Earth Day 2024 was on Monday, April 22. If you are unfamiliar with the holiday have you been living under a rock? Earth Day is a day we spend honoring and celebrating this gorgeous green-blue dot that’s hurling around the sun that we call home because there is no where else with a protective atmosphere that can sustain life that we’ve been able to colonize, yet. Most jokes aside our planet truly is a remarkable creation when you consider every moment it took to get us to this point. Let’s explore a few.

On Tuesday, the members of the Oklahoma Legislature gathered in a joint session to observe Oklahoma National Guard Appreciation Day. Major General Thomas H.

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the tornado sirens have sounded, and the bugs have started wreaking havoc on my garden and fl ower beds. Spring is here and that means my household has lost all sense of normalcy.

What do kids think adults do all day? I had a conversation with my nephew a few days ago where he said he couldn't wait to be a grown up because he just wanted to play video games all day. And of course, when you're an adult that's what you get to do right? My nephew is seven, and he and I had a very in-depth conversation about all the things he thinks adults either get, or have to do.

As the clock ticks to pass a state budget and get bills to the governor's desk, curveballs are not uncommon at this point in the legislative session. One unexpected turn last week was the revival of Senate Bill 518, a carryover bill from the 2023 legislative session that proposes several hurdles to get an initiative petition on the ballot.

On Monday of last week, with the threat of severe weather, the Drumright Tornadoes played at 2:30 p.m. instead of 4:30 p.m., at home, against Depew. Depew had us 12-6. Depew is big, fast, and hits the ball hard.

NK Judging by Sunday's severe weather predictions from the Oklahoma TV weather fear mongers, I’d have thought a bread-and-toilet-paper-shelf-clearing weather event was coming to our part of the state, complete with papaya-sized hailstones falling out of the sky accompanied by a swarm of F-5 tornadoes . inging around radioactive tigers and a couple sharks.

On Tuesday, the governor signed Senate Bill 941 into law. For the past four years, we have been working on this piece of legislation during my tenure as Chairman of the Wildlife Committee.

When I was young, dumb, and broke I never considered the importance of hobbies — I didn’t have the patience or resources for them anyway. After several years I am no longer >™'8 I have grown a new found appreciation for the little things we do beyond our given responsibilities to keep ourselves from going insane.

It was abusy week at the Capitol as we concluded hearing House bills. We passed 422 House Bills and Joint Resolutions, just a small percentage of bills filed this year. These bills covered various topics, including banning ranked-choice voting, inflation relief, insurance and public safety.