Attachment: The Oklahoma Broadband Office presents an all-day workshop, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 577, 1109 E. Sixth St.
The OBO said “Internet for All” will focus on access, adoption and use of high-speed Internet across the state. OBO Executive Director Mike Sanders will attend, along with representatives from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, OBO staff and tribal leaders and representatives.
“Many Oklahomans lack the access they need to affordable and reliable high-speed Internet service. The Internet has become a necessity for education, commerce, government and more” , Sanders said in a press release.
“We want to make sure all Oklahomans understand how leadership is approaching this as a state and what funding opportunities and programs are available to improve and expand Internet access for all.”
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On board: National school choice groups have voiced their approval of the education deal that Republican lawmakers and Gov. Kevin Stitt signed last week.
“This development is truly transformative for Oklahoma’s education landscape,” said Jennifer Carter, Oklahoma representative for Betsy DeVos’ American Federation for Children’s Network, shortly after the deal was announced.
The Oklahoma Public Affairs Council, one of the state’s oldest school choice/voucher advocates, and for which Jennifer Carter’s husband, Ray Carter, works, has also been generally supportive .
Over there: Oklahoma National Guard troops are among about 1,000 being deployed to Africa to serve through early next year, the NGO reports.
Task Force Tomahawk includes Soldiers from several units of the Infantry Brigade Combat Team, including two companies from a multi-state battalion that includes elements of the Nebraska and Indiana Army National Guard.
Prohibition of the holy book: The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation asked state Superintendent Ryan Walters to add the Bible to its list of books not suitable for children.
The foundation cites the Bible’s “pornographic view of sex and women, lasciviousness, depravity and sexual violence often ordered or supported by the biblical deity. These include sordid stories of victims forced to marry their rapists , graphic sexual depictions, and countless references to sperm, intercourse, menstruation, homosexuality, bestiality, adultery, and “whores.”
Eternal Tuck: A handful of Republican lawmakers, including new state GOP Chairman Nathan Dahm, have introduced a resolution defending former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson and demanding Oklahoma boycott Dominion’s polling team, which Oklahoma does not use it anyway.
Communications in which Carlson mocked former President Donald Trump and cast doubt on Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election came to light as a result of Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox stemming from the network’s coverage of the elections and their consequences.
Carlson was fired after Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to prevent the case from going to trial. variety reported last week that Carlson’s dumping was a “verbal” part of the settlement agreement that Dominion insisted on, but the csaid the company’s executive vice president Wednesday, that’s not true.
Other reports Let’s just say the final straw for Fox’s board was a text in which Carlson told a producer that three white men beating up “an antifa kid” is “not how white men fight.”
The same group also filed a resolution calling for the elimination of all diversity, equity and inclusion training in the state’s public schools and universities.
Bottom lines: Cherokee Nation broke ground on its $35 million Salina Medical Clinic. … Former US Ambassador Kelly Craft, wife of longtime Tulsa coal executive Joe Craft, was unsuccessful in her bid to win the Republican nomination for governor of Kentucky.
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