Nailing Normal and New Narratives

By David Arnett

Americans by public vote and overwhelming Electoral College result, reestablished normal for the world in 2024 despite recurring voter fraud. The outcome was “too big to rig.” Moving forward; righteousness rules, normal returns, and demonstrable facts are confirmed. Of course there will be those that disagree, but some people can’t be fixed.

Meeting recently with Jason Collington, Executive Editor of The Tulsa World, for lunch and robust conversation, I mentioned the reset of normal and he immediately asked for my definition. This question came after he asserted that the daily newspaper is not a leftist publication – a point on which we disagree.

Helicopter View of Downtown Tulsa
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Tulsa County BOCC Begins 2025

By David Arnett

Updated: The Tulsa County Board of County Commissioners meeting today began with the swearing in of new Commissioner (District 2) Lonnie Sims and returning officials County Clerk Michael Wills, Court Clerk Donald Newberry and Sheriff Vic Regalado. It then proceeded to an impactful proclamation.

County Commissioners Stan Sallee, Lonnie Sims, and Kelly Dunkerley
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Humanity’s First Mission To A Star

By David Arnett

While most were celebrating the holidays, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface – in its closest-ever approach on Christmas Eve. Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone received late on Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.

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OKLAHOMA: No. 11 U-Haul Growth State

By David Arnett

The Sooner State in 2024 rose 30 spots from its 2023 ranking, according to U-Haul® Growth Index data analyzing one-way customer transactions during the past year. It was the most gained by any state. Prior to 2024, the last time Oklahoma was a net-gain state (with more arrivals than departures) was 2020.

In a release today, the data shows U-Haul customers coming to Oklahoma accounted for 50.4% of all one-way traffic in and out of the state (49.6% departures) last year. Looking at year-over-year changes, U-Haul arrivals into Oklahoma rose 2% while departures fell 2% in 2024.

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Bad Instruction Prompts Lawsuit

By Jonathan Small

One of the lower-key victories of the 2024 Oklahoma legislative session was passage of Senate Bill 362, which stated that Oklahoma public-school teachers “shall be prohibited from using the three-cueing system model of teaching students to read” starting in the 2025-2026 school year.

Under the three-cueing method, students are encouraged to guess words based on associated pictures and context, and to memorize entire words, rather than learn to sound them out phonetically.

APMreports has noted “that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked” three-cueing, while ExcelinEd in Action noted the three-cueing system “can be boiled down to this: Teachers using this method instruct students to guess.”

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