Nathan Rees is both a former police chief and a current cannabis medical dispensary proprietor.  This week he played an important role in bringing together medical patients and law enforcement in a very important training for cops and communities.
  The Muskogee regional airport was transformed into a road course for demonstrating the impairment impact of 3 subgroups of drivers:

•  those who text (or otherwise are distracted) while driving
• those consuming liquor, then driving
• those consuming cannabis(marijuana), then driving

 Nathan is comfortable with lots of folks, including the cops who interact with them. That made him a crucial part of making this a successful day.
  Norma Sapp & Chris Moe were there to observe and report.
  We're posting both Nathan's article (posted to social media) and the video report that Chris and Norma posted.

  The legal office of the US Dept of Agriculture gave a red light to the Pawhuska Police dept. and District Attorney Mike Fisher. At the same time, the state of Colorado and the medical company who purchased the truckload of industrial hemp got a green light to file a federal lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma and the city of Pawhuska for the actions of the local police, last January.  District Attorney Mike Fisher (just sworn in on January 1st) is seeking a life sentence for 2 of the 4 members of the trucking entourage.
  Fisher believes his confiscated payload is not legal industrial hemp because some preliminary field tests could not guarantee that it's THC content is limited to 0.3% .  Fisher's rationale is that any exceedance of 0.3% then turns the payload into a Schedule 1 federally banned substance, without an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Business license. Oklahoma House Majority Floor Leader, Jon Echols, wrote the state legislation on industrial 'trace' hemp which DA Fisher is supposed to be enforcing.

  A long-time Pawhuska resident says firefighter Lloyd Arnce  hit her and attempted to steal her smartphone, this past Friday. 
  Tjuana Kelley Boulanger was in Veteran's Park with her family & friends, including children. She was lending her assistance to a citizens effort to recall members of the local city council and collection petitions.
  She says that while they were eating lunch in the park, several municipal agency personnel swarmed the park and the Animal control officer blocked the rear parking lot entrance.  Two police dept. officers then came in, along with a member of the local fire dept.
  When Boulanger refused to cease her petition gathering, she asserted that state law bars the city from even creating such ordinances to ban constitutional free speech and assembly; and the right of petitioning the govt. for redress of grievance further guarantees her rights.
  The lead female officer politely backed down from demands and Boulanger went back to her lunch table.
  The two officers talked with the other responders and then left the park while Ms. Boulanger wished them a blessed day.
  But then the remaining firefighter got irritated that Boulanger's live social media video feed caught his image. 
That's when he started yelling as he crossed the parking lot.  The video clearly shows him grabbing at her and attempting to take her phone. He eventually gives up and walks away.
The trauma of all this happening to Boulanger and in front of a young girl was clearly impacting. She tells the viewers;
"The war is on! If I die today, I die making change."

  We contacted Boulanger over the weekend and asked what she plans to do about this. She told us that she is needing good civil rights council and she plans to file a police report.
  Boulanger wants a judge to order the city agencies not to interfere with petition gathering or harass the citizens involved in it. She wants the accosting firefighter charged with battery and attempted theft. He must immediately be suspended from the fire dept. while awaiting trial.  
 Below you'll see the video of her live feed when the Pawhuska agencies tried to shut down her petition gathering.
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  Rex Wikel, the man who may have masterminded the overthrow of the Police Chief, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma; is now resigned from the city's most powerful office.

  On Wednesday, after an emergency city council meeting, Wikel was out as city manager, and a new interim manager was swiftly hired. That interim manager was an administrative assistant last week. Tonya Bright now has vast authority to set the city back to order. She directed the city attorney to resolve the police chief matter. Within minutes Silva emerged from a private meeting an announced his return to the helm of the police dept.
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  Just last Friday morning, Wikel was preparing to take over as city manager for the retired bank executive who was serving in the role for the past couple years. Larry Eulert's term was ending at the end of June, but his replacement was former Police Chief, Rex Wikel. When Eulert hired the younger former Tulsa Police officer, & former Osage Nation police chief; Wikel was evidently not a fan of the changes made to Wikel's former dept.

  American Airlines (AA) went to Federal Court, this past week, to seek penalties for union members defying an injunction at the main Maintenance facility in Tulsa, as well as other facilities which service the aircraft they rely upon. 
  In testimony offered to the courts, AA says that over 175,000 travelers have been inconvenienced by the slowdown which the union is accused of orchestrating.
  AA's largest maintenance facility is in Tulsa, OK.
 A trial is scheduled for Monday in federal district court in Fort Worth on American’s request for a permanent injunction against the Transport Workers Union and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
  The unions strongly contend that AA is to blame for walking away from contract talks.  They claim that the low morale is an inevitability which the union is helpless to contain.
  The court has set a Monday hearing on the matter. It's at the federal courthouse in Fort Worth, TX.
  AA has long been the largest single employer in the Tulsa metro area.
  The Associated Press (AP) has continuing coverage of the developments.

  The man has been called "the Rock Star" by authorities like Tulsa District Attorney, Steven Kunzweiler. Former Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice, Steven Taylor, has been called out of retirement at the request of the Cleveland County District Court judge who is presiding over the docket that includes many major lawsuits involving Opioid manufacturers and distributors, and the State of Oklahoma.
  The matter got stickier when AG Mike Hunter 'went rogue' and devised whole new state institutions and took the hundreds of millions from one settlement to fully fund the construction, staffing, and scope of the new govt. entity.
  The legislature & governor had to scurry in the spring session to write & pass laws to reign in the conduct of the AG.  But that seems to be falling somewhat on deaf ears at the AG's office, because another settlement of $85 million is at risk because the terms don't seem to be consistent with the new law.
  For this reason, Cleveland County District Court Judge, Thad Balkman, tapped the most respected jurist available. That's Steven Taylor.
  Taylor is the former mayor of McAlester, OK. He then was elected to the district court in Pittsburgh county. Judge Taylor presided over the famous Oklahoma City Bombing trial of Terry Nichols, from his court in McAlester.  Taylor was also a Marine infantry platoon commander, and  the Marine's youngest military court judge, at age 28.
Read more of the case, here.

Oklahoma has had access to legal cannabis medicines for about half a year. In that time the licensed growing, processing, & dispensary outlets have far exceeded projections for economic impact. Last month, dispensaries paid $3.6 million dollars on cannabis medicine sales.
  The masses of our citizens  who have become licensed to treat their medical conditions with Cannabis, is double what the State Health Dept. projected just 10 months ago.
   Now, many of the same advocates who brought about SQ788, are announcing their intent to draft language for a broader repeal of prohibition of cannabis.
  This is not uncharted territory for Oklahoma. On this date, 90 years ago, Marijuana was fully legal in Oklahoma, and Liquor possession was a federal crime.
   Chris Moe has been a lobbying force at the state capitol for most of this past session. He's organizing a massive 2-day festival in Oklahoma City, to commemorate the passage of SQ788.  
  As a chronic pain sufferer, Moe has seen scores of fellow Oklahomans' lives improved, as Opiates were replaced with Cannabis medicine alternatives.
  Moe recently posted his political strategy to his social media outlets. We're  posting his message below.

  In our recent news article, OMMA Audit Reveals False Agency Reports of Licenses,  we asked several questions about what the root causes might be. In our investigation we reached out to one of the legislators who devoted extensive attention to the new agency and it's operation. 
  Representative Scott Fetgatter of Okmulgee said he'd look into the matter when we contacted him Monday evening. Early this afternoon he responded with the news that the agency provided directly to him.
  He said that the custom software system the OMMA is using, has a counting system that gives running totals in every classification of licensing. But a glitch in the software is evidently resulting in a redundant count when a license holder provides updated information about their existing license. So if a dispensary  needs to follow up with new information, they would update their details with the OMMA. But that would inadvertently be counted as 2 licenses, while only one actual license exists.
  We're not sure if a change in appointed caregiver may also be a factor, so that when a patient cancels a caregiver license and appoints another, does the software still tabulate two licenses when only one exists? the Caregiver count is the most radical category of change in the new report.

  The OMMA finally resumed their reports on the numbers of licenses filed and issued by the Agency. The previous report, on May 13th (20 days ago) had some very inaccurate data. It appears that the numbers were way off for several weekly reports. This data gave a false impression to market analysts and venture capitalists, as well as proprietors investing vast sums in the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Industry.

  The short Twitter 'tweet' simply says that "An audit has been performed. The agency does not tell us that any mistakes were make, but our own spreadsheets and archives of their tweets does indicate that they have been reporting inconsistent numbers.

  The agency claims that they were forced to hire 'temps' until the legislature could authorize the proper funding for true employees.  In the past few months their call center has been disbanded for several weeks so they could divert that staffing to filling the backlogs of applicants whom they are mandated to provide an accurate response to within 14 days of submitting a complete application online.
​  Here's what our spreadsheets seem to indicate about data which we now see as false...

  Brian Hobbs is the newly elected mayor of the north central Oklahoma city of Newkirk. we spoke on Saturday about a multi county flood relief effort he's helping to organize, for affected counties.
 He says the initiative was started by a young woman who used to be his family's babysitter. Thalia Douglas is working with needy farmers & ranchers throughout the flooded counties. Here's the update the field team sent him. He forwarded it to our news service.
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  Dahm & Moore Set The high marks for the two houses of the Oklahoma Legislature. 
  In our inaugural publication of legislative commitment to preserving & advancing individual freedom in Oklahoma, This year's 57th Oklahoma Legislature celebrates a very robust year of commitment to constitutional rights.
  We look at hundreds of bills to find a good sampling of floor votes which represent a broad spectrum of freedoms and we evaluate how each lawlaker weighed & cast their votes. We also looked at how leaders of committees conducted themselves and the vast power they hold.
  We added bonus points for legislators who took the time to draft and promote bills which are essential to protecting & advancing constitutional liberty.

What is the Freedom Index? 
  The Freedom Index seeks to identify how diligent a lawmaker is, to protecting individual freedom for the people of Oklahoma. We gathered a set of various bills which indicate many forms of freedom. Free Speech, Self Defense, Free Association, Vocational Freedom Economic Freedom, Parental authority, Healthcare access and options. Travel and Privacy.

  More than a year after a heroic mother was arrested for discharging her personal firearm, Mary Hill was successful in convincing a local district court to vacate her previous plea bargain and have all charges removed from her records.
  If ever there was a case for why the 2nd Amendment is essential to public safety, this narrative illustrates why.
   Hill was picking up her teen child at a metro area theater when she saw what she describes as a young woman being beaten by two men.  She decided to intervene with her handgun and order the men to disperse. They initially complied but then challenged whether her weapon was real, and then resumed their assault. That's when she fired upward, into the air. It worked as intended and the men fled.
  But the woman fled also, and when peace officers arrived everyone was gone. Yet they decided to pursue Mrs. Hill and arrest her for not having a permit for her firearm. They also cited her for a felony because she discharged her weapon.
  According to the laws at the time, she would not have been charged if she had shot the assailants.  Rep. Bobby Cleveland had that law changed last year.  It's no longer a crime to miss or warn a criminal, in defense of innocent human life.

  The Sooner State's most notorious & deadly county jail is now being taken away from the county sheriff and will be under the oversight of a new Jail Trust. Commissioner Kevin Calvey is part of that new trust board. 
  In this live civic breakfast event he discusses the reasons why this change is happening. He explains that 80% of those housed in the jail are not (yet) deemed guilty of any crime.
  Many of them are only in jail for not having  paid previous fines or currently assigned bonds. It's become a debtor's prison and a death trap for way too many.

 This video was provided by Adrian Otap, at ​https://www.facebook.com/OTAPji/videos/10158481395678272/?notif_id=1559222007710120&notif_t=live_video