Issue worth revisiting

By Steve Gust

Some of the things making news lately:

I liked The Oklahoman article last week about the state “revisiting” the outrageous utilty charges for the arctic blast of 2021.

Steve Gust

I’ve reprinted some of that article on page 17, If you’ll recall, we’re now on the hook for 28 years of payments over the massive rates charged in 2021 to keep people from freezing.

I still think it’s outrageous have to pay so much for a few days of heat.

I believe it’s nothing but price gouging. So yes. Lets keep revisiting that issue as much as possible. Maybe our new Attorney General and Gov. Stitt can keep weighing in on it.

——I hope everyone gets a chance to look below at the editorial cartoon.

It’s truly stunning how many things the mainstream media gets wrong.

And I don’t remember any of the network anchors, such as Nora O’Donnell, coming on the air and apologizing for getting so much wrong.

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Do you get a lot of requests in the mail to help non-profits?

I know that I do.

At times I think I’m the Steve Gust Foundation, with so many pieces of mail.

Some of them I do help, which undoubtedly gets my name and address on other mailing lists. But that’s OK.

I get a lot of requests to help people at Indian Reservations.

I know that our government funds them, but apparently not enough at some reservations.

One reservation said, about a third of the homes there did not have access to electricity.

That’s just incredible and sad.

One of the reservations in the Dakotas had serious trouble with getting food during a blizzard this year.

I hope, and pray, the situations improve at reservations. If we can send $130 billion to Ukraine for weapons, maybe we can feed people at home.

(Steve Gust, Life & Leisure editor, may be reached for comment at news@edmondpaper.com.