The Edmond Sun

Our View

Our View
  • Our View: Sustainment center good news for Tinker

    The Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base will now be a command site for a new Air Force sustainment and logistics center. Other changes include adding a three-star general that oversees operations at Tinker and two other Air Force bases.

    November 18, 2011

  • Our View: DHS needs an overhaul

    A recent conviction of an Edmond foster mother has added fuel to the angry fire of scorn heaped at Oklahoma’s child welfare system. The system has been rocked by multiple recent failures ending in the loss of very young, innocent lives entrusted to either the state’s care or supervision.
    In the case of Amy L. Holder, she was convicted of felony child abuse and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine plus a $10,000 assessment to the victim’s compensation fund with no jail time in the death of 2-year-old Naomi Whitecrow. Family members of the victim seethed with anger at how the system failed their young relative.

    November 12, 2011

  • Peters exemplifies service

    This Friday is special for more than just a national commemoration of Veterans Day. It also will mark the induction of Edmond resident Oren Lee Peters and eight other military veterans into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. The annual banquet will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Oklahoma Christian University. The ceremony also will posthumously honor 14 Comanche code talkers who made pivotal contributions to encoding communications during World War II.

    November 7, 2011

  • OUR VIEW: Brain gain plan needs to start earlier

    Gov. Mary Fallin came to the University of Central Oklahoma campus along with State Superintendent Janet Barresi in September and touted her new “brain gain” initiative. The goal of the new program is to increase the 30,500 college degrees conferred annually now by 67 percent to 50,900 degrees annually by the year 2023.

    October 28, 2011

  • Our View: Time to look at what’s next

    With voter confidence strongly behind city leaders, the Public Safety Center project can now move to the planning stage.

    October 15, 2011

  • Our View: Thank you to our mayor

    Mayor Patrice Douglas is about to embark on the next phase of her political career with a gubernatorial appointment to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

    October 7, 2011

  • We say yes, yes on PSC vote

    Edmond voters will be asked Oct. 11 to consider a $25 million capital improvement project to construct a new Public Safety Center in downtown Edmond. The 75,000-square-foot project will house the Edmond Police Department, the Emergency Management Department and the 911 Communications Department.

    September 30, 2011

  • Our View: Kuhlman on right track

    Edmond Board of Education member Lee Ann Kuhlman recently proposed that the school district explore drilling its own water wells in an effort to cut back on irrigation costs for its properties.

    August 5, 2011

  • Choose a plan for debt relief

    As the nation two-steps its way toward defaulting on its debts, and thus endangering its AAA-credit rating for the first time in our 235-year history, one group in Congress has actually done its homework.

    July 29, 2011

  • Fallin may strike gold

    Gov. Mary Fallin recently told a sold-out audience at the Tulsa Metro Chamber that Oklahoma must find “exotic industries” in order to expand the job market.

    July 22, 2011