The dream of a new Rodeo/Agriculture Expo Center at Southeastern Oklahoma State University took another step closer to reality Monday afternoon with an official groundbreaking ceremony. The new facility will be constructed on First Street, near the SE softball complex and inside the Crooked Smile Trail.
To accomplish great things, one must be willing to perform great work over a great span of time. Rice University in Houston, which has come to exemplify such glory, has in its century of life become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The college started from nothing, except for the dream and generous donation of its founder. It was the job of its first president, Edgar Lovett, to make that dream a reality. With years of hard work and determination, Lovett built the institution and set the direction for greatness for its students and the college itself. Edgar Odell Lovett was born in 1871 in
WEST COLUMBIA — Back in February, during a break from a winter reading retreat at a beach on the Texas coast, I traveled inland to tour an old plantation. I knew that I would encounter uncomfortable history.
Area law enforcement, educators, licensed counselors and representatives from dozens of community groups came Wednesday to shine a light on the topic of mental illness and the needs in the community. This week, the Texoma Behavioral Health Leadership Team hosted the sixth annual behavioral health conference, a yearly update on the status of mental health resources across the region with speakers from different fields talking about the shared goal of providing for the region’s mental health needs.
The $41 billion state Permanent School Fund has lost $249.7 million tied to investments in Russian businesses, the fund’s executive administrator and chief investment officer told a legislative panel this week.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Businesses were closed, teachers absent and public transportation interrupted as Sri Lankans heeded a call for a general strike Thursday to pressure the president to step down over a growing economic and political crisis.
TEL AVIV, Israel – Sirens blared across Israel early Thursday as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honoring the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. People halted where they were walking, and drivers stopped their cars to get out of the vehicles as people bowed their heads in memory of the victims of the Nazi genocide.
BRUSSELS – Cutting off natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria cost Russian President Vladimir Putin very little – but it is adding stress on European countries wrestling over how to reduce energy imports that are feeding the Kremlin’s war chest and how to keep a united front on the war in Ukraine.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Thursday that he’s “taking a hard look” at canceling additional federal student loan debt and will reach a decision within a month. “I am considering dealing with some debt reduction,” Biden told reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.
BEIJING – Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China’s capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak. The city of 21 million has already ordered three rounds of mass testing this week, with the third coming Friday.