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Poll results:
We received 246 votes on the Saturday poll, “How are you celebrating Halloween this year?”
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Handing out candy to trick-or-treaters (74)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Taking the kids trick-or-treating (17)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Going to a Halloween party or event (16)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Staying home and watching scary movies (16)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skipping Halloween altogether (123)
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Time for change? Permanent daylight saving time bill awaiting US Senate action
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By David Lightman, Oklahoma Voice
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Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks.
President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats and Republicans are behind the idea.
Yet, any momentum has stalled. The legislation can’t get out of the U.S. Senate, and it looks unlikely there’ll be much progress anytime soon.
Senators are due to return to Washington from a lengthy recess on Nov. 9, and a push for year-round daylight saving time is expected. But it faces strong opposition from senators in rural areas and those who represent states where children could be walking to school in darkness for most of the winter.
“No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Saving Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,” Sen. Tom Cotton said in a tweet. The Arkansas Republican’s office referred to that Oct. 3 post when asked for comment last week.
The other side is just as dug in.
“People are sick and tired of having to change their Clocks twice a year,” Trump posted on Truth Social earlier this month. In another post, he criticized Cotton and apparently gave out the senator’s cell phone number.
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Here’s what’s happening in Oklahoma today:
'Buy us out!': Neighbors of new data center campus say construction of Project Scissortail has ruined their peace (Public Radio Tulsa)
Sales tax opponents gather at Oklahoma County jail, speak out against proposal to fund new facility (KOSU)
Lawyers call BA mosque denial ‘unlawful animus’ as unrelated SCOTUS case looms (Broken Arrow Sentinel)
Oklahoma leaders seek dismissal of lawsuit challenging state abortion bans (StateImpact Oklahoma)
Court rulings raise questions about Flock camera uses by Oklahoma police (Gaylord News)
‘I was chained up’: How court debt forgiveness gave one Oklahoman a new life (The Frontier)
As Tedford takes on Croisant, GOP incumbents seek return to Washington (NonDoc)
Bartlesville City Council candidate arrested, charged with assault, pointing firearm (News On 6)
Tulsa Public Schools adds campus to consolidation list, with Zarrow moving to Hoover (Tulsa Flyer)
OSBI investigating officer-involved shooting in Carter County (KXII)
Gun fired at trick-or-treaters, former judge arrested for attempted murder (KFOR)
Chicken Shack to open at Lake Murray as Oklahoma changes approach (Fox 25)
Paul Lehman, Oklahoma's first Black TV anchor, dies at 85 (The Oklahoman)*
OKC Thunder exercises options on Jared McCain and Thomas Sorber but not Nikola Topic (The Oklahoman)*
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