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Osage woman elected as vice mayor for the city of Pawhuska

Susan Bayro has proven her value to Pawhuska over the past year and was recently chosen by her fellow council members to serve as vice mayor

Back in 2022, Susan Bayro became the first Osage woman ever elected to the Pawhuska City Council – and now she’s ratcheted up another first as the first Osage woman to be elected vice mayor by her fellow councilmembers.

She might be the first Osage vice mayor, period, but no one appears to have kept those kinds of records.

Bayro, who works for the Osage Nation as a strategic planning analyst, has made her place on the City Council by applying her day job to her elected: She has worked to develop better policies and procedures, developed job descriptions – previously lacking – for city manager and fire chief, and helped update the city’s comprehensive plan as well as its capital improvement plan, documents that are key to obtaining infrastructure and other grants.

“Those items were desperately needed to get funds,” Bayro said.

Bayro might well be described as the ranking wonk on the council for her attention to detail and love of planning. Before she was elected, she and the Nation worked with the city to install broadband downtown, helped the state Department of Environmental Quality to iron out glitches in the city’s wastewater and water operations by building templates and policies to avert the chaos that used to come with employees leaving, and worked in Indian Health Service to fix the city’s 2 million gallon water tank and the dam at Lake Pawhuska.

Bayro grew up in Pawhuska, the daughter of Jesse and Pam Abrams. She is married to Mike Bayro, a Pawhuska firefighter, with whom she has two children.

She has a master’s degree in International Business with a minor in marketing.

The mayor of Pawhuska, in whose absence Bayro will serve as mayor, is Mark Buchanan.

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  • Louise Red Corn

    Title: Freelance Author
    Twitter: @louiseredcorn
    Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

    Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

    After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

    When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

    In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

    Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

    Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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Louise Red Corn
Louise Red Cornhttps://osagenews.org
Title: Freelance Author
Twitter: @louiseredcorn
Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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