Marty, Monsters & My Miracle Mets

Kelly Wray, Chickasha Express-Star

The mention of Marty Seymour no longer makes me curl into a ball, assume a fetal position, and cry for my mother.

I’ve slain that emotional dragon, thank you very much. The psychotherapy is working.

Crucial decisions ahead

Mike McCormick, Shawnee News-Star

Shawnee city staff and commissioners are facing some crucial decisions. Over the next few weeks, they must decide about furloughing some city employees, possibly closing city hall at least one day a week, and other measures to ensure the city remains solvent.

Going home for the holiday

Faith Wylie, Oologah Lake Leader

We gathered at home for Easter, like we have done so many times since 1959 when my family moved into our brand-new house in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

We awakened Easter morning to candy eggs near our pillows, just like when we were children. We searched for candy eggs throughout the house, looking high and low. Potato salad and ham were consumed in appropriate quantities.

Elected officials should suffer, too

Kim Poindexter, Tahlequah Daily Press

For anyone who's up to snuff on' current events, it's a real challenge to deny the hypocrisy running rampant at the Oklahoma statehouse.

This week, officials announced that Cherokee County, among others, will be losing a valuable asset with the closure of its Child Guidance Center. Furloughs are being taken left and right, and many of the same Oklahomans who last month were rallying for tax cuts are now realizing some cherished service or another their families depended on is being eliminated or slashed. About the only thing to be said in this regard: Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

If every belle gets her day, where is mine?

Shana Adkisson, Norman Transcript
Feb. 20, 2010

Ever get the feeling someone, or some-thing, is out to get you?
I have that feeling. And as a result I've officially taken Mother Nature off my Christmas card list. And if I ever see her face at the grocery store I will not be polite. Yes, if I ever meet Mother Nature shopping for frozen corn I'll give her the worst stink eye she's ever seen. Guaranteed.
It started at Christmas. I wrote about that a few months ago. Where I was trapped alone at home on Christmas Eve with a frozen pizza while my husband was stranded in a blizzard. I got over that pretty quickly because I have a birthday at the end of January. I figured since I endured such heartache at Christmas that surely my birthday would go off without a hitch.

It's decision time

Mike McCormick, Shawnee News-Star
Feb 28, 2010

THE ISSUE: A Bryan Street interchange at I-40
OUR OPINION: City commissioners should approve the resolution Monday Night

It’s now or never for an interchange on I-40 at Bryan Street. That is the decision awaiting Shawnee city commissioners Monday night when they consider a resolution reaffirming support for the feasibility study authorized nearly three years ago.

You can never have too much love...

Jeff Mullin, Enid News & Eagle
January 29, 2010

He was dying, that much was obvious.
His breathing was labored, his face drawn, his skin bearing the yellow stain of jaundice.
His liver had been gradually shutting down for months, the result of hepatitis C, hence the jaundice.
He had just been approved for the liver transplant list at an Oklahoma City hospital.

To impound or not to impound

David Gerard, Muskogee Phoenix
January 20, 2010

Driving an uninsured vehicle is illegal. Without insurance, a driver creates a greater financial risk to himself and other drivers.
But the state should see how the new Compulsory Insurance Verification System works before it begins impounding vehicles for failure to carry liability insurance.