A moving 'memorial day'

Received this e-mail from Jennifer Gilliland at OPA today about a story written by one of Oklahoma's finest professors, who not only has been my mentor but also my friend:

Dr. Terry Clark recently accompanied the Oklahoma Honor Flight when it took 99 World War II veterans to visit the WWII monument in Washington, DC.

Terrill determined to prevent public access

Rep. Randy Terrill on Tuesday added language preventing public access to government workers' birth dates and employee identification numbers to the conference committee version of the Omnibus Corrections bill.


For details: http://foioklahoma.blogspot.com/2010/05/rep-randy-terrill-tries-again-to-stop.html

DOB bill as persistent as Phoenix

It looks like the effort to make public employee DOBs confidential has been resurrected, this time as part of the DPS dash cam bill, HB 3382.

Tulsa World story:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspxsubjectid=12&articleid=20100520_16_A11_OKLAHO230732

DataWatch blog http://bit.ly/biiEZS

Benefit dinner for fire chief and family

Please join the Deer Creek Fire Department in helping Chief Benito Gonzales, who recently lost his wife, Maria, to cancer. Proceeds will help with medical bills and funeral expenses.

Benefit Lunch for the family of Maria Gonzales. Sunday, May 23rd, Noon--?, at Christ's Church (former Mennonite Church Building), Deer Creek.

There will also be a silent auction of many donated items with all money going to the Gonzales family as well.

Sponsored by the Deer Creek Fire Dept

Don't like Oklahoma's new license plate? You may be all alone

The Automobile License Plate Collectors Association (ALPCA) has honored the new Oklahoma license plate with the Best Plate Award for new plates first issued in 2009. This is the third time Oklahoma has won this award since its inception in 1970, which means the state joins only three other states to have won three times.

Oklahoman: traffic tickets just part of getting an education

OU and OSU officials are defying common sense by claiming that parking tickets issued to students are confidential educational records, The Oklahoman said in an editorial Saturday.

"The federal law was designed to protect students’ academic records, not such things as tickets issued to students for parking in the faculty lot," the newspaper said.

For background and a link to the editorial, read: http://foioklahoma.blogspot.com/2010/05/newspaper-criticizes-ou-osu-for-keeping.html

'Stiff opposition' kills autopsy bill

State legislators won't be voting again this session on a bill that would have restricted access to portions of homicide autopsy reports.

Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Tuttle, pulled HB 3155 because of stiff opposition on the House floor, The Oklahoman reported today.

For background and the story link, read: http://foioklahoma.blogspot.com/2010/05/legislator-withdraws-bill-restricting.html

Thank you to Mark Thomas for successfully fighting this bill.

Let the summer games begin

Graduation is over. Summer vacation has begun. Maybe I can get back to the blog now. I’m so far behind on posting my Bible readings, I’m not even going to try.


What will the summer hold? Who knows. For now, I have three trips to Boiling Springs Christian Service Camp planned.