, our national parks and monuments, the National Institutes of Health, the District of Columbia and the training programs for our Naitonal Gaurdsmen and women. Our veterans, like our active-duty military, deserve to have access to the services we promised them, regardless of conversations taking place in Washington. The Senate needs to act on these bills to get these services up and running.
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Shutdown blog day 4, sob stories to scare tactics

Update Add Day 4: Breitbart.com is providing a hilarious running account of crisis in government. Yes, the world may end at any moment, but you might as well go down smiling. Only media and politicians take themselves so insanely serious in breathtaking crisis.

Day 4, 11:25 – NBC News Credits Breitbart News’ ‘Echo Chamber’ with Helping GOP Hold Firm

Nothing is funnier than being accused by THE echo chamber of being part of an echo chamber. But that is what NBC News did today in a First Read piece that reeks of frustration over the fact that the mainstream media and NBC News now have competition for the Narrative and are being held accountable for their open- water carrying for Democrats and President Obama.

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Mullet Over #581

By James White

George Washington Carver (1864-1943) discovered more than 300 uses for the common peanut. The brilliant man also developed various commercial products made from soy beans and sweet potatoes. Contrary to common lore, Carver did not invent peanut butter. Various forms of peanut butter were produced and consumed by South America’s Incas several centuries before the famous Dr. Carver was born.

California officials are seriously considering legislation that would make digital electronic license plates available to registered drivers. Possible advantages/disadvantages being cogitated (clean word) include: (1) elimination of renewal stickers and (2) flashing lights that could alert all observers whenever a vehicle is uninsured or has been reported stolen.
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Jenks and Collinsville rank high

By David Arnett

According to a new study from NerdWallet, Jenks and Collinsville are the Tulsa area towns best for raising a family in Oklahoma, but neither made the top five.

Key questions included: 1) Does the town have good public schools 2) Can young families afford to live there, and 3) Is the town growing and prosperous.

School performances were measured with ratings from GreatSchools. Town affordability was measured from both median home values and ongoing monthly home costs, including mortgage payments, real estate taxes, insurance costs, utilities, fuel and other bills. Growth and prosperity was assessed from income and growth trends over the last decade.