Opinion

Joe Biden surely knows that chaos at the border threatens his reelection. America’s future as a democracy can’t wait for the much-needed overhaul of the immigration system. November is approaching, and Biden must take radical steps to deal with the crisis.

Dear Annie: I recently had to go to a big-box store to purchase something that I couldn’t get online. The checkout lines on the grocery side of the store were six people deep, but if you looked beyond, to the other side of the store, there were no lines. I’ve been trying to teach family and friends this lesson -- to look beyond themselves -- for some time.

Will our Pioneer Woman Statue be next? Wake up Ponca City our Pioneer Woman Statue and Museum name is being stolen by outside commercial monied forces. We have been complacent, sharing our history as it should be, but suddenly we are being told we cannot use the Pioneer Woman name on our museum.

Dear Annie: I’m a 39-yearold mom of four. My husband recently passed away, in April of this year.

“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold,” wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for evidence that America’s political center has disintegrated, 2023 was a banner year, with a bumper crop of proof that a certain madness has enveloped both the right and the left, driving what remained of the center underground.

The latest Census Bureau data on population changes in America should have been a wake-up call to lawmakers in blue states and cities. The Census data provide even further evidence that “soak the rich” tax policies have incited a bluestate meltdown.

To Whom It May Concern: I am responding to the article in the Thursday, January 4, 2024, edition titled “Oklahoma task force recommends implementing per-mile road tax”. The proposal seems like a good potential solution for declining fuel tax revenue at first, but it raises more concerns than it seems to address, especially when considering second and third order effects.

Gov. Kevin Stitt has ignited a firestorm of controversy with a decision to opt out of a federal program designed to alleviate childhood hunger this summer.

Dear Annie: My wife and I have a close friend whom, in non-pandemic times, we invited over for dinner or cocktails at least once or twice a week. We’ve spent many holidays together over the last 10 or so years. We love her like a sister.

On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, President Joe Biden and the Democrats still operate as if this one terrible afternoon is the No.