The River Parks Authority will officially open today a brand-new playground located along the River Parks Trail at Riverside Drive and 17th Street. Designed to serve children of all ages and abilities, the new play space will be the largest playground amenity River Parks has ever offered to the community. River Parks is a collaborative independent bureaucracy funded by both the City of Tulsa and Tulsa County and one of four public park organizations within the county.
Analysis: We all see the same problem: endless money printing destroys purchasing power, debt-based systems eventually collapse, and you cannot print your way to prosperity. The disagreement has always been over the solution.
For 5,000 years, gold was the best money humanity ever had in the physical world. It was durable, divisible, and scarce. But even gold had practical limits. As global trade exploded and the pace of communication and innovation accelerated, physical gold simply could not keep up. Moving heavy bars across borders was too slow for the demands of an ever-increasing global economy. So, humanity built trust layers on top of it: vaults, custodians, paper IOUs, and bank promises. Those layers were a practical solution to scale commerce and match the speed of a rapidly expanding world.
The Oklahoma House sent House Bill 3240 to the Senate with a more than two-thirds vote. This bill would give public school students a designated time for voluntary prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts. The bill ensures parents must consent to their child’s participation, and that religious observances cannot be conducted in the presence or hearing of non-consenting students.
This thoughtfully designed, constitutional bill is sorely needed.
Nurses are some of the unsung heroes of our society, working long hours in hazardous conditions in order to make sure the public stays healthy. Despite the difficulties of the occupation, nurses are generally well-rewarded for their life-saving work. Nursing is one of the most lucrative careers, with a mean annual wage of more than $98,000 and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S.
WalletHub took stock of the nursing industry to help nurses, particularly new graduates, pick the best place to live comparing the 50 states across 20 key metrics ranging from job openings for nurses per capita and average salaries to mandatory overtime restrictions and the quality of nursing homes.
Governor Stitt signed Senate Bill 1778 into law Tuesday morning at John Rex Charter Elementary. I’m sure you’ve seen the photos and videos of the governor surrounded by the cutest group of young Oklahomans, flanked by the legislative leaders who spent two sessions earning this moment — studying the research, producing interim studies, asking the right questions, and in some cases pursuing their own advanced degrees to understand what Oklahoma’s literacy crisis actually requires. Now the real work begins, and it belongs to the two statewide leaders Governor Stitt has appointed to carry it: Secretary of Education Dan Hamlin and State Superintendent Lindel Fields.
The bill is the most substantive rewrite of Oklahoma’s early literacy statute in a generation, and necessarily so. Nearly three in four Oklahoma third graders are not reading proficiently (NCES, 2024). The statute needed to match the scale of that problem.
