Trump’s pulling America out of a poorly negotiated agreement should be praised and applauded. He really did put America first.

TPS Superintendent Deboard Gist has announced that she will donate at $25,000 bonus that she earned to the Foundation for Tulsa Schools, as she did last year. That means the money will flow back to TPS classrooms, where it will do a great deal of good.

I agree with both George Kaiser ("Reversing fiscal folly", May 14) and my fellow Republican, Don Battle ("Pay attention" May 29). We are at the bottom of most measurements for quality of life issues and needed government services, most notably education.

According to the Urban Dictionary, a fake person is someone who is not genuine and will do anything to make himself look good. He will take credit for other’s work or downplay the good of others to illuminate himself. Fake people take part in hypocrisy, lies and will turn on a friendship the moment it no longer is a benefit to them. They will change their personality to fit in a certain group.

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The Tulsa World invited freshman state House member Meloyde Blancett to list five lessons she learned in her first year in the Oklahoma Legislature. This is her response.

Legislation under consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives would wipe out any chance of federal oversight of the small loan industry in the United States.

Payday lenders and similar operations charge ridiculously high interest rates to poor clients and then "flip" the loans repeatedly to make sure the borrowers pay and pay and pay some more.

You are the cartoonist! Win your own Bruce Plante original! Tulsa World editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante will publish a cartoon each Monday and you get to create the punch line.

When government fails to appropriate adequate dollars to state agencies providing core services, individual aspirations are difficult to be realized. When our state government funds our pre-k through 12 educational system so low as to rank 48th in the country (Census Bureau), year after year; when the fastest growth in our educational system is among four day per week schools, student-to-teacher class sizes, and alternative certificated teachers; when higher education appropriations have been cut over 20 percent in just two years; and when Oklahoma was recently ranked by WalletHub as having the 47th lowest overall tax burden in the nation, logic suggests a reprioritization.

I suppose I missed something during the last election. Voters put the same people back in office, after they were part of a do-nothing Legislature.

What a shock. What a dumb move. I couldn't believe that Channel 6 basically let Scott Thompson go ("News on 6 chooses not to renew anchor Scott Thompson's contract," May 25).

The proliferation of fake news will be slowed only by a better educated — and caring — public.

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WASHINGTON — When the next financial crisis hits — an event that may be years or decades away — we will learn whether this Congress and the president drew the right lessons from the 2008-09 financial crisis.

Despite the expressed will of the people, the full backing of the governor and piles of evidence to the contrary, one obstinate man was allowed kill criminal justice reform for the year, meaning the state will continue to waste money on prisoners who could and should be diverted into programs to turn them into taxpayers instead of tax consumers.

I was very happy to read the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation is bringing a Kiva City presence to Tulsa (“Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation to help launch microfinancing platform for Tulsans,” May 25).

Long may he wave

The May 27 Tulsa World front page tells you everything you need to know about Oklahoma's government. Just beneath the article about the Legislature failing to adequately fund our kids' schools (“Budget just beats deadline”) was an article about our best teacher leaving (“Teacher of the Year pens letter to state as he departs for Texas”).

When it comes to pre-existing health conditions, there’s no such thing as the good ol’ days.

Thanks to Mayor G.T. Bynum and City Councilor David Patrick for the proactive approach to the city’s panhandler problem (“City program will put panhandlers to work,” May 25).

By now everyone should know that the Legislature and the governor have failed miserably.

The Congressional Budget Office has scored the American Health Care Act, and it is cleared for the Senate to act on it.

I'm not a fan of SQ 640 and never have been. It empowers the lunatic fringe in the Legislature and — in combination with a series of ill-considered tax cuts dating back to the Henry administration — is responsible for the lion's share of the budgetary morass that the state is in.

But there's a proper way to rewrite the Constitution ... the same way it was rewritten in 1992 ... by the consent of the governed.

The 1970s gave us many things, some good, some not so good. Depending on your point of view, the sitcom "Happy Days" could fall into either of those categories. But it did leave some lasting memories.

Politicians and skiers share one thing: It doesn’t end well for either if they get ahead of their skis. That’s something for Democrats to remember as some in their base start to demand impeaching President Donald Trump.

Attacks on President Donald Trump are commonplace — many depict him as this wildly bizarre, classless person occupying the Oval Office — but have critics fairly considered what a horror show a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been?

When I ran for office in 2016, I was often pegged as a one-issue candidate. People connected me to State Question 779, the proposal to raise the state sales tax by 1 percent for education, and the drive to raise teacher salaries. Eventually, I embraced the idea of running on one issue, though as I saw it, the issue was democracy. Sadly, SQ 779 failed, as did most of the teacher candidates.

The U. S. House of Representatives has attempted to replace the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act. This House bill is horrible.

While I applaud Mayor G.T. Bynum’s efforts to address the panhandling problem, the work program proposed is rather lame (“City program will put panhandlers to work,” May 25).

Oklahoma teachers leaving for greener pastures is, sadly, routine news. But the loss of former teacher of the year Shawn Sheehan and his sincere but heartbreaking farewell post took the feeling of loss to another level. It also fueled the feelings of anger and disgust toward leaders who have brought the state to another budget disaster.

The powers that be at the Scripps National Spelling Bee should consider proposals to make the event a spelling competition in which the best and brightest kids get multiple opportunities to perform onstage in a meaningful way.

Edmond speller Rohan Rajeev is National Spelling Bee runner-up

The prophetic voices from our past and present indict us. If we are ignorant, we are ignorant by choice. Generations of Christian parents have forsaken God’s admonition to “train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6).

Many thanks and praises to the men of Tulsa Fire Department Ladder 20 for their rescue of eight baby ducklings from the storm drain in front of our house May 19.

Editorial Pages Editor Wayne Greene said there is enough blame to go around and then puts blame on the Democrats (“Big Oil is set to make a lot more money in Oklahoma, why can't it pay more taxes?” May 19).

My heart goes out to the people who are going to be displaced by the closing of three elementary schools in southwest Tulsa. It does seem that the administration is picking on the west side. Some other schools must have low enrollment.