The Oklahoma State Treasurer’s Office released its September 2026 Investment Report, highlighting the state’s investment portfolio totaled approximately $17.6 billion, with a reported yield of 3.86% up from 3.74% one year earlier. The portfolio’s weighted average maturity was 940 days. Assets under management were down approximately $266 million compared with September 2025.
A pastor’s role is to equip their congregants with biblical truth, which includes connecting that biblical truth to governance and today’s public policy issues.
During the founding era, the American pulpit regularly shaped the cultural and philosophical mindset by teaching their congregations on unalienable rights, human dignity, and the rule of law. From the American Revolution to the end of slavery to the civil rights movement, it was religious leaders that understood that spiritual stewardship required defending not just freedom and justice in the public square, but also biblical values and truth. The cultural narratives demanding that Christianity stay out of public life has largely silenced the American pulpits in recent generations. However, there are still pastors in the pulpit today who are exercising their citizenship and stewardship to address the moral issues their congregants and everyday people are facing as the 2026 election season is underway.
On day one, the second Trump Administration began dismantling the failed Biden-era anti-energy policies, cutting red tape, and ending the Democrats’ Green New Scam agenda. Today, under President Trump’s leadership, America is producing record amounts of oil and natural gas while expanding domestic refining capacity and strengthening America’s energy security.
Friday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NASA that will strengthen USDA’s data quality and help ensure that American farmers and ranchers benefit from and have access to cutting-edge technologies.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Jon Echols spent Thursday night’s attorney general debate pressing one argument against Democrat Nick Coffey: A career federal prosecutor isn’t ready to run an office that works mostly in state law.
“If you check OSCN, he has been in four total state law cases. He knows nothing about the state system, just nothing,” the Republican nominee said. “He was a line-level prosecutor. He was not a manager.”
