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Even a “Yes” vote won’t solve budget problem
Countywide interest in this Tuesday’s tax vote sure is high judging by talk on the street and the standing room only crowd at last week’s county commissioners’ meeting. The tax vote comes at a dif...
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Sales tax policy big part of crisis
The proposed one–half cent jail sales tax appears to have pushed Sequoyah Countians to their tax breaking point. The tax rate would go from 9.417 percent to 9.917 percent, and some feel this rate...
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Oklahoma: Land of immigrants
During the 1880s, Heinrich Voth led the opening of a Mennonite mission to the Comanche people in Darlington and Cantonment. The Mennonites were among Germans from Russia, whose ancestors had moved...
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We must solve the jail problem
The single longest-running problem that has faced Sequoyah Countians has been the county jail. Off and on for 100 years we have suffered crisis after crisis over it, and now we confront yet anothe...
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Bring DiamondNet to rest of the county
The top story in the July 16 edition of Your TIMES was about the City of Sallisaw’s attempt to secure stimulus funding to expand its high-tech DiamondNet operation. When Sallisaw launched Diam...
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Enjoying benefits from the New Deal stimulus
While public works projects of this year’s federal stimulus program are still being planned or put into action, Oklahomans still enjoy the fruits of stimulus programs engineered by President Frank...
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Vote Yes for 911 — It’s not a tax!
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County voters have three items on the ballot for Tuesday, two taxes and 911. The two taxes are each for one-third of a half-cent (.166 percent) for the sheriff and the jail. The sheriff has hopes o...
Vote ‘Yes' on Liquor by the Drink
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On Tuesday Sequoyah County voters will once again vote to determine if we will allow liquor to be served by the drink. Voters have said “No” several times since the state first allowed counties to...
Autism deserves coverage
by Jeff Mayo, General Manager and Associate Publisher
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Viagra? Covered. Autism? Nope. Most insurance companies operating in Oklahoma cover Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs, but few cover autism. On Monday, Oklahoma House Democrats walked ...
A good decision
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The decision by Sequoyah County Commissioners last week to seek a special state audit of the county clerk’s office is a good one. Their request was prompted by a call from new county clerk Vicki Sa...
The Main Event begins Tuesday
by Jim Mayo
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Next Tuesday, Barack Obama will take office as the nation’s 44th president. It is rare that a new president comes into office with so many problems demanding his immediate attention. The economy ma...
Meth will be target of major program
by R. Darrell Weaver, Director
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"Oklahoma has a mortal enemy, a hometown terrorist who has the goal of stealing and destroying everything good we want for our great state. As the Chief Drug Enforcement Officer for the state of Ok...
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Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski, left, and Mike Wilder, Executive Director of the Kentucky State Medical Examiners office, right, answer questions during a news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at the Kentucky State Police Central Forensic Laboratory in Frankfort, Ky. The Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with 'fed' scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)AP - On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree, the word "fed" scrawled across his chest.


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A Continental Airlines airplane is refueled at its gate at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, March 29, 2009. REUTERS/Gary HershornAP - The government is imposing fines for the first time against airlines for stranding passengers on an airport tarmac, the Transportation Department said Tuesday.


Tue Nov 24 15:42:07 -0600 2009
AP - As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor — a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules — federal court papers show.
Tue Nov 24 20:24:04 -0600 2009