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By: Storme Jones OKLAHOMA CITY - A state watchdog is questioning how the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) spends millions of dollars every year. The trust spends more than $50 million each year from the interest accrued on proceeds from a late 90s lawsuit against big tobacco. “We specifically looked at the way the agency was spending money and couldn't see correlation to outcomes in terms of people stopping using the product,” LOFT Executive Director Mike Jackson said. According to his team’s report, Oklahoma ranks eighth in the nation for tobacco sensation spending, but still...

CENTRALIA — The Southwest Washington Fair is slowly coming together. And under its 2021 theme, “Let’s All Go To The Fair,” officials are planning a wide-open, regular event, wary that restrictions may or may not be imposed by the governor’s office.

Orpheus Leading Eurydice 1. My affinity for language is a given. But how it was given—and revealed more than other affinities that may have had it out for me as well—is a mystery I’m trying to solve. My hunch is that an affinity for words was present at birth, then snapped-to early on by seductive teachers who assigned adventure narratives and lyric poems, and later the stories of Stephen Crane, the novels of Thomas Hardy, the poetry of Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay (her marquee name was a poem in itself). The tenderly implied coupling in the woods Tess endured with Alec D’...

Orpheus Leading Eurydice 1. My affinity for language is a given. But how it was given—and revealed more than other affinities that may have had it out for me as well—is a mystery I’m trying to solve. My hunch is that an affinity for words was present at birth, then snapped-to early on by seductive teachers who assigned adventure narratives and lyric poems, and later the stories of Stephen Crane, the novels of Thomas Hardy, the poetry of Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay (her marquee name was a poem in itself). The tenderly implied coupling in the woods Tess endured with Alec D’...

Bradley is an animated woman of 36, whose tousled long black hair and French accent give her an exotic cast. When I acknowledge her accent, she replies, “Yes, I’m sorry, I’m from France,” an apology for her country, which has been thrown in the gutter by some Americans for not supporting the war. Her husband, a weapons officer, is aboard the Constellation in the Persian Gulf. Bustling through the warehouse, she shows me how overstuffed it is with household goods. “There’s too much,” she says. And then an idea pops out: “Wouldn’t it be great if we could find someone in San Di...