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Rep. Sheila Dills, R-Tulsa, this week secured passage of a bill that will limit the biological sex designation on an Oklahoma birth certificate to male or female.
Read moreRecently, the Stillwater Board of Education announced it will not change course on its policy of allowing boys to use the girls’ bathrooms unless given “no choice” by state officials.
Read moreOn Wednesday, April 20, 2022, I personally delivered a book to each Oklahoma Legislator’s office called Shared Ideals in Public Schools: Enduring Values that Unite Parents and Educators. I outlined the book a year ago on a series of notecards in a meeting with my local legislators as a possible path to restore local control to public schools. Parents and local educators solve the toughest, most controversial of issues at the kid level every day, but kidlevel issues can rarely be fixed by faraway strangers from Capital City or Washington D.C. Central planners do not necessarily have bad intentions; they are just too far away from the local realities.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits (OKCNP) has announced the winners of its annual Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Awards. The awards ceremony and accompanying dinner were held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa on Saturday, April 9, 2022. The event was emceed by Dave Davis, co-anchor of 6 in the Morning on KOTV.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association (OBEA) recently honored University of Central Oklahoma professional media students at its annual student broadcast competition with 25 awards for student-produced multimedia journalism, audio/radio and video/television broadcasts.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) reports for the week ending April 9 that initial and continued claims decreased, while both four-week moving averages increased slightly.
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Preventive care is a key component of an effective health care regimen. Preventive care is not a onesize-fits-all approach, as various factors will influence what an individual should be doing at any given moment to ensure his or her overall health. Age, medical history and family history are three factors that could influence a preventive care regimen. Gender is another variable that affects preventive care, and women should know that screening guidelines for various conditions and diseases could be different for them than they are for men. Women’s personal medical histories could affect how often they should be screened for various conditions, but these screening recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force can serve as a guideline for women.
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