In one year, Tulsa will be in the national and international spotlight as the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre is commemorated. What will that spotlight find when focused on Tulsa? How do we want our city to be seen?

This scholarship is an awesome thing the Allen family has done. We hope to see more students realize the dream of a college education for many years to come.

Good for Drew Edmondson for taking a stand against Oklahoma's role as a prime breeding ground for fighting chickens.

Oklahomans also can call 211 to be connected with mental health resources, and those who need to talk can all 24-hour hotlines at (800) 273-TALK (8255) or (800) SUICIDE (784-2433).

Wouldn’t it be nice to appoint a group of people to decide whether you should receive a raise and have those folks come back with an annual bump of more than 35%?

Donations can be sent to Foster Feet at P.O. Box 262, Enid, OK 73702. For more information on Foster Feet, visit their Facebook page or call (580) 233-1214.

OBI provides more than 90% of the blood provided to patients in the state, requiring 1,200 donors each day to meet the demand.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has weathered many economy-related challenges during its 31 years in existence. The latest one, however, may prove too great to overcome and deal a potentially awful blow to Oklahoma City.

In Enid, NCBH can be reached at (580) 234-3791. For more information on IPS go to https://ipsworks.org.

This is good news for EPD. We like the idea of the department being able to host its own academies. We can’t wait to see this happen.

After years of delays, Oklahomans will be able to get their new, federally compliant REAL ID licenses starting in July.

Keeping the pool and splash pads closed during the summer is seen by many as harsh, but given the facts as they stand now, may be the best move to make. Safety needs to be a priority. But, the situation could change. We will all have to wait and see what happens.

Tulsan Joy Harjo completed a successful year as U.S. Poet Laureate connecting and promoting indigenous artists.

Mothers truly are special people. If your mother still is with you, and you can, give her an extra special hug today.

As we move forward to whatever the new normal is, one thing is plain. We must have a serious national plan for how we pay for that $3 trillion in stimulus funding.

Nurses are a critical part of our health care system, even in so-called normal times.

Enid Public Schools is rounding out its leadership team with three new appointments.

We understand the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission is in a tough spot given the surge in unemployment claims related to the COVID-19 closure of so many businesses.

We want to commend those people who stepped up and gave of themselves to help others.

It’s never been more important to be neighborly.

We know this plan is controversial. Many people think it’s coming too late, while others think it is too early to be reopening businesses.

A recent column by William McKenzie, former longtime reporter for The Dallas Morning News and now senior editorial adviser at the George W. Bush Institute, carried this headline: “COVID-19 Highlights the Need for a Free Press Around the World.” How true that is.

The Enid community lost one of its biggest supporters last week with the passing of businessman Joseph “Lew” Lewis Meibergen.

❝Home is not a safe place for everyone. For victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, shelter-in-place orders and self-isolation recommendations are probably making domestic violence, sexual assault and other forms of intimate partner violence more frequent, more dangerous, and more severe.❞ — Garfield County District Attorney Mike Fields

❝And Jesus came and said to them, ❛All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.❜❞ — Matthew 28, Revised Standard Version