By Sheridan on 11/15/2007 4:37 PM

News flash. Yesterday was windy. Those of you with hair in your eyes probably know that. In fact the highest wind gust caught at the airport was 50 mph.  When it's that windy the air blows up your nose like water when you dive feet first. Today, however, I could hardly walk in my yard without crushing a plump pecan. The wet weather this year gave birth to greatest bumper crop of sweet pecans I have ever seen. It is amazing what the wind turns up. On Cache Road that orange netti ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 10/26/2007 9:25 PM

Raise your hand if you've had your house or car burgled. That's what I thought. Most of us. And that fact is why the shooting death of teen burglar Freddie Stuever resonates so deeply among Lawtonians. At first glance the shooting seemed like it might tread the boundary of an actionable offense. That was only at first glance.

When Jeff Dorrell confronted a burglar carrying out a gun case from Dorrell's parent's home on NW 70th, what happened next was the culmination ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 10/10/2007 10:06 PM

When you were watching the report about the Christmas House in our fair Elmer Thomas Park being torched, you also heard the confession. We were clearly barking out our manifesto in the background. Don't tread on me, or drive on me while you meander through the park looking at Christmas lights. Prairie dogs unite. All you do-gooders say you will rebuild the Christmas House and then post cameras to keep us from doing to again. Catch us if you can! Does the Oklahoma Criminal Code apply to ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 9/27/2007 8:25 PM

If football is a sport of quick hits and flashy uniforms, baseball is the sport of slow shifts and tradition. What other sport features so many teams who still wear uniforms from the early 20th century, and they're not throwbacks? Part of the tradition is also in the voices that call the games. For most Oklahomans, that meant Jack Buck and the Cardinals on KMOX at night and to a lesser degree Eric Nadel and the Texas Rangers. For me, though, it's been Skip Caray and the Braves on TBS. S ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 9/12/2007 1:41 PM

We've been hearing and reading a lot about merit pay for teachers in Oklahoma. Sounds like a good idea, but isn't it a little ironic that in a self-determination, bootstraps state like Oklahoma, we want to blame teachers instead of parents for poor school performance? Who wants to bet that teachers in schools from hardscrabble areas will be feeling the wrath of performance evaluations, while teachers in high-income districts will be pulling down handsome merit-paychecks? I have an idea. ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 8/31/2007 8:27 PM

I'm stuck at my computer trying to listen to the Ike, Lawton game and the link is not connecting me to the game's stream. What gives? I understand Ike is working on a big upset, storming back from 14-0 to go to 24-14.

By Sheridan on 8/17/2007 3:59 PM

As we speak, rains from Tropical Depression Erin are targeting our area for the weekend, meaning a break (and probably a permanent break) in the 100 degree days. But that's not the main story. The big story is Hurricane Dean, that looks to be a Category 4 or 5 juggernaut that should skip through Yucatan into northern Mexico. Check out Frank Strait's Accuweather blog at Read More »