The Muskogee Phoenix

The Muskogee Phoenix is a daily newspaper that is published every morning, seven days a week, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It serves various counties in the northeastern part of the state and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Established in February 1888, the Phoenix predates Oklahoma's admission as a state.

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Dwight Mission served Cherokees in education

5 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Jonita Mullins

The first Christian mission in Oklahoma was Union Mission. This Presbyterian work opened in 1821 at a location on the Neosho River among the Osages. The following year, the Presbyterian mission board opened Dwight Mission in Arkansas among the Cherokees. Dwight Mission was located on the Illinois Bayou near Russellville. It was named for Timothy Dwight, a president of Yale College, and founder of the American Board of Missions. Reach Jonita Mullins at [email protected].
Build nest boxes for cavity nesters

5 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Deb Hirt
DEI not an issue, nor funding, freedom of speech

6 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Lee Guthrie

Many universities in the U.S. are facing threats to funding by President Donald J. Trump's administration, the latest being Yale University. But those issues aren't a factor for Northeastern State University. Students at the University of Connecticut and Yale University protested against what they called an attack on higher education. This includes suspensions of research funding, cancellations of international student visas, and what some see as a failure on the part of local officials to respond.
City to decide on four options for sales tax vote

6 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Cathy Spaulding

By CATHY SPAULDING/Muskogee Phoenix Muskogee City Council is to choose one of four sales tax election options Monday. The council meet in special session at 5:30 p.m. Monday to decide what goes into the sales tax package, how long the sales tax would be in effect and when the sales tax election is to be. The council is to call the election at its April 28 meeting.
City could face tight budget

6 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Cathy Spaulding

By By Cathy Spaulding [email protected] Muskogee Mayor Patrick Cale said he doesn't expect the city can spend more money in fiscal year 2026 than in 2025. Muskogee City Council members are to review and draft a fiscal year 2026 budget at an all-day session, 9 a.m. Tuesday at Muskogee Davis Regional Airport, 1201 Sabre St.
Correction: Easter Egg Hunt

6 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Cathy Spaulding
United State already rich from world economy

6 days ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Rich Lowry

Judging by the results, the United States should be the last country that wants to reorder the world economy. We've thrived in recent decades, while other advanced democracies have fallen behind.
Trump, Musk sabotage government under guise of reformation

1 week ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Jim Hightower

As Trump & Co. hurl horror after horror at us from the murky darkness of their extremely wasteful "war on government waste," I think of Lily Tomlin, who said years ago: "No matter how cynical you get, it's almost impossible to keep up."But no need to swat frantically at their every assault. Their Blitzkrieg against everything at once is an intentional ploy to divide us into small, separate scrambles to save this and that, rather than rallying a unified, furious opposition to them.
Tricks, trap create something pretty

1 week ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Eric Morrow

Antlions are ugly insect larvae that hunt ants. Eventually, they blossom into dragonfly-like insects and fly away from their burrows, where they trap ants before metamorphosing like butterflies. Antlions dig pits that passing ants fall into and are trapped in the burrow. They are also called doodlebugs. Because of black's outside passed pawns on g3 and h3, the position seems ugly for white.
Council to vote on setting sales tax election

1 week ago | muskogeephoenix.com | Cathy Spaulding

City councilors are expected Monday to set a date and provide details for a sales tax election, said Muskogee Mayor Patrick Cale. Discussion and possible action on an election had been scheduled for a special council meeting Monday, but Cale said he wanted to wait.