Commentary David Blatt
The past four years have put severe constraints on the state budget.
Many state agencies have absorbed funding cuts of more than 20 percent,
and most have been forced to cut staff while eliminating programs and
services.
Commentary State Rep. T.W. Shannon
Ninety percent of an iceberg is typically underwater. This fact makes icebergs extremely dangerous, because it takes a keen eye to determine if the ice floating on the surface is a small block that can be pushed aside or several million tons of ice that will sink your ship.
A substantial funding cut looms for a Cleveland County youth shelter.
News Carol Cole-Frowe
Proposed elimination of Cleveland County funding to the area’s emergency
youth shelter has the facility’s administration and supporters
scrambling to figure out how to keep it open and what other services
will have to be reduced.