OKC 2022 proposed budget smaller, but includes more money for police
An annual springtime ritual began Tuesday as the OKC City Council received the proposed Fiscal Year 2022 budget from several city departments.
At $1.6 billion,...
What Stitt lifting his COVID-19 state of emergency means in Oklahoma
(Update: On Friday, May 21, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services announced that it had received federal approval to extend the additional Supplemental Nutrition...
Seven school districts have bond proposals for May 11 special election
Seven Oklahoma school districts will have bond issues on the ballot for the May 11 special election, including Edmond, Moore, Covington-Douglas, Plainview, Bishop, South...
Faces and heels: WWE metaphors, doppelgängers for the 2021 Oklahoma Legislature
The 2021 Oklahoma Legislature has turned into one hell of a theatrical Royal Rumble, at least among members of House and Senate leadership.
House Speaker...
Despite tribal funding, Stitt questions I-35 flyover ramp to Riverwind Casino parking lot
(Update: On Monday, May 3, the Oklahoma Transportation Commission voted 2-7 against both Item 69 and Item 70, as detailed in the article below.)
The...
Follow through on SQ 781 by funding treatment and rehabilitation services
Oklahoma has made remarkable progress to reduce our incarceration rate in recent years. Reforms through the ballot box, reforms by the Legislature and administrative...
Forum highlights at-large candidates for Cherokee Nation Tribal Council
Ideas about issues facing the Cherokee Nation and its citizens were the focus of a candidate forum hosted by the Central Oklahoma Cherokee Alliance...
Oklahoma delegation reacts negatively to Biden’s joint session address
WASHINGTON — Members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation were unified in their opposition to President Joe Biden’s address Wednesday to a joint session of Congress.
Biden’s...
‘The noise of democracy’: GRDA task force gets rowdy, recommends bond increase
After an hour and 40 minutes of tense questions and answers and a soliloquy from Grand River Damn Authority CEO Dan Sullivan criticizing a...
‘Excellent’ bond market could help Oklahoma’s new utility securitization plan
After the Oklahoma Development Finance Authority and the Oklahoma Industrial Finance Authority adjourned their meetings this morning, the agencies' president, Mike Davis, needed to...
