Former State Senator and convicted felon Gene Stipe has been ordered to report to the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri for up to 30 days for a mental evaluation to determine Stipe’s competency. And Stipe’s attorney Clark Brewster was apparently fit to be tied in spite of his own request for a [...]
Sen. Jeff Rabon, D-Hugo, was cuffed, stuffed and booked into the Choctaw County jail Monday night on complaints of driving under the influence after a three-vehicle accident in Hugo, OK which resulted in one woman being taken to the hospital with reportedly minor injuries. Reportedly Rabon failed three field sobriety tests at the accident scene [...]
This week promises to be a big week for former state senator Gene Stipe who resigned in disgrace in conjunction with his guilty pleas in a campaign contribution scandal. On Thursday Stipe, who served over fifty years in the Oklahoma Legislature, will appear in the Eastern District of Oklahoma federal courthouse in Muskogee for a [...]
There really isn’t a town named ‘Speed Trap, Oklahoma’. That would be too obvious even for those that operate speed traps in many Oklahoma towns through which major U.S. and state highways pass. For many years speed traps existed all over Oklahoma. A few years ago a law was passed to put them out of business. That law has [...]
Today Governor Brad Henry signed into law House Bill 1804, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007. The Oklahoma Legislature sought, as best a state can, to do the job the federal government has thus far lacked the courage to do; enact real immigration reform. In signing this bill Governor Henry said “Illegal [...]
No one likes admitting they were wrong but eventually we all have to face the reality that we have made mistakes. Everyone except the Oklahoma Legislature, that is. Rather than acknowledging mistakes, learning from them and seeking to prevent them from occurring again our legislators would rather ignore them in hopes that no one will [...]
