OCPA on OSSAA Dictatorial Decree

By David Arnett

Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small yesterday criticized the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) for arbitrarily banning four teenagers from playing basketball for Glencoe High School. The four youth used the state’s open-transfer process to attend the Glencoe district in the 2025-2026 school year.

Glencoe is located in northern Payne County, Oklahoma. The population was 601 at the 2010 census, an increase of 3.1 percent from the figure of 583 in 2000.

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Drive EV Oklahoma Relaunches

By David Arnett

Analysis: The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) and the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG) announced today the relaunch of Drive EV Oklahoma, a statewide initiative to promote electric vehicle (EV) adoption that prioritizes cleaner air, better health, and lower transportation costs for Oklahomans. It does make us wonder how the two largest shadow government organizations in the state have directed taxpayer money to promote such a cause and why?

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New World Screwworm Danger

By David Arnett

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins Friday at the Texas State Capitol alongside Governor Greg Abbott and stakeholders from across the country announced the largest initiative yet in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) plan to combat the New World Screwworm (NWS) a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, causing severe injuries and often death. It primarily affects livestock but can also infest pets and, in rare cases, humans. This announcement builds upon USDA’s five-pronged plan issued in June to combat the northward spread of NWS from Mexico into the United States.

The agency asserted in a media release Friday, it is not only a threat to our ranching community — but it is a threat to our food supply and our national security.

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Hate the poor? Raise the Minimum!

By Jonathan Small

The gap between intentions and outcomes can be vast in politics, as the push to raise Oklahoma’s minimum wage demonstrates.

Proponents say they want to help struggling citizens at the bottom of the state’s economic ladder. But in practice, their wage-policy preference yanks that ladder out of the hands of those low-income workers, leaving them not only poor but also with far less opportunity for future advancement.

Why? Because the market still sets worker rates even when government planners pretend otherwise. If a minimum wage exceeds market value, it forces employers to simply reduce hiring, shift to automation, or move jobs to more business-friendly climates.

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Public School Parent Warning Part 2

By Deborah Campbell

Editor’s Note: This story has expanded from when we first published it in June of this year. Additional warnings have been included. Parental concerns have grown as the school systems in Oklahoma hide information and presume even more authority over the precious young lives in their part-time care. Leftists hate the sovereign family.

Parents, please proceed with caution when the Oklahoma K-12 schools reconvene for the 2025-2026 school year in August. In June 2025, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Instruction Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) completed the unlawful expansion of school-based services, into Medicaid healthcare clinics, for ALL students. Public School based primary healthcare is not education. This merging of public schools with healthcare circumvents parental supervision and potentially puts big pharma solutions on behavioral issues and alternative lifestyle choices in the hands of government bureaucrats with parents clueless.

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