Editorials

Bullying at Prague schools is decreasing, an education consultant told state lawmakers today.

Shawn Mills runs school anti-bullying and mediation programs as part of the Prague and Drug Free Schools and Communities Grant awarded to the Lincoln County Health Department and the Prague Turning Point Coalition by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Mills and Jennifer Nunn, a representative with the Lincoln County Health Department met with state Reps. Danny Morg

This is a good Gazette article that highlights two bills by Minority Leader Morgan that has and seeks to improve highway safety and reduce accidents and deaths due to distracted driving.

Behind closed doors, many Oklahomans struggle with a form of obsessive – compulsive disorder known as “hoarding”, which is marked by a need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous or unsanitary. Those with this condition often live in homes in which countertops, tables, stairways and essentially every free space is stacked with things, with only narrow pathways leading from room to room. This inability to discard useless items has had a crippling effect on the live

I am very relieved to hear that after many months of reduced services, the six nutrition center sites in my district will resume their 5-day serving schedule for our senior citizens.

Studies have shown that drivers who talk on cell phones are four times more likely to be in a crash and drive just as erratically as people with an 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level. Considering the fact that texting is 23 times riskier than talking on a cell phone while driving, drivers are taking an enormous gamble by being on the road when their eyes aren’t.

Legislation signed by Governor Brad Henry today would allow women to use handicapped parking spaces in the final months of pregnancy if a physician deems it necessary.