In a media release today, Samaritan’s Purse thanks the community for, “the overwhelming generosity of the people of Tulsa that helped provide to children in need through Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts this season.”
Across the U.S., the Samaritan’s Purse project collected 10.5 million shoebox gifts in 2024. Combined with those collected from partnering countries in 2024, the ministry is now sending over 11.9 million shoebox gifts to children worldwide.
Republicans reset their party beginning at precinct meetings Tuesday and then at the County Convention. This year, some want to grow the party to support President Trump’s success in expanding the base. Others want to shrink the party to make it easier to control in their own image. The “expanding” folk welcome policy discussions, adherence to state rules, and conservative leadership. To make your voice heard, bring your voter registration card with state issued ID, and attend these short but important meetings organized by State House Districts within Tulsa County.
Americans by public vote and overwhelming Electoral College result, reestablished normal for the world in 2024 despite recurring voter fraud. The outcome was “too big to rig.” Moving forward; righteousness rules, normal returns, and demonstrable facts are confirmed. Of course there will be those that disagree, but some people can’t be fixed.
Meeting recently with Jason Collington, Executive Editor of The Tulsa World, for lunch and robust conversation, I mentioned the reset of normal and he immediately asked for my definition. This question came after he asserted that the daily newspaper is not a leftist publication – a point on which we disagree.
Updated: The Tulsa County Board of County Commissioners meeting today began with the swearing in of new Commissioner (District 2) Lonnie Sims and returning officials County Clerk Michael Wills, Court Clerk Donald Newberry and Sheriff Vic Regalado. It then proceeded to an impactful proclamation.
One of the lower-key victories of the 2024 Oklahoma legislative session was passage of Senate Bill 362, which stated that Oklahoma public-school teachers “shall be prohibited from using the three-cueing system model of teaching students to read” starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
Under the three-cueing method, students are encouraged to guess words based on associated pictures and context, and to memorize entire words, rather than learn to sound them out phonetically.
APMreports has noted “that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked” three-cueing, while ExcelinEd in Action noted the three-cueing system “can be boiled down to this: Teachers using this method instruct students to guess.”
