Tyson Foods recently announced it is shifting production from its Ponca City processed meat plant to three plants outside the state. Production will be moved to plants in Buffalo, N.Y., Cherokee, Iowa, and Houston. A total of 580 local workers will be cut because of the closure. The announcement comes on top of Conoco Phillips […]
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Office rotation
The Legislature is considering a joint resolution authored in the House by Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, that would limit the terms of lieutenant governor, state auditor and inspector, attorney general, treasurer, commissioner of labor and insurance and superintendent of public instruction. Those serving in those offices would be limited to two terms, or eight years. […]
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Mock the vote
In May 2008, Sen. John Ford, R-Bartlesville, authored a bill that would have required anyone who voted in Oklahoma have proper identification. Ford’s bill did not even require a photo ID ” a utility bill or check stub would have been sufficient for someone to vote. The bill fell one vote short of passage and […]
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Point: Great time for GOP
On Nov. 4, the Republican Party nationally didn’t fare very well, but Oklahoma Republicans had reason to celebrate. For the first time in state history, the GOP controls both chambers of the Legislature. Oklahoma voters gave House Republicans an additional four seats and control of the state Senate for the first time in state history. […]
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Twin City impressions
I was honored this year to serve the state of Oklahoma as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. I was doubly honored because I was the first national delegate elected in Oklahoma. This was my second presidential nominating convention. In 2004, I served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in New York […]