In The News: Cold Reception

Here are the headlines shared on Friday, January 17, 2025

Ronald Regan had his 2nd Inauguration indoors due to the cold in 1985 (Wikipedia)

Cold Reception

I watched a news clip on social media today. A reporter interviewed people who had just learned that Monday’s Inauguration ceremony had been moved indoors. They talked to two Oklahomans who had made the trip to Washington, D.C., and weren’t exactly happy about it.

Harry Troyer and Ken Robinson were interviewed about the inauguration (video)

“We have farms. We don’t get to not feed the cows cause it’s cold.”

They’re predicting heavy snow and frigid temperatures in the region. It is perfectly understandable to move the ceremony indoors. You don’t want to stand for hours in conditions like that. No matter how hearty you think you are.

Monday’s inauguration will be the first since Ronald Regan in 1985 to be held indoors due to cold weather.

I honestly kind of feel bad for the people who made the trip up there early. They now get the joy of heading home, sitting in their motel rooms, or hanging out in a bar and watching it on TV like the rest of the nation. Well, not me. I’m not watching it live. I’ll wait for the late show monologues. It will be way more entertaining that way.

Bitterly cold weather is also coming to Oklahoma over the weekend and well into next week. Be safe and warm, everyone.

More later. Time to bundle up.

In The News

Here are the headlines shared on Friday, January 17, 2025

• Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters hit with a new ethics probe (KFOR)

• Oklahomans speak against checking students’ immigration status in schools (Oklahoma Voice)

• Education advocates take stand against proposed OSDE immigration rules (KJRH)

• Bartlesville Library: 'We do not teach people how to get fake IDs' (KJRH)

• Respiratory illnesses affecting students across Oklahoma (KOCO)

• City of Lawton Investigates Great Plains Improvement Foundation (KSWO)

• Administrators make plans for a new Ardmore High School (KTEN)

• Choctaw Nation appoints first female Appellate Courts Judge (KTEN)

• Edmond officially removes discriminatory language from plat documents (KGOU)

• Department of Interior: United Keetowah Band shares Cherokee Nation reservation (KOSU)

• Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, threatening app's existence in the U.S. (Public Radio Tulsa)

• Trump inauguration moved inside U.S. Capitol amid predictions of Arctic blast (News From The States)

• How to turn off Copilot in Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions (Microsoft Support)

U.S. Drought Monitor / Oklahoma / January 16, 2025 (Summary)

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