News Stories
Pauls Valley Daily Democrat - Barry Porterfield
A serious discussion on some issues of national interest took center stage during a U.S. congressman’s visit to Pauls Valley recently.
Comments from Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, were direct but still provided a lighter, more non-partisan flavor during the town hall update Thursday afternoon.
Meeting at the offices of the local chamber of commerce, Cole addressed a variety of issues with the handful of residents coming to the informal gathering.
The Ada News - Eric Swanson
A combination of prosperity and strategic planning allowed the Chickasaw Nation to support more than 200 programs serving tribal members this year, Chickasaw Gov. Bill Anoatubby said Saturday.
“The Nation is doing very well, and we have a lot to be thankful for,” he said.
He said officials are always reviewing the tribe’s mission and looking for ways to improve operations.
The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel
Rep. Tom Cole, the Moore Republican who helps set U.S. military spending, says there’s no way of knowing how much it will cost to destroy the Islamic State and that money isn’t the primary concern now.
“I think you have to decide that this isn’t a matter of dollars and cents, it’s a matter of how great the risk is,” Cole said in an interview.
“And look, these people are busy establishing a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East. This is like watching al Qaeda working with the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1990s.”
The Oklahoman - Brian Johnson
Tiffany Postoak has the heart, desire and passion to help foster children, particularly those within her own tribe of the Chickasaw Nation.
The East Central University legal studies and political science major from Tupelo High School, a resident of Allen, traveled to Washington, D.C., last month as a National Child Awareness Month Ambassador.
Norman Transcript - Sarah Kirby
Boeing will bring approximately 900 new jobs to Oklahoma City as part of ongoing plan to remain competitive in the aerospace industry.
On Wednesday, the company formally announced the decision to shift its defense- and support-related positions away from Washington state to Oklahoma City and St. Louis, as well as Jacksonville, Fla., and Patuxent River, Md.
The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel
Sen. Jim Inhofe, of Tulsa, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the air strikes were a good first step but inadequate beside the need for an overall strategy for Iraq, Syria and the broader Middle East.
“While these air strikes in Syria can begin to degrade ISIL capabilities, they certainly won’t defeat or destroy the terrorist army, just as we have seen in Iraq,” Inhofe said, using an acronym for the Islamic State militant group.
Roll Call - Meredith Drake
This is a state that knows what it’s like to recover from a disaster.
From the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, to the destruction wreaked by two of the largest tornadoes ever recorded tearing through its suburbs, there has been a thread running through the tragedies: Oklahomans pull together.
Native American Times
NEW YORK – On Sunday, September 21, 2014, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, the National Congress of American Indians, United Methodist Women, Intersections International, Gray Panthers, and the Indian Law Resource Center will present a reading of Sliver of a Full Moon, a powerful play by Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle.
Washington Post - Paul Kane
Before the U.S. military attacked Saddam Hussein’s forces in 1991, Congress spent months considering its approval of the war. Twelve years later, another attack on Iraq came after three weeks of debate and intensive negotiations.
But this week, the House and Senate each took only a few hours to sign off on President Obama’s plan to once again deploy the military in the Middle East, approving it as part of a broader budget bill before bounding out of town for a two-month recess and hitting the midterm campaign trail.
The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel
WASHINGTON — Members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, including key players on committees that oversee military affairs, reacted Wednesday night to President Barack Obama’s address to the nation about U.S. actions against the Middle Eastern terrorist group Islamic State.