CARPE DA CARP Thirty years ago more or less Asian carp, aka silver or grass carp, were introduced into the United States. Mostly, the Chinese-bred fish were brought in to eat the grass and algae...
My Two Scents Worth The wisdom of Soloman. That’s what Sallisaw city commissioners will need to sort out figures and facts of the Big Sallisaw Creek watershed water project. In some respects it is, in reality, the Br...
My Two Scents Worth Kristin Jones is a 48-year-old municipal art activist, whatever that is. She told the New Yorker magazine a couple of months ago that, “ ‘No’ is an inspiration.” Assuming her epigram holds true, t...
My Two Scents Worth While recent ambient temperatures have been no indication, it is likely spring is on its way to Sequoyah County. The days are getting longer, the birds are singing more and the roofs of our homes ...
My Two Scents Worth When was the last time you called a big U.S. corporation, and right off the bat, got to talk to a real, live person? I mean, a real, live person! Well, it has been a long time for me, too, and I...
My Two Scents Worth It took me a while but, to corrupt words of Larry the Cable Guy, “I got ’er done!” Last Friday night, I was inducted into the Half Century Club of the Oklahoma Press Association. The honor was in ...
My Two Scents Worth Just about the time some of us Democrats began to think President Obama had brought a knife to the D.C. Gun Fight, he proved us wrong. He had a great week last week and he proved he can be forcefu...
It was Christmas Eve, so Gracie was feeling benevolent. She fed me one of the few remaining tomatoes from our eight-vine garden. I had picked the last of them in early October and she has been nurt...
How many stars are drifting around our little earth? I don’t know, but I’d guess the total would approach the number of Sequoyah County school-age kids who begin adulthood with a good educational s...
NOTE: Sallisaw historian Earl Strebeck was digging around in old Sallisaw newspaper files some time back. He came upon a very interesting article in the “Cherokee Republican,” a Sallisaw newsp...
It has been nearly a week since Santa Claus made his rounds ’round the world and, if you got a lump of coal or a bundle of switches…well, it is your own fault. This is a good time to report on a c...
Since Christmas is nigh and the house lights haven’t dimmed, it is safe to assume that power house operators all up and down the Arkansas River, the GRDA and so-on have been alerted to carefully mo...
Last October, or maybe September, I mentioned the small Colorado town of Olathe. Idly, I wondered—because of the many, many fields ’round about the village—if the town could be the birthplace of th...