“ONE FOR THE ROAD” TRACES HOW OKLAHOMA MUSICIANS HELPED CREATE THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE MOTHER ROAD
TULSA, Ok. — As Route 66 celebrates its 100th anniversary, The Church Studio, located in Tulsa, the Capital of Route 66, has opened a new exhibit exploring the Oklahoma music and musicians that traveled along America’s most famous highway.
With this rule, USCIS can refer asylum applications to Immigration Judges without interviewing the alien
WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement this week after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a rule change designed to reduce the backlog in the asylum system.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins and the State of Georgia finalized a Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) agreement, which provides an opportunity for participating state-inspected meat processors to ship their products across state lines. Under the agreement, Georgia may inspect meat products produced in participating establishments for shipment throughout the United States.
“By entering into this agreement, Georgia’s family-owned meat processors will now have the ability to access the same domestic marketplace as everyone else,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins. “Our ranchers have had to deal with a consolidated processing industry that has 4 companies, including 2 foreign owned, dominating 85% of the market and today’s action takes a step toward leveling the playing field. In the Trump Administration we will always put our American farmers and ranchers first by working with our state partners to deliver results. I’m grateful to have an amazing partner in Commissioner Harper who has helped make this a reality.”
Blood donations have fallen to a four-year summer low, worsening this season’s emergency blood shortage. All blood types are needed, but the situation is especially dire for type O blood as the Red Cross is now limiting distributions of these blood products to hospitals. The supply of type O positive blood has now dropped below a one-day supply.
The Paradox of Silence: Hissom’s Teachers, Including Current Candidate for Oklahoma Superintendent Dr. Robert Franklin, Escaped Accountability
When federal investigators exposed the depravity of the Hissom Memorial Center in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, the public faced an unsettling truth.
In 1987, Hissom Memoral Center was legally condemned by U.S. District Judge James O. Ellison as a “human-development emergency.” the institution was found to have subjected vulnerable children with disabilities to relentless physical abuse, gross medical neglect and widespread chemical sedation of vulnerable children with disabilities.
Yet, an intriguing professional paradox arose from the landmark litigation. Despite the facility’s closure due to inhumane conditions, the teachers who worked there neither faced any judicial consequences nor experienced career repercussions. Instead, Hissom’s teachers cleanly transitioned into local public-school systems. Among them was Dr. Robert Franklin, who taught special education at Hissom for five years, from 1981 to 1986, before embarking on a respected, decades-long career in public school leadership. The key question is how the judicial system and the Oklahoma State Department of Education permitted these educators to keep their licenses and certifications and advance in their educational careers.
