U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced a nationwide extension of another key flexibility for USDA’s child nutrition programs. This waiver allows local partners, who have been working overtime serving meals to kids during the health crisis, the ability to continue serving free meals to all children – regardless of where they live – for the remainder of the summer. This action is part of USDA’s ongoing commitment to making it as easy as possible for local program operators to get food to children impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

State Rep. Jim Grego, R-Wilburton, said recently he was in total dismay after learning of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department’s plan to start charging fees to enter state-owned parks, which traditionally have been free except for extra amenities.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not kept combines out of wheat fields for Oklahoma’s annual harvest.

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) recently spoke on the Senate floor about the Senate’s consideration of the Great American Outdoors Act, which seeks to address the purchase and maintenance issues with federal lands. But Lankford told his fellow senators that the bill lacks critical provisions that would help prevent significant amounts of debt and deficit spending.