Kentucky selected 26 businesses Monday to grow and process medical marijuana, as regulators prepare to kick off the state’s cannabis program in January. The businesses were chosen during a drawing at Kentucky Lottery headquarters in Louisville, whittling down nearly 5,000 applications to just over two dozen winners spanning cultivation and …
Pinto Congress Returns to Tulsa
Pinto Horse Association of America is hosting the annual Color Breed Congress horse show in Tulsa, Okla., Nov. 1-9. The entire event is free to the public. Over the course of the horse show, around 15,000 people and as many as 1,500 horses in over 600 classes will make their way to Tulsa’s Expo Square
Corrections Empowers Incarcerated
Shortly after his appointment as executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC), Steven Harpe recognized that a critical voice was absent from decision-making – the voice of over 21,000 incarcerated individuals in Oklahoma’s correctional facilities. To make meaningful improvements in facility conditions and support rehabilitation, Harpe established the Office of Offender Advocacy, appointing
The best places to go in Mexico to celebrate Day of the Dead
Not long ago, the Day of the Dead festival was a mystery to most Americans, and even some Mexicans, too. People who did know about it tended to think it was the “Mexican Halloween,” which is not true. But in recent decades, this annual observance has spread from its origins mostly in southern Mexico to