Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com The weather men warned us. Over and over.

Who would challenge the fact that our world today has gotten much smaller than at any time in its history. Not physically smaller, of course, but smaller in the sense that we can communicate and interrelate with people and businesses in other nations around the world in a matter of seconds...

Since we passed the March 11 deadline to advance bills that originated in our chamber, we’re now focusing on reviewing House bills that were approved in their chamber and assigning them to our Senate committees. We sent roughly 450 measures to the House, and they sent approximately 420 to our chamber. We’ll spend the next three weeks hearing these in committee.

Recently we had the opportunity to have lunch with a young, newly married friend whom we haven’t seen in a few months. After the usual banter and light gossip about the lives of mutual friends, we asked about his life now that he had been a husband for a while. His bride, his new house, their plans for the future –– you know the drill.

Two big annual events in Choctaw County last week included the Choctaw County Junior Livestock Show and the Chamber of Commerce annual Awards Banquet. Both events appropriately are intended to reward outstanding individual effort.

Congressman Markwayne Mullin says Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to grab guns now that Democrats control Congress and the White House. “Gun owners across our country should be concerned about the future of our Second Amendment rights with Nancy Pelosi and her radical Democrats in control of the House,” said Mullin.