BY NYLA ALI KHAN We inhabit a world that has been sinking further into the morass of political unaccountability and cultural repression after the gut-wrenching events of Sept. 11, 2001. We witnessed the fizzling out of the fragile Peace Pact in Palestine in 2003. We witnessed the reduction of Afghanistan in Southwest Asia to a…
BY BOB BEARDEN Social Security and Medicare are socialistic programs that benefit our citizens as they were intended. President Trump has released his 2020 proposed budget and it is in the trillions. It includes drastic cuts to Medicaid and Medicare [over a 10-year period], which would directly affect most of the people who voted him…
BY NYLA ALI KHAN The road to Kabul from India and Pakistan runs through Kashmir, my homeland. Central and Southern Kashmir shares borders with India, Pakistan, and China. Pakistan-administered Northwest Kashmir shares a border with Afghanistan and China. China administers the Northeast Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram tract in the northeast. Various territorial disputes persist. Thus,…
BY STEVE JARMAN I am enraged. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives passed HB 2597, the permit-less gun bill. Here in Pauls Valley and the Garvin County area, my family’s name has been synonymous for three things: hunting, fishing and law enforcement. There are three generations of us, now, that grew up on the Washita…
