Opinion

As if our state hasn’t been through enough this past year, historic winter weather threw another wrench in the works, closing schools and government agencies statewide along with businesses. On Wednesday, the governor requested a disaster declaration for all 77 counties from the federal government for the winter storms that began Feb. 8. The president approved the declaration the same day, allowing cities, counties and tribes to be reimbursed for eligible emergency protective expenses relating to mass care and sheltering operations through FEMA’s public assistance program. It will also provide federal resources to help state and local governments with their continued disaster response.

The following article was written by CZARINA C. CONLAN in 1926. She was a member of the Oklahoma Historical Society and a contributing writer to the Chronicles of Oklahoma. I found this article very interesting and thought you might also like it. It is interesting to see how our area was viewed back in the 1920’s.

The House and Senate recently passed long overdue budget resolutions for the fiscal year that is already well underway. However, more unfortunate than the late delivery of these budgets is the fact that both completely skipped consideration in the committees of jurisdiction, and both were written by Democratic leaders who are intent on pushing through their partisan priorities and going it alone on additional coronavirus relief. In fact, members of the committees had not even convened yet this Congress when Democratic leaders rushed their resolutions to the floor of both chambers.