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@oklahoma_watch has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in February 2020. Resources oklahoma_watch has populated their site with include: • Did Barack Obama drop more than 26,000 bombs on six different countries without congressional approval, as Secretary Mullin claimed? • Were 90% of private school tax voucher recipients already enrolled in private schools and less than 1% financially disadvantaged? • Left Behind: People Deported by ICE Leave Behind Families of Citizens and Lasting Trauma • oklahomawatch.org • Allstate Next in Drummond’s Insurance Crusade • Was the shopping cart invented in Oklahoma in 1937? • Is Oklahoma among the most biologically diverse states by number of ecoregions? • What to Know About State Question 846, the Voter Identification Measure • When Landlords Don’t Pay the Bills, It’s the Tenants Who Struggle • "Where You Want to Put Your Data Center Is Not a Trade Secret." Oklahoma's NDA Debate, Explained. - Oklahoma Watch • Voter ID Measures, Campaign Funds for Parents and the Insurance Wildfire • Oklahoma’s Insurance Commissioner May Not Even Need to Live in Oklahoma. The Law Is “A Little Bit Goofy.” • Were there zero releases into the United States for a year under Trump, as Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed? • Have hospital prices increased nearly 300% since 2000, outpacing inflation and wages, as Rep. Hern claimed? • Is the minimum wage for tipped restaurant staff in Oklahoma $2.13? • Oklahoma's Most Powerful Local Office Is Going Uncontested. Here's Why Nobody Is Running. - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Gubernatorial Hopeful AWOL From Police Pension Board • Marijuana Testing Hampered by Lack of Consistency, Lab Shopping • Candidate Attendance, Residency Disputes, and Apartment Agony • A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August • Serial Evictions, Rent-to-Own Deals and $58 Filing Fees: How a Colorado Company Profits From Oklahoma's Weak Tenant Laws • Oklahoma’s Ballyhooed Naloxone Vending Machine Program is Gone, Leaving Communities Scrambling to Fill the Gap • “It’s Defunding Schools”: What Oklahoma Superintendents Say About State Question 844 • Did nearly 80% of registered voters sit out for State Question 832? • Here’s How an Under-the-Radar Court Decision Could Bolster Oklahoma’s Political Parties • AI Schools, Ballot Initiatives, and Serial Evictors • The Price of Freedom: Oklahoma Bail Schedules Vary Widely, Penalizing the Poorest • Oklahoma Native American Students Ranked First in the Nation in Reading and Math, but Funding Cuts Could Change That • Does Monsanto v. Durnell bar Oklahoma from adding differing health warnings to pesticide labels? • Oklahoma’s Elite State Boarding School Refuses to Adopt Title IX Protections. A Departing Administrator Called It a Crisis Waiting to Happen. • From Roger Stone to the Inola Smelter: Fact-Checking the Oklahoma Governor’s Runoff Debate • Cedar Lake Disputes, County Bail Disparities and Funding Native Success • Vesta Realty’s Collapse Has Left Tenants Unsure Who Gets the Rent and Scared of What Comes Next • Felony Murder Rule in Oklahoma Can Send Children to Jail for Murders They Didn’t Personally Commit • Watchdog for $46 Billion Tribal Gambling Industry Can't Enforce the Law Without a Chairperson - Oklahoma Watch • Landlords Are Failing To Provide Essential Services, But Tenants Have Little Recourse • "I Can’t Believe This is Ours." OKCPS Opens New High School on City’s South Side. - Oklahoma Watch • Here’s Why Oklahoma Electric Bills Are Going Up and It’s Not Just Data Centers - Oklahoma Watch • The Secret Documents: Attorneys Unveil Insurance Scheme - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Kids Use Drugs at Higher Rates Than the National Average. A New Initiative Wants to Change That. • Is Oklahoma among the states with the shortest life expectancies for women? - Oklahoma Watch • From the Mississippi Miracle to Consolidation and Cursive: Fact-Checking the Oklahoma State Superintendent Runoff Debate • Utility Shock, Housing Protections and Juvenile Murder Laws • Tax Hikes, Democrat Donations and Defending Trump: Fact-Checking Claims Made in Runoff Election Ads • Who's Calling? • Oklahoma State Auditor Flags $25 Million in Questionable Federal Spending Across Three Agencies • Are major Medicaid cuts mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act scheduled to take effect after the 2026 Midterm Elections? - Oklahoma Watch • As Voters Back Political Newcomers, Mazzei Secures GOP Nomination for Governor - Oklahoma Watch • Youth Prevention, Debating Education and Governor Ad Blitz • “It Literally Saved My Life”: Norman’s A Better Way Program Will Be Shut Down • Is aluminum infinitely recyclable? • TSET Investment Policy on Oklahoma Values Draws Legal Questions • $50 and a Bus Ticket • Oklahoma’s Teacher Certification Pass Rates Range From 100% to 15%. The Data Has Problems Too. • Is human-caused air pollution responsible for more than five times as many deaths as homicide in the United States? • Stitt’s Tenure Ban Is Costing Oklahoma’s Rural Universities Their Top Candidates • Prison Call Centers, Norman’s Homeless Program and Statewide Audit Red Flags • Stillwater Sued to Fix Remington Ranch; Competing Bankruptcies Froze the Case • Are there maternity care deserts in Oklahoma? • Do Canadian investors own more agricultural land in Oklahoma than Chinese investors? • Does Oklahoma have among the highest rates of rape? • “It’s Hard to Stay Afloat”: Oklahoma Borrowers Describe Life Under the New Student Loan System • Oklahoma's Only Public Liberal Arts College Is at War With Itself - Oklahoma Watch • Eye on Oklahoma: Student Loan Struggles • An Oklahoma Scholarship Program Has Oversight Gaps; Now It’s the Model for a Federal Program • Congress Passed the Biggest Housing Bill in Decades, but Oklahoma Advocates Say the State Still Has Work to Do - Oklahoma Watch • Edmond Schools Renewed Administrator Contracts, Then Eliminated Their Jobs, Leaving Taxpayers to Cover the Settlements • 10,000 Texts per Hour: How Campaigns Are Reaching Oklahoma Voters Whether They Like It or Not • In Reversal, Oklahoma Medicaid Agency Plans $218 Million in Provider Cuts • “More People Sick or Dying”: After Five Years of Sterile Syringe Distributions, Harm Reduction Law Set to Expire - Oklahoma Watch • Housing Voucher Inspections Are Slowing Oklahoma City’s Effort to Close Encampments • A Transmission Line Built to Fix Grid Congestion Has Become Oklahoma’s Hottest Data Center Address • Does Oklahoma produce nearly three times more energy than it consumes? • Oklahoma Supreme Court Signals the Way Forward on State Farm While Denying Drummond’s Intervention • Long Story Short: Outside Political Money & Oklahoma’s Frozen AI Legislation • Oklahoma Bail Bond Scammers Are Calling Families Within Minutes of an Arrest. Nobody Can Stop Them. • Freight, Bridges, Rail and Transit: How the BUILD America 250 Act Could Reshape Oklahoma • OKC Evictions Have Doubled in a Decade - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Holding Back on AI Regulations Amid Trump’s Order for States Not to Stifle the New Technology • Trump-Backed Pastor Expected to Drop Out of Oklahoma House Race - Oklahoma Watch • Incumbency, Presidential Endorsements Beneficial in Oklahoma’s Primary Election - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Helter Smelter, Jail Visitations and Norman’s Homelessness Crisis • https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/06/16/election-results/ • Outside Money Ad Blitz Targets Oklahoma Legislative Candidates • Republican Primaries for Governor, Attorney General Drive Record Outside Spending • Candidates Weigh Hypothetical Jail Time for Insurance Executives • With Assist From Trump Administration, GRDA Sticks With Coal Power • The Quiet Supporters of Inola’s Aluminum Smelter Are Running the School District and Career Tech Center • Long Story Short: A Cannabis Crash, The Inola Smelter and A Treasurer’s Commute • Would SQ 832 make it more difficult for businesses to continue to claim tax breaks for the number of employees they have on government assistance programs? • Have 70% of casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war been caused by drones, as Rep. Tom Cole claimed? • “That’s Not a Visit”: How Pricey Video Calls Replaced Human Contact in Oklahoma Jails • https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/06/08/three-cities-three-approaches-how-oklahomas-homeless-encampment-sweeps-played-out-differently/ • Did Oklahoma recently pass a law that requires any new data center using 75 or more megawatts to pay their own infrastructure costs and give 60 days notice before buying land? - Oklahoma Watch • Insurance Department’s Public Hearing Could Give Homeowners a Voice • As Mazzei Changes Tone on Smelter Project, Drummond Moves to Block It • Do prices for identical services by the same doctor increase by up to four times when hospitals acquire physicians’ offices, as Rep. Kevin Hern claimed? • Long Story Short: A Panhandle Tragedy, Reading Overhauls and The Cost of Play • Oklahoma Treasurer Using Unclaimed Property Office As Commuting Hub - Oklahoma Watch • Out-of-State Group Tests Oklahoma Law With Cruise for Political Donation Sweepstakes - Oklahoma Watch • “Covered Up Quick”: How a Fatal Panhandle Crash Involving a Drug Task Force Officer Was Investigated • Reading Reforms Meant to Duplicate the “Mississippi Miracle” Are Now Up to Elementary Schools to Implement • Growers Say Oklahoma’s Cannabis Bonanza is Going to Pot • The Treasurer, the Whistleblower, and the Eviction Engine • Were 150,000 – 250,000 noncitizens paroled into the United States per week under the Biden Administration? • Is it illegal to take native goose eggs? • Federal Bill Would Ban Stay-to-Play and Force Private Equity Out of Youth Sports • Automatic Expungement, Easier Medical Parole and Better Good-Time Credits: Oklahoma’s Criminal Justice Reforms • Oklahoma “Joan of Arc” Waged Prescient State Farm Battle • Election Year Politics Killed Oklahoma's Eviction Reform Bills, Advocates Say • Long Story Short: The Funding Paradox and The Soybean Squeeze • TSET Investment Consultant Partnered with Russ Allies During Bid Process • Were all 36 votes against a recently passed bill that bans child marriage cast by Republican lawmakers? • Is about 80% of the cotton and 40% of the winter wheat raised in the United States exported? • Campaign Contribution May Have Scuttled Investment Advisory Bid • Oklahoma's Education Overhaul: What's Changing in Schools Next Year - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Abolitionists, Assets, and the Minimum Wage • Does America spend nearly double per individual with worse health outcomes when compared to similarly developed countries, as Rep. Josh Breechen claimed? - Oklahoma Watch • Record Highs, Bottom Rankings: Oklahoma’s Education Spending Gap Explained • Trade War, Fertilizer Tariffs, Strait of Hormuz: How Global Events Are Crushing Oklahoma Farm Margins • From Norman to the State GOP: How the Abolitionist Movement is Capturing Oklahoma’s Republican Party • Did a judge rule that Oklahoma’s corporations are entitled to a refund for the overturned Trump tariffs? • Drummond Blocks Contract for Governor's Former Business Partner - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Red Flags and Silent Journals • What to Know About State Question 832 and Gradually Raising Oklahoma’s Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour • Is the life expectancy for Americans 5-10 years less than that of similarly developed countries, as Rep. Breechen claimed? • Oklahoma Falling Behind 40 States in Getting College Stopouts Back to Class • Facing Financial Pressure, Rural Hospitals Adapt to Survive • Judge Moves Epic Charter Schools Embezzlement Case Forward • Is Oklahoma a stop-and-identify state? • Three Parties, One Dead Child: The Failures That Led to Locklynn McGuire's Death - Oklahoma Watch • A Former Chief Justice Battles State Farm as Sitting Justices Weigh Insurance Giant’s Fate - Oklahoma Watch • Are 50% of teens in America obese, as Rep. Brecheen claimed? • “Don’t Believe Anything the Sheriff’s Office Tells You”: A Family’s Search for Answers • No Free Lunches: At Least 11 Republican Candidates Have Pledged to Reject Lobbyist Meals and Gifts • Are 3 in 100 immigrants granted asylum? • National Preschool Enrollment Surged Last Year; Oklahoma’s Continued to Fall • New Questions Emerge Over Oklahoma’s Invest in Oklahoma Contract After Shared Lobbyist Discovered • There’s Something Toxic in the Oklahoma Air • As Hollywood Loses Ground, Oklahoma Plays the Long Game • State Farm Told a Retired Judge His Adjuster Report Was a Corporate Secret; He Lawyered Up • Oklahoma’s Landlord-Tenant Act Has Seldom Changed In Its Nearly 50 Year History • Is the percentage of income spent on groceries per household in Oklahoma among the highest in the nation? • Oklahoma Lawmakers Move to Close Revolving Door Loophole Exposed by Former Prison Chief’s Job Switch • IRS Flags Potential Excess Benefit Transactions at Epic Charter Schools, State Criminal Trial Looms • Has the Trump Administration recovered more than 160,000 children who were trafficked or lost under the Biden Administration, as Secretary Mullin claimed? • Expert: Power-Hungry Inola Smelter With Unclear Plans Will Enable Isolationism • CompSource Conversion Plan Dealt Blow With Restraining Order - Oklahoma Watch • From 50 Cases Per Month to 50 Per Week: Oklahoma’s System for Child Sex Abuse Is Being Overwhelmed • “A Rat’s Nest of Fraud and Deceit”: New Lawsuit Adds to Vesta Realty CEO’s Legal Troubles • Is Oklahoma ranked among the states with the highest rates of domestic violence? • Rising from the ashes: Oklahoma families start over despite struggles with obtaining FEMA grants • Choose Your Own Voters: Republican Lawmakers Send High-Stakes Ballot Initiatives To Low-Turnout Election - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Editors Reflect on the Challenges Faced by Small-Town Newspapers • National Landlord Left Oklahoma Family in Barely Habitable Home, Then Evicted Them for Withholding Rent • Long Story Short: The Republican Future & Bicycle Busts • Homelessness Among Families with Children is Rising and It’s Expected to Get Worse • Battle Over Cryptic State Farm Documents Reaches OK Supreme Court • A Crude Ad About a Banana — and a Primary That Could Tell Us Where the Republican Party is Headed - Oklahoma Watch • Ad Blitz: Parents Targeted in Push for Early Literacy Overhaul - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Eye Grand Bargain on Tobacco Taxes As Deadline Looms • Still Waiting: Oklahoma’s Mental Health System Leaves Defendants Waiting in Jail Despite Court Order to Fix Delays - Oklahoma Watch • Duncan Bicycle Stops Pit City Ordinances Against State Law • Senate Advances Mullin’s Nomination - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma School District at Center of First-in-Nation ICE Agreement Controversy Denies Signing Anything - Oklahoma Watch • Nicotine Products in Oklahoma Prisons Raise Revenue, Public Health Concerns • Sealed Records, 11-Minute Hearings, Hidden Conflicts: Inside Oklahoma’s Broken Guardianship System • OCAST Director Resigns Suddenly After Meeting With Stitt Officials • Is Oklahoma No. 3 in the nation for law enforcement turning people over to ICE? • Is it legal to lower the minimum wage in Oklahoma? • Did tariffs cost Oklahoma families more than $1,000 in 2025? • Are Oklahoma lawmakers considering a bill that would ban churches and charities from providing food, shelter, or clothing, to unauthorized immigrants or asylum seekers? • Do 70% of immigrants deported from ICE custody have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions, as Sen. Mullin claimed? • Eviction Filings Push Oklahoma Children Into Chronic Absenteeism and Academic Failure, Data Shows • Oklahoma Could Collect $175 Million Annually From Federal Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Oklahoma Watch • Behind the Rankings: How WalletHub Determined Oklahoma is 50th in Education • Drummond Sues State Board Over Handling of Jewish Charter School Application - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Vesta Realty Rental Crisis - Oklahoma Watch • "America, Not Americans": Inola Residents Say Trump's Industrial Push Is Coming at Their Expense - Oklahoma Watch • Rep. Kevin Hern Appears to Have Tardy Stock Disclosures; His Office Disputes He’s Late • Mulready Approves CompSource Conversion Plan • Is the ICE budget for converting warehouses to detention facilities more than Oklahoma’s total annual spending? • Oil Tycoon and GOP Donor Harold Hamm Asked Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt for Senate Appointment - Oklahoma Watch • Tenant Problems Pile Up At Tulsa-Based Vesta Realty • Mullin to Replace Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Ranks Third in Fatal Police Encounters • Rent-To-Own Scheme Highlights Lack of Tenant Protections - Oklahoma Watch • After Years of Stalemate, Lawmakers Advance Bail Reform Proposals - Oklahoma Watch • Twin Chickasha Hearings Reveal Agents Knew of Hail Claim Practice • Native American Leaders Are Furious With Trump’s Tribal Education Shakeup • From Top Half to Near Last: How Oklahoma's Schools Lost Three Decades of Ground and What Can Be Learned from Mississippi - Oklahoma Watch • Bad Landlords, No Registry: How a 2014 Oklahoma Law Protects Problem Property Owners • Audio Stories: February 16, 2026 - Oklahoma Watch • Cigars, Bourbon and Burnt Bacon: How Two Unlikely Allies Are Getting Government Funded • TSET Investment Board Adopts Anti-ESG Policies Backed by State Treasurer • Republicans Push Back on Data Centers in Oklahoma, Other States • Kevin Stitt Is ‘Excited to Go’ to the White House Dinner He’s Been Fighting With Trump Over - Oklahoma Watch • Tulsa Roof Claim Provides Insight Into Alleged State Farm Scheme - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Federal Health Care Windfall Meets Fiscal Warnings in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • More Than 30 Oklahoma Agencies Sign Immigration Enforcement Agreements - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: February 9, 2026 - Oklahoma Watch • Federal Health Care Windfall Meets Fiscal Warnings in Oklahoma • Do 13 states require fully-insured health insurance plans to cover abortion, as Sen. Lankford claimed? - Oklahoma Watch • Municipal Voters Encounter Scarce Access to Campaign Finance Records - Oklahoma Watch • Inside the ICE Detention System: How Oklahoma Facilities Use Legal Limbo to Pressure Deportations • Oklahoma Becomes ICE Arrest Hub as Federal Policy Drives Enforcement Explosion • Second Stillwater Teen Faces Rape Charges as Unequal Treatment Questions Mount • State Farm Denies Roof Claim of Agency Employee Dying of Cancer - Oklahoma Watch • From Breakfast Burritos to Living Wages: How Oklahoma Is Fixing Attorney Deserts in Child Welfare Cases • Gubernatorial Candidates Rely on Personal Money to Launch Campaigns • Bill Would Let Churches Build Affordable Housing Without Zoning Restrictions • Long Story Short: Oklahoma Farmers Face Uncertain Future as Comprehensive Farm Bill Splinters - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma’s Winter Storm Uri Lawsuits Coming Out Of Cold Storage • Lawmakers Wonder if State Farm is Writing Oklahoma Insurance Law - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Farmers Face Uncertain Future as Comprehensive Farm Bill Splinters - Oklahoma Watch • OU-Tulsa School of Community Medicine Ends Contracts, Shutters Clinic • Birth Rates, School Choice Contribute to Falling Enrollment - Oklahoma Watch • How Oklahoma’s Domestic Violence Sentencing Law is Failing in Practice - Oklahoma Watch • Native Americans Are Getting Swept Up by ICE; Republicans Say ‘There Will be Mistakes’ - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: January 19th, 2026 - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Eye Parole, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform • State Farm Delays Left Dying Woman in Home With Holes, Hose for Water • Are most hospitals in Tulsa controlled by the Catholic Church? • Oklahoma Legislative Leaders Keep Power Brokers in Place as They Run for Statewide Office • Poll Reveals Overwhelming Support for the Right to Sue Insurance Companies • Is Operation SAFE state-led rather than city-led? • Lawmakers Seek Balance in Oklahoma’s Landlord-Tenant Act • Oklahoma Parole Rates Drop When a Board Member is Absent • Epic Investigation Finds Poor Budgeting, But No Misappropriated Money - Oklahoma Watch • Families Speak Out in Wake of News of State Farm Hail Scheme • From Promise to Patchwork: How Oklahoma’s Domestic Violence Sentencing Law is Failing in Practice • From Surplus to Crisis: Epic Charter's Budget Collapse Prompts Forensic Investigation - Oklahoma Watch • Journalist Claims Officials are Ignoring Flood Danger on the Arkansas River • Oklahoma Ranks Third for Caregiver Burden as Families Struggle with Eldercare • Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data • Attorney General: Only the DOC Director Can Refer Prisoners For Medical Parole • Judge Allows Attorney General to Intervene in State Farm Hail Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch • Freshman GOP Lawmaker Finds Statewide Backers For Save Oklahoma Plan - Oklahoma Watch • Too Little, Too Late, Too Weak: Critics React to Proposed Insurance Legislation - Oklahoma Watch • Are Oklahoma home insurance rates among the highest in the nation? • Oklahoma’s Prison Population Climbed in 2025 • Inside a High School Project Tackling Homelessness - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma's Campaign Finance Database is Back Online - Oklahoma Watch • State Farm Dodged Billions in 2018 Settlement, Now Faces Fresh RICO Charges in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers Push Eviction Reform - Oklahoma Watch • Trailer Park Owner Hikes Rents, Forces Tenants Into Rent-to-Own Deals • Hochatown Fights for Its Own ZIP Code • Department of Corrections Refuses to Release Body Camera Footage • Stitt Calls Out Trump Over Cuts to Wind Energy Projects • Audio Stories: December 1, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Do states with fewer gun laws and more guns have higher suicide rates? • Were grocery and convenience stores in Oklahoma prohibited from selling beverages above 3.2 percent alcohol content before 2016? • Federal Benefit Cuts Push Oklahoma Families Into Eviction Crisis • State Delays Push Data Center Developers to Private Land • Counting the Invisible: Why Rural Homelessness Stays Hidden • AG Intervenes in State Farm Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch • SNAP Cuts Contributed to Evictions Across Oklahoma • Interior Department Takes On Tribal Education • “It Made Me Feel Like a Sucker”: Long-Running Lawsuits Accuse State Farm of Billion-Dollar Hail Scheme • CompSource Flub Raises Questions About a Secretive Reorganization Plan • TSET Investors Board Puts Asset Managers On Notice In Anti-ESG Push • Domestic Violence Board Chairman Resigns in Protest • Potential Oligopoly: A Deep Dive Into Competition in Homeowners Insurance - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner’s Competitive Market Claims • Oklahoma Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Initiative Petition Bill • Long Story Short: Former Lawyer’s Aggressive Tactics Target Oklahoma School District Amid Assault Claims - Oklahoma Watch • Brittany Sanchez gave birth to her first child while shackled to a hospital bed. Despite another person's confession, Sanchez served multiple sentences and spent years torn from her children. • Are Oklahoma lawmakers pursuing the criminalization of parents who travel out of state seeking gender-affirming care for their children? - Oklahoma Watch • Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch • "Destroy to Fix": Former Lawyer's Aggressive Tactics Target Oklahoma School District Amid Assault Claims - Oklahoma Watch • Was Oklahoma’s constitution the most socialist in America when it was ratified? - Oklahoma Watch • Grimm Eviction Highlights Legal Representation Gap • Native American Tribes Are Struggling in Wake of SNAP Uncertainty • Has the Oklahoma state government been a Republican trifecta for the past fourteen years? - Oklahoma Watch • Isolation, Illness and Guns: Why More Older Oklahomans Are Dying by Suicide - Oklahoma Watch • Reduced Oklahoma Prison Phone Call Rates Aren’t Coming Back • Broken Promises and Broken Ceilings: Renters Discover Oklahoma’s Weak Tenant Protections • Long Story Short: Former Corrections Director Approved Million Dollar Deal With AI Company, Then Went to Work For Them - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: October 27, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Tulsa’s Blue Team Builds Trust, Breaks Cycle of Chronic Homelessness - Oklahoma Watch • Former Corrections Director Approved Million Dollar Deal With AI Company, Then Went to Work For Them • Are rural areas more likely to be harmed by reductions to SNAP? • Head Start Programs Are Closing Down as Shutdown Funding Lapses Grow • Long Story Short: Lawmakers Get Earful As Oklahoma Home Insurance Rates Skyrocket - Oklahoma Watch • Is Tulsa among the most ozone-polluted metropolitan areas in the country? • Do One in Six Oklahomans receive SNAP food benefits? • Three Lawyers File More Than Half of Central Oklahoma’s 18,000 Annual Eviction Cases • Mullin and Cortez Mastro File Bill to Allow Marshalls to Help with MMIP • Lawmakers Get Earful As Oklahoma Home Insurance Rates Skyrocket • OKC Police Are Withholding Reports, Alarming Transparency Advocates • Republicans Will Need to Extend Their Funding Patch Deadline Soon, Cole Says - Oklahoma Watch • Families Outraged After OSU Official’s Son Spared Prison in Sexual Assault Case - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Critics Say CompSource Plan Will Hurt Policyholders - Oklahoma Watch • Does Reworld, which seeks to burn untreated medical waste at their Tulsa plant, have a history of legal issues in other states? • Oklahoma Predator Hunters Face Felony Charges • Parole Board Seeks Binding Opinion on Medical Parole Statute • Critics Say CompSource Plan Will Hurt Policyholders • Lawmakers Aren’t Sure if Tribal Programs are Safe From OMB Shutdown Cuts • No Plans to Distribute Bibles to Public School Classrooms, New Superintendent Says • Is Oklahoma ranked among the worst states for child welfare? - Oklahoma Watch • Raising the Minimum Wage Could Reduce Eviction Rates, Data Shows • Drummond Takes Mulready to Task Over Homeowners Rates • Stitt Becomes First Republican Governor to Break With Trump on National Guard Deployments - Oklahoma Watch • Education Department Releases Student Test Scores: What the Data Show • Tulsa’s Eviction Rate Now Lower Than Oklahoma City’s - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Prisons One Step Closer to Blocking Contraband Cell Phone Signals • Dozens of Lawsuits and Hundreds of TV Appearances: A Look Back at Superintendent Walters Tenure - Oklahoma Watch • Tribe Claims Lawmaker Is Blocking It From Getting Its Land - Oklahoma Watch • Counties Await Guidance on Renewing State Question 781 Programs - Oklahoma Watch • Seized for Seizing: Lack of Training Endangers Oklahomans with Epilepsy • Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case • Operation SAFE Displacements Add Barriers to Resources • Did Ryan Walters appoint the creator of the Libs of TikTok account, whose posts have led to bomb threats against Oklahoma schools, to a state library advisory committee? • Are there state requirements for homeschooling in Oklahoma? • Are Oklahoma teacher salaries among the lowest? • Audio Stories: September 15, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Full Court Press: How OSSAA’s Latest Legal Loss Extends Basketball Controversy - Oklahoma Watch • Is Edmond among the best school districts in the nation? - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Treasurer Pushes Values Test for Tobacco Endowment Managers - Oklahoma Watch • Inside the Facebook Groups Changing Dating in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: With Little Notice, Oklahoma Prison Phone Call Rates More Than Double - Oklahoma Watch • Anti-Trans Ads Already Making An Appearance In Oklahoma’s Republican Gubernatorial Primary • Land Commissioners Turn Away Projects Amid Anti-Renewable Pressures - Oklahoma Watch • With Little Notice, Oklahoma Prison Phone Call Rates More Than Double • Lack of Affordable Housing Prices Out Oklahoma Renters - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Oklahoma Unprepared for Looming Guardianship Crisis - Oklahoma Watch • Judge Attempts to Quash Press Investigation With Gag Order • Oklahoma Unprepared for Looming Guardianship Crisis • Long Story Short: As Oklahoma Prisons Embrace AI, Critics Warn of Risks - Oklahoma Watch • Education Department Forced to Release Key Card Data for Matt Langston • Are Oklahoma public schools ranked almost last in per-pupil funding? • Thousands of State Employees Still Working Remotely • Oklahoma Backs Trump’s Call to Put Disaster Response Under State Control • Have the reports of explicit images displayed on Ryan Walter’s office television during a meeting been proven impossible to have happened by OMES and the sheriff’s office, as he claimed? • Long Story Short: Oklahoma Treasurer Making Another Attempt to Change Corporate Policies - Oklahoma Watch • Walters’ Record Making Education a Key Part of Gubernatorial Race • As Oklahoma Prisons Embrace AI, Critics Warn of Risks • Oklahoma Patient Pipeline: How an Insurance Scheme Brought Hundreds to California for Drug Treatment - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: CoreCivic Advertises Jobs at Vacant Prisons in Watonga and Sayre - Oklahoma Watch • Proposed HUD Timeline Puts Working Families At Risk Of Eviction • Does Oklahoma rely on states such as California for federal tax dollars that fund education and healthcare? - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: August 11, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Tulsa, OKC Resort to Hostile Architecture to Deter Homeless Encampments - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: August 4, 2025 • Out-of-State Landlord Buys With Tax Credits, Boots Tenants • Tulsa, OKC Resort to Hostile Architecture to Deter Homeless Encampments • Audio Stories: July 28, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Mullin Violated the STOCK Act by Failing to Disclose Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Trades • As Oklahoma Prison Transfers Slow, Jail Backlogs Grow • Former Governor George Nigh with the UCO Stampede of Sound • Predator Hunters’ Tactics Draw Fans, but Concern Police and Advocates • Constituent Presses Rep. Stephanie Bice to Hold In-Person Town Halls - Oklahoma Watch • Did President Barack Obama Oversee the Jeffrey Epstein Plea Agreement as Sen. Markwayne Mullin Claimed? • Tom Cole’s Powerful Spot on the Appropriations Committee Is Motivating Him to Stay in Congress - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: July 21, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Anonymous Source Sheds Light on Panhandle Police Impunity - Oklahoma Watch • Did Ryan Walters receive $120,000 from a non-profit funded by school privatization advocates while serving as the Secretary of Education? - Oklahoma Watch • Failed Seizure of a Vulnerable Vet at Oklahoma’s Largest Hospital Hints at Crisis to Come for Aging Population - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma District Attorneys Gain Ally in Glossip Case • Did Oklahoma turn down federal money to feed low-income kids two summers in a row? - Oklahoma Watch • Historic Cuts to SNAP Put 131,000 Oklahomans at Risk of Losing Benefits - Oklahoma Watch • Missing, Murdered Native American Cases Delayed as Police Struggle to Work Together - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Oklahoma Has Nation’s Highest Average Homeowners Insurance Premiums - Oklahoma Watch • Textbook Publishers Reveal How They Incorporated Controversial New Standards • Audio Stories: July 14, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Anonymous Source Sheds Light on Panhandle Police Impunity • Data Ties Childhood Evictions to Chronic Absenteeism in Schools • Oklahoma Has Nation's Highest Average Homeowners Insurance Premiums - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: July 7, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Big Energy Companies at Forefront of State Emissions Rebates • FEMA Cuts Sink Norman’s Automated Flood Warning Plan - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Senators Weigh in on EPA’s Contrails Report • Audio Stories: June 30, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: After Two Years of Debate, Schools Get Months to Ban Phones - Oklahoma Watch • ODOC Fights to Prevent Medical Parole Hearing for Dying Prisoner - Oklahoma Watch • Do states with fewer gun laws and more guns have higher suicide rates? - Oklahoma Watch • Trump Administration Wants to Close Down Key Weather Labs Nationwide • Cell, no! After Two Years of Debate, Schools Get Months to Ban Phones - Oklahoma Watch • A Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Is Pushing to Make Healthier Food More Accessible to Tribes - Oklahoma Watch • State’s Prison Food Contract Canceled Over Nutritional Deficiencies - Oklahoma Watch • Are rural hospitals in Oklahoma at risk of closing? - Oklahoma Watch • AG Opinion: Door Badge Swipes are Public Records • Long Story Short: RFK Jr. Brings MAHA to Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • Get Out! Oklahoma’s Eviction Timeline is One of the Fastest in the Nation • RFK Jr. Brings MAHA to Oklahoma • Is Oklahoma’s homicide rate among the top 20 states? • Lawmakers Don’t Know Why Trump Keeps Denying Disaster Mitigation Grants • Oklahoma Police Continue to Seize Millions From Motorists • Audio Stories: June 16, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Parents Swallow Junk Fees to Pay for School Lunches - Oklahoma Watch • Few Shareholders Support Oklahoma Treasurer’s Anti-DEI Push - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma’s Prison Food Service Contract Voided - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Resignations and layoffs at the state’s largest online school - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Democrat Kalyn Free Pushed for New DNC Elections — And She Wants a Seat at the Table - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: June 9, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Federal Lawmakers are Steering Clear of State Politics When It Comes to the Gubernatorial Race - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Christian School’s Runoff Email Sparks Debate Over Partisan Lines - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma’s Poverty Crisis Deepens as Lawmakers Clash Over Solutions - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Inks $74 Million Deal to Privatize Prison Food Service - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: June 2, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Say Trump’s Budget Would Put Native American Health Care at Risk • Double Jeopardy: Two Levels of Justice in Rural Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • Did the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre ever directly receive any legal settlement or reparations? - Oklahoma Watch • An Egregious Backlog: Interior Department Searches for Ways to Speed Up Native American Probate Court - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Enacts Fines and Fees Reform, Tougher Sentencing Laws - Oklahoma Watch • Audio Stories: May 22, 2025 - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Oklahoma’s Pending Purchase of Lawton Prison Brings Hope of Reduced Violence - Oklahoma Watch • What’s Next? Lawmakers, Policy Experts Say They Will Continue Fight To Reduce Evictions • Kidnapped Twice: Inconsistent Police Discretion Compromises Enforcement of Rapidly Changing Cannabis Laws • Republicans Say the Fight for St. Isidore Isn’t Over - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma’s Pending Purchase of Lawton Prison Brings Hope of Reduced Violence • Split Decision Halts Oklahoma’s Plan to Open Religious Charter School - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma considering a bill that would alter the validity of collected signatures in its initiative petition process? - Oklahoma Watch • Tom Cole Fights Against EPA Budget Cuts for His District - Oklahoma Watch • These Tribes Want a Key Piece of Oklahoma Land Returned - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt Vetoes Bill That Would Have Slowed Eviction Process - Oklahoma Watch • Hail No! Hail Storms Do Not Explain Oklahoma’s Outrageous Homeowners’ Insurance Rates - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Tom Cole’s Bipartisan Reputation Gets Put to the Test - Oklahoma Watch • Tom Cole’s Bipartisan Reputation Gets Put to the Test in Trump’s Partisan Washington - Oklahoma Watch • Does Oklahoma's HB1217 ban drag? - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Agencies Publish Private School Tax Credit Recipients Under Transparency Law - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Mental Health Agency Warns of Payroll Issues Amid Cash Crunch - Oklahoma Watch • Can measles “reset” the immune system’s previously built immunities? - Oklahoma Watch • Mental Health Agency Warns of Payroll Issues Amid Cash Crunch - Oklahoma Watch • Was Oklahoma recently ranked No.44 for quality of life? - Oklahoma Watch • The Supreme Court Had Classroom Culture Wars on Top of Mind in Oral Arguments - Oklahoma Watch • ‘A Real Good Test For the First Amendment’ Comes to the Supreme Court - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Prisoner Perseveres in Pro Se Wrongful Detention Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch • Republicans Split on St. Isidore - Oklahoma Watch • Walters’ New Hires Steeped in Politics, Not Education - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: OSDE Personnel Payments Raise Questions - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Treasurer’s Office Faces Scrutiny Over Use of Signal in Anti-ESG Coordination - Oklahoma Watch • Are two of Oklahoma’s members of Congress ranked among the wealthiest in the nation? - Oklahoma Watch • Did the Oklahoma State Board of Education pass a rule requiring teachers to take and pass the naturalization test? - Oklahoma Watch • Does Oklahoma rank #1 in profit per employee among Fortune 500 companies? - Oklahoma Watch • Frank Lucas is Trying to Exempt Oklahoma’s Aviation Academy from Government Shutdowns - Oklahoma Watch • Retired Cops Sound Alarm on Pension Board Shift - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma among the states with the lowest wages? - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Sheridan Church’s Tax Status Holds Up, Despite Unabashed Political Influence - Oklahoma Watch • Rep. Tom Cole Says DOGE Is ‘Pretty Responsive’ to His Concerns - Oklahoma Watch • Was Oklahoma once ranked as the worst state in the nation for domestic violence? - Oklahoma Watch • This Oklahoma Church is Hosting Some of the Biggest Names in Republican Politics - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Forced Housing, Hidden Kickbacks: How Stay-to-Play Squeezes Sports Parents - Oklahoma Watch • Do Native American tribal members in Oklahoma pay taxes? - Oklahoma Watch • Competent to Die: State's Arbitrary IQ Rule Defies Scientific Recommendation - Oklahoma Watch • Court Blocks Superintendent Walters’ Bible Purchase, For Now - Oklahoma Watch • Ponca City Settles Open Records Case - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma’s health care system ranked among the lowest in the nation? - Oklahoma Watch • Bill to Boost Rural Mental Health and Diversion Programs Advances - Oklahoma Watch • Board of Education Approves Controversial Social Studies Standards - Oklahoma Watch • Are Afghan parolees such as the one that plotted a terrorist attack in Oklahoma vetted before entering the US? - Oklahoma Watch • Neighbors Object to Youth Homeless Shelter Expansion - Oklahoma Watch • NOTUS Launches “Washington Bureau Initiative” to Serve Local Communities With Major Grant From Google News Initiative - Allbritton Journalism Institute • Senators Want to Know if DOGE’s FAA Layoffs Will Make the Skies Less Safe - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmaker Sues Governor Over State Employee Return-To-Work Policy - Oklahoma Watch • Education Department Seeks to Buy Bible Lessons for Elementary Kids - Oklahoma Watch • Markwayne Mullin Has Made Trump Administration Nominees His Social Media Brand - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma ranked #4 in the nation in GDP growth? - Oklahoma Watch • Ryan Walters Is Trying to Out-MAGA His Peers and It’s Making Things Awkward in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Traffic Scheme Nets Texas County DA’s Office Millions - Oklahoma Watch • Court Fines and Fees Reform Has Broad Support, But Fiscal Questions Persist - Oklahoma Watch • HUD Funding Delays Fuel Oklahoma Housing Concerns - Oklahoma Watch • Traffic Scheme Nets Texas County DA’s Office Millions - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Looks to Privatize Prison Food Service - Oklahoma Watch • Despite Growing Homelessness, Oklahoma Lawmakers Look to Punitive Measures - Oklahoma Watch • Stuck at the Bottom: Oklahoma Reading and Math Scores Stagnate - Oklahoma Watch • Federal Funding Freeze, Payment Portal Outage Leave Oklahoma Nonprofits Confused, Concerned - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Housing Insecurity Forcing Oklahoma Seniors To Move - Oklahoma Watch • Criminal Justice Bills to Watch in This Year’s Legislature - Oklahoma Watch • Housing Insecurity Forcing Oklahoma Seniors To Move - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Oklahoma State Guard Plan Unveiled - Oklahoma Watch • Florida Couple Accuses Berry-Rock Homes of Fraud in Rent-to-Own Program - Oklahoma Watch • Education Bills to Watch in This Year’s Legislature - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Maintains Nation’s Fourth-Highest Imprisonment Rate - Oklahoma Watch • For Some Oklahomans, Eviction is a Death Sentence - Oklahoma Watch • State Housing Assessment Shows Small Homes In Demand - Oklahoma Watch • As Oklahoma Executions Continue, New Death Sentences Grow Rare - Oklahoma Watch • Proposed Rules Would Require Students to Prove Citizenship or Legal Immigration Status - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: HUD Ends Section 8 at Duncan Apartments, Residents Told To Leave - Oklahoma Watch • Are undocumented immigrants filling Oklahoma prisons? - Oklahoma Watch • HUD Ends Section 8 at Duncan Apartments, Residents Told To Leave - Oklahoma Watch • Parole Rate on the Rise - Oklahoma Watch • Berry-Rock and Beyond: How Ex-Secretary’s Investment Ties Sparked Lawsuits, Audits and Controversy - Oklahoma Watch • State’s New Mental Health Center Faces Huge Construction Cost Overrun - Oklahoma Watch • Rent-To-Buy Company Has Big State Investment, Limited Customer Options - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: A new open primaries ballot initiative hopes for 2026 - Oklahoma Watch • Is birth control a form of abortion? - Oklahoma Watch • Open Primary Supporters Launch Ballot Initiative Effort - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Superintendent Ryan Walters’ new video message mandate - Oklahoma Watch • Straight-Party Voting Declines - Oklahoma Watch • Education Department Abruptly Cancels Search for Bible Vendor - Oklahoma Watch • 2024 Newsmatch Fall Donation Campign - Oklahoma Watch • Trump, Down-Ballot Republicans Dominate in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • OKC Fails Housing Inspections, Tulsa Embraces HUD Transition - Oklahoma Watch • Political Spending Accelerates Ahead of Election Day - Oklahoma Watch • Legislative Watchdog Details Lack of Communication in Sending Funds to Schools - Oklahoma Watch • Despite Legal Challenges and Exemptions, GOP Lawmakers Remain Committed to Anti-ESG Law - Oklahoma Watch • What to Know About State Question 833 and Authorizing Public Infrastructure Districts - Oklahoma Watch • Families and Teachers Ask Supreme Court to Stop Superintendent’s Push for Bibles in Public Schools - Oklahoma Watch • Grand Jury: State’s Handling of GEER Programs Troubling, But Not Criminal - Oklahoma Watch • What to Know About State Question 834 and Prohibiting Noncitizens From Voting in Local Elections - Oklahoma Watch • Low-income Renters Have Little Recourse Against Bad Landlords - Oklahoma Watch • Education Department Updates Bible Plan After Concerns By State Purchasing Agency - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch • Democrat-appointed Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices Targeted In Election Ads - Oklahoma Watch • State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Bets on Body-Worn Cameras to Improve Prison Conditions - Oklahoma Watch • Is more than 20% of Oklahoma’s state revenue from the federal government? - Oklahoma Watch • Collaborative Financing to Fuel Tenant Right-to-Counsel - Oklahoma Watch • Spring Test Scores for Oklahoma Public Schools • Mega Landlord Debarred, Oklahoma Properties Failing - Oklahoma Watch • State Seeks to Decertify Teacher Over 5-Year-Old Instagram Family Photo - Oklahoma Watch • Wisdom of the Nations - Oklahoma Watch • Attorneys Cite Horrifying Details from Jail Video in Refiled Lawsuit Over Shannon Hanchett's Death - Oklahoma Watch • Is it true that fewer than 6 in 10 eligible voters in Oklahoma don't vote? - Oklahoma Watch • U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Oklahoma’s Attempt to Restore Federal Family Planning Funds - Oklahoma Watch • Hinton Reopened its Prison, But It's Not Paying Off - Oklahoma Watch • State Walks Away from Tens of Millions Meant for Needy Families - Oklahoma Watch • In Oklahoma Eviction Court, it’s Women with Children First - Oklahoma Watch • Anything Goes - Oklahoma Watch • Pay or Your Son Dies - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma ranked among the worst states for education? - Oklahoma Watch • Lawsuit Challenging Oklahoma’s Teen Parole Policies Inches Closer to Trial • Tax Credit Program Sparks Statewide Surge in Private School Tuition - Oklahoma Watch • Board Rescinds Contract with Catholic Charter School - Oklahoma Watch • Does 45% of Oklahoma’s energy come from renewable resources? - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Crisis Pregnancy Centers See Big State Funding Boost - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Tenant Unions Give Voice to Renters' Concerns - Oklahoma Watch • Board Could Face Contempt Charges for Ignoring Supreme Court Order - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Western District Court Among the Slowest in the Country, Data Shows - Oklahoma Watch • Sunset of Counselor Corps Leads to Budget Cuts, Staff Reductions - Oklahoma Watch • Have gun ammo vending machines been installed in Oklahoma? - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Oklahoma AG opinion could help groups working with homeless - Oklahoma Watch • First Watch - Stuff You Should Know • Dozens of Counties Don’t Apply for Mental Health and Diversion Grants - Oklahoma Watch • AG Opinion Opens Funding for Eviction Prevention • Long Story Short: Petitioners seek to raise Oklahoma's minimum wage - Oklahoma Watch • State Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Alleging Inhumane Conditions at Hinton Prison - Oklahoma Watch • Cities Addressing Emergencies with More Mental Health Professionals - Oklahoma Watch • Walters Extends PR Contract - Oklahoma Watch • As Eviction Filings Rise, Oklahoma Could Enact Right-to-Counsel Laws - Oklahoma Watch • Camping Bans Found Constitutional Despite Lack of Shelters • Companies Sued By AG Over Natural Gas Spikes Say They Followed Contracts • Corrections Board Greenlights Lawton Prison Contract Extension - Oklahoma Watch • Legal Experts Weigh in On Whether Catholic Charter School Case is Headed to U.S. Supreme Court - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Lawmakers Boost Police Pension System Benefits - Oklahoma Watch • Anti-Camping Law at Odds With Local Initiatives - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma’s Most Violent Prison to End State Contract - Oklahoma Watch • Is the Department of Justice suing Oklahoma’s immigration law for unconstitutionality? - Oklahoma Watch • Voters Oust Embattled Sheriff in McCurtain County - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Boost Police Pension System Benefits - Oklahoma Watch • Outside Spending Soars Ahead of Primary Election - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt Vetoes Legislature’s Limits on State Superintendent's Media Outreach - Oklahoma Watch • Do immigrants have constitutional rights? - Oklahoma Watch • House District 88 Candidates Push for Diversity in Legislature - Oklahoma Watch • Was inflation at 1.4% before President Biden took office? - Oklahoma Watch • State Prison Staff Face Criminal Charges, Litigation For Plotting Prisoner’s Assault - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Give Energy Industry $50 Million In Budget Agreement - Oklahoma Watch • Ryan Walters’ PR Contract Should Be Banned, GOP Lawmaker Says - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Legislative Leaders Strike Budget Deal - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: House Committee Approves Most of Walters’ Controversial Rule Changes - Oklahoma Watch • Memorial Day Weekend Could See Mass Evictions - Oklahoma Watch • Are more than one-third of Oklahoma renters cost-burdened? - Oklahoma Watch • Tenant Ousted After Unexpected Guest Tests Apartment Policies - Oklahoma Watch • Does Oklahoma’s maternal mortality rate exceed the national rate? - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Millions More Go To Oklahoma Hospitals As Managed Care Begins - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Treasurer Adds Bank to Blacklist Weeks After It Sold Higher Ed Bonds - Oklahoma Watch • Key Criminal Justice Bills in Limbo as Session Winds Down - Oklahoma Watch • Millions More Go To Oklahoma Hospitals As Managed Care Begins - Oklahoma Watch • Staff Oversight Lax As Lawton Prisoner Murdered, Left Undetected in Trash Can - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt Signs Hundreds of Bills Into Law as Budget Negotiations Continue - Oklahoma Watch • As Israel-Hamas War Sparks Campus Protests, Oklahoma Higher Education Officials Take Free Speech Training - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma ranked the most business-friendly state? - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: House Rejects Resolution to Change Oklahoma’s Judicial Selection Process - Oklahoma Watch • Last Year’s Teacher Pay Raise Hasn’t Slowed Resignations — Yet - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Prisoners Confined to Shower Stalls Sue Corrections Department - Oklahoma Watch • Prospective Teachers Get Clarity After Questions Swirl About Certification Exam - Oklahoma Watch • How They Voted: House Rejects Resolution to Change Oklahoma’s Judicial Selection Process - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Family Member’s Eviction Attempt Ends In FlamesLong Story Short: - Oklahoma Watch • Has Oklahoma introduced a bill to ban all pride flags? - Oklahoma Watch • Homeless in Oklahoma: Sacrificing healthcare for daily survival - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Attorney General Files Winter Storm Lawsuits Over Natural Gas Prices - Oklahoma Watch • Uncontested: Nearly Half of Legislative Races Have Already Been Decided - Oklahoma Watch • Family Member’s Eviction Attempt Ends In Flames - Oklahoma Watch • Campaign Finance Task Force Take Aims at Outside Spending - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Supreme Court Considers Arguments Over Catholic Charter School - Oklahoma Watch • Tenant Advocates Push for Right to Free Counsel - Oklahoma Watch • Preliminary Hearing Starts for Epic Charter Schools Founders - Oklahoma Watch • AG to Lay Out Evidence in Epic’s Multi-Million Dollar Embezzlement Case - Oklahoma Watch • Legislature Focuses on Budget, Policy at Halfway Point - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Seek Tougher Shoplifting, Domestic Abuse Penalties - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: State Dollars Prop Walters’ National Media Blitz - Oklahoma Watch • Has Oklahoma not seen an increase to its minimum wage since 2008? - Oklahoma Watch • Winter Storm Natural Gas Price Lawsuits Languish - Oklahoma Watch • State Dollars Prop Walters’ National Media Blitz - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Stillwater Schools Settle Sexual Misconduct Suit - Oklahoma Watch • Has Oklahoma’s registered voter turnout rate been 30% in recent elections? - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers Again Take Aim at Ballot Initiatives - Oklahoma Watch • Lawsuit Reveals New Details About Walkout Leader’s Sexting Case - Oklahoma Watch • Breaking Camp: Lawmakers Take Aim at Homeless Encampments on State Land - Oklahoma Watch • Is the Oklahoma legislature considering a bill to compile a database of women who have had abortions? - Oklahoma Watch • Subpar Care Led to Cleveland County Detainee’s Death, Federal Lawsuit Claims - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma’s Foster Family Shortage Forces Children From Their Communities - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Evicted: Thousands of Civil Filings Linger in Records Forever - Oklahoma Watch • Did an Oklahoma survey record the largest number of teacher vacancies in the 2022-23 school year since it began collecting records? - Oklahoma Watch • Medical Debt Bill Advances To House Floor - Oklahoma Watch • Log into Facebook | Facebook • Judge Sides With Defendant in Lawmakers’ Open Records Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch • Does Oklahoma have some of the lowest wages in the nation? - Oklahoma Watch • Was Oklahoma’s unemployment rate under 3% as of January 2024? - Oklahoma Watch • Watchdog agency to restart health and safety checks at Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics - Oklahoma Watch • State’s AG Dismisses Second ClassWallet Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch • State Election Board Approves New GOP Members For Oklahoma County - Oklahoma Watch • Private Prison Staff Terminated Following Inmate’s Death - Oklahoma Watch • Parole Board Approves Revised Commutation Eligibility Requirements - Oklahoma Watch • Does Oklahoma have no minimum age of marriage if approved by a court? - Oklahoma Watch • Tax Cuts, Tribal Relations Dominate Stitt’s State Of The State Address - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Seek Changes to Mental Health Law - Oklahoma Watch • State Election Board Removes GOP Members From Oklahoma County Election Board - Oklahoma Watch • Our Response to Ryan Walters' Accusations - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Proposed Law Could Mean More Involuntary Commitments - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Watch Sues Ponca City Seeking Arrest Details, Public Oversight - Oklahoma Watch • Pensions, Prescriptions and Pot Among Proposals Before Lawmakers - Oklahoma Watch • State Seeks Repayment of Errant Teacher Bonuses - Oklahoma Watch • Five Criminal Justice Bills to Watch in 2024 - Oklahoma Watch • State Employee Move To Telework Leads To New Corrections HQ - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers File Open Records Lawsuit Against District Attorney - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Parole Rate Declines - Oklahoma Watch • What you need to know about the private school tax credits - Oklahoma Watch • Turnover, Scandals Have Some Rethinking Governor's Power Boost - Oklahoma Watch • Refugee Students Face the Same Hurdles But Get Different Levels of Support - Oklahoma Watch • Is the age of consent 16 in Oklahoma? - Oklahoma Watch • National Guard Deployment To Texas Border Paid For By Disaster Response Funds - Oklahoma Watch • Transgender Student Sues to Stop State Dept. of Education Gender-Change Rule - Oklahoma Watch • Did Oklahoma implement new voter photo ID requirements in 2023? - Oklahoma Watch • Can a woman be sentenced to six years in jail and fined $100,000 for having an abortion in Oklahoma after six weeks? - Oklahoma Watch • These Oklahomans Needed Mental Health Care. Instead, They Died in Jail. - Oklahoma Watch • Outside Groups Spent $2.3 Million on Oklahoma Elections in 2023 - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Latinos Are Least Engaged in Politics; New PAC Wants to Change That - Oklahoma Watch • On Leave Over Harassment Complaints, Two OSSM Teachers Allowed to Retire - Oklahoma Watch • Parole Board Seeks Stiffer Commutation Requirements - Oklahoma Watch • After Slow Start, Opioid Settlement Money Expected To Flow To Cities and Counties - Oklahoma Watch • Plan Set to Engage More Latinos in Oklahoma Politics - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Department of Education Looks to Add Academic Standards - Oklahoma Watch • Does Oklahoma have one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in the nation as of November 4, 2023? - Oklahoma Watch • Is Oklahoma ranked the best state to work? - Oklahoma Watch • Enrollment Verification Problems Delay Start of Private School Tax Credit - Oklahoma Watch • Report Shows Uptick in Oklahoma’s Prison Population - Oklahoma Watch • State Monitoring of Tulsa Schools Ratcheted Up With New Expectations - Oklahoma Watch • Treasurer Criticizes Pension System For Taking Exemption His Office Exercised - Oklahoma Watch • Fewer Than 1 in 4 Oklahoma High Schools Meet New AP Requirement - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmaker Seeks Outside Investigation, Legislation After Hinton Shower Stalls Confinement - Oklahoma Watch • Sprawling Superagency Tasked With Technology and Services Needs Overhaul, Report Finds - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Lawton inmate suffered and died after prison refused medical care. - Oklahoma Watch • Private-Public Court Debt Collection Scheme Continues to Profit - Oklahoma Watch • Lawton Inmate Dies After Private Prison Staff Refused Care, Lawsuit Claims - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Walters Administration Wants to Hire Someone to Get More National Media Exposure - Oklahoma Watch • State Spending $4 Million To Set Up Private School Tax Credit Program - Oklahoma Watch • Walters Administration Wants to Hire Someone to Get More National Media Exposure - Oklahoma Watch • Asylum Relief Elusive for Two Afghan Scholars-at-Risk - Oklahoma Watch • How One Researcher Raised the Bar For Disadvantaged High School Students - Oklahoma Watch • Pottawatomie Jail Investigator Promoted Amid Cover-Up Allegations - Oklahoma Watch • AG Drummond Sues Over State Sponsored Religious Charter School - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Chairman Won't Sign Catholic Charter School Contract - Oklahoma Watch • Trump Dominates Early Presidential Fundraising in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • $17.7 Million in GEER 2 Money Went to Six Projects - Oklahoma Watch • Politics, Policy Clash Over Energy Boycott Law - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Prison Held Inmates in Shower Stalls for Days - Oklahoma Watch • In Oklahoma, School Educators Hit Native, Black and Students with Disabilities the Most - Oklahoma Watch • Proposed Education Budget Has More Bonuses for Teachers and Tutors - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Elite High School Ignored Harassment, Bullying - Oklahoma Watch • Lack of Rules Let Elite School Ignore Sexual Harassment and Bullying of Students - Oklahoma Watch • Her pregnancy was non-viable and her life was at risk but Oklahoma Law Prevented an Abortion - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers Weigh Restrictions on Ranked-choice Voting - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Dept. of Ed Endorses PragerU - Oklahoma Watch • Whitney Bryen joins the News 9 morning show to talk about Pott. County Jail coverup. • Cover-up Alleged in Pottawatomie County Jail Deaths - Oklahoma Watch • Tulsa Schools Avoid State Takeover, Improve Accreditation Status - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Public Employees Pension System Takes Exemption to Banking Law - Oklahoma Watch • The impact of nonprofit news: a look at new research • Long Story Short: Sexual Harassment Complaints Plague Elite Oklahoma High School - Oklahoma Watch • Afghan Refugee Resettlement Highlights Inequities for All Vulnerable Oklahomans - Oklahoma Watch • As Restricted Banking List Narrows, Oklahoma Pension Systems Eye Exemptions - Oklahoma Watch • What a State Business Decision Means For Veterans in Talihina - Oklahoma Watch • Broadband Providers Raise Coverage Concerns Over Millions In Relief Funding - Oklahoma Watch • Homeless Youth Walk a Hidden Path in Rural Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • State Education Board Delays Tulsa’s Accreditation Citing Its DEI Report - Oklahoma Watch • Regular State Board of Education Meeting | Regular State Board of Education Meeting | By Oklahoma State Department of Education | Facebook • Why Most Oklahoma Rural Hospitals Haven’t Accepted Congress’ Offer to Save Them - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma AG Wants Law Firms To Investigate Winter Storm Natural Gas Costs - Oklahoma Watch • 60% of Oklahoma Jails Failed 2022 Inspections • OKC Police Abandoned Man in Mental Health Crisis on Roadside Before Fatal Crash • Superintendent's Committee Wants Ten Commandments in Classrooms • Auditor: Oklahoma Spent Millions of Federal Dollars Incorrectly - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lobbyist Spending Rebounds From Pandemic-Era Decline - Oklahoma Watch • Walters’ Faith Committee Wants Ten Commandments in Every Public Classroom - Oklahoma Watch • Poorly Funded Ethics Commission Fights Campaign Finance Shenanigans • Legislature's Funding Scheme Handcuffs Ethics Commission Enforcement - Oklahoma Watch • Could Oklahoma’s Law on Anti-Oil and Gas Investments Hurt Pensioners? - Oklahoma Watch • Supreme Court Upholds Federal Law Meant to Protect Indian Children - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmakers Criticize Land Office Officials' Investment Scheme - Oklahoma Watch • Tulsa Police Defy Department Policy By Hiding Internal Investigation - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt's Second Inaugural Committee Raised Nearly $1.5 Million - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Board Approves First Religious Charter School - Oklahoma Watch • What Lawmakers Did and Didn’t Do for Voters and Election Officials - Oklahoma Watch • Interactive: See How Oklahoma’s 2024 Budget Proposal is Allocated - Oklahoma Watch • Superintendent Ryan Walters’ Video Escalates Attacks on Teacher Unions - Oklahoma Watch • Education Watch: Criminal Case Against Epic Co-Founders, CFO Set For Court - Oklahoma Watch • Budget Deal, Policy Decisions Expected in Final Week of Regular Legislative Session - Oklahoma Watch • Sex, Lies and Videotape: Why Sexual Abuse Allegations at a Women's Prison Went Nowhere • Governor, Legislative Leaders Strike ‘Monumental’ Public Education Funding Deal - Oklahoma Watch • Will GOP Lawmakers Strike an Education Deal This Week? - Oklahoma Watch • Education Watch: Catholic Charter School Decision Anticipated This Summer - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Pulls Back From Joining Interstate Voter List Maintenance Group - Oklahoma Watch • Why Oklahoma Isn’t Joining An Interstate Effort to Counter Voter Fraud - Oklahoma Watch • What it’s Like to Teach Civics Amid Political Polarization, Intense Scrutiny - Oklahoma Watch • Another Relief Program’s End Returns Some Oklahomans to Food Insecurity - Oklahoma Watch • Jail Death Investigation Highlights Fatal Flaws in State's Mental Health Response - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: How Texas Crossed the Line With a Texoma Pump Station - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma and Texas Seek Solution To Red River Water Dispute - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: Guess How Many State Purchases Bypass a Corruption-Prevention Rule - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt Names New Secretary of Education, Replacing Walters - Oklahoma Watch • Pivotal Catholic Charter School Decision Expected Today - Oklahoma Watch • Only 10% of Young Voters Cast a Ballot in Marijuana Special Election • Hootsuite - Login • As Voting Turnout Dips, Young Oklahomans Risk Losing Political Influence - Oklahoma Watch • In the Wake of School Choice Financial Scandals, Legislature Pursues Tax Credits Over Vouchers - Oklahoma Watch • After a Decade of Waiting, Oklahomans With Disabilities Still Aren't Receiving Care They Need - Oklahoma Watch • Education Department Moves to Revoke Credentials of Teacher Who Shared QR Code • These Oklahoma Communities Need Childcare. City Rules Could Make It Harder to Find - Oklahoma Watch • Why Oklahoma is Still Sitting On COVID-19 Relief Funds - Oklahoma Watch • Proposal to Boost Poll Worker Pay Clears Senate - Oklahoma Watch • When Are Voting Rights Restored in Oklahoma? Legislature Considers Clearing Up Confusion - Oklahoma Watch • Interactive: Precinct Map Shows Rural, Suburban Opposition to Recreational Marijuana - Oklahoma Watch • After SQ 820 Loss, Marijuana-Related Justice Reform Shifts to Legislature - Oklahoma Watch • Cleveland Co. Commissioner: Jail Health Care Expansion Unrelated to Recent Deaths - Oklahoma Watch • Long Story Short: State School Board Shuffle Continues - Oklahoma Watch • Education Watch: Board Appointee's Absences Draw Questions - Oklahoma Watch • Energy Trader Sued By Kansas AG Also Sold to Oklahoma Utilities - Oklahoma Watch • Mexican Consulate in OKC Expected to Be Taking Appointments as Soon as May - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahomans Languish in Jail Awaiting Mental Health Care, Federal Lawsuit Claims - Oklahoma Watch • What To Know About SQ 820 and Legalizing Recreational Marijuana in Oklahoma - Oklahoma Watch • Voter Turnout a Question Mark Leading Up to Recreational Marijuana Vote - Oklahoma Watch • Sheriff, Jail Health Care Provider Seek Public Money to Increase Staff After Two Women Died - Oklahoma Watch • Previously Withheld Video Shows Man’s Fatal Struggle With Pottawatomie County Jailers - Oklahoma Watch • Education Watch: State to Consider Religious Charter School This Week - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers File 40 Anti-LGBTQ Bills - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahomans Debunk False Claims of a Violent Protest at the State Capitol - Oklahoma Watch • How to Stay Informed and Engaged This Legislative Session - Oklahoma Watch • Behind Stitt's 'Democracy is Doomed' Remark and Other Election Issues Raised Monday - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt's State of the State: 'Everything is Possible, Right Here From Oklahoma' - Oklahoma Watch • Stitt Emphasizes Private School Vouchers as Top Education Priority - Oklahoma Watch • How a Southwest Oklahoma Town Lost its Hospital, and is Scrambling to Get it Back - Oklahoma Watch • Page not found - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Attorney General: Vendor Not To Blame for Misspent Education Relief Funds - Oklahoma Watch • How Oklahoma Lawmakers Seek to Change Elections and Ballot Initiatives - Oklahoma Watch • How A Small Business Owner Who Votes Conservative and Served Her Country Became a Culture War Target • An Early Look at the Legislature's Voucher Proposals - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers Complete Pre-Session Bill Filing - Oklahoma Watch • A Formerly Homeless Man’s Journey from Shelters, Hotels and Cars to Housing - Oklahoma Watch • Why Oklahoma is Paying its Education Superintendent More Than the Governor - Oklahoma Watch • Relief is Coming for Families of the Incarcerated, but Will Oklahomans Feel It? - Oklahoma Watch • Religious Charter School Test Case Rests With an Oklahoma Board Lacking Enough Members to Meet - Oklahoma Watch • Track Your State Lawmakers' Personal Financial Interests Using Our Database - Oklahoma Watch • Democracy Watch: Corporations, Individuals Fund Inaugural Festivities - Oklahoma Watch • Lawmaker Proposes End-of-Year Deadline for Oklahoma Online Voter Registration - Oklahoma Watch • Ryan Walters Steps Down From Nonprofit Role That Drew Scrutiny - Oklahoma Watch • Governor's $18 Million for Students Unspent in 2022 - Oklahoma Watch • State Agencies Encounter Problems With Licensing Software Platform - Oklahoma Watch • OKC Develops New Approach to Homelessness: Housing Over Criminalizing - Oklahoma Watch • Looking Ahead to the 2023 Legislative Session - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahomans Share Their Struggle for Mental Healthcare as Feds Investigate Statewide Treatment - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma News Deserts: Data Shows Voting Sagged in ‘Orphan Counties’ - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Watch Sues Tulsa Seeking Details of Woman Arrested During Bipolar Episode - Oklahoma Watch • OKC Police's Crowd-Sourced Effort Exploits Accused - Oklahoma Watch • Help Us Make a Difference - Donate Now • 114 Executions and Counting: An Oklahoma Priest’s Quest to Uphold the ‘Dignity of Life’ • Forced Out: Skyrocketing Rent, Evictions Pushing Thousands Out of Their Homes • Why Other States Have Eliminated Straight Party Voting - Oklahoma Watch • Demand Is High, But Financial Support For Oklahoma’s Unpaid Caregivers Is Scarce • Donate • A Lawmaker Seeks to Make Oklahoma Top-10 State For Women, Omits Abortion From Study • Gubernatorial Precinct Map Shows Rural, Suburban Dominance For GOP • Analysis: Voters Signal Comfort With GOP Candidates Up and Down Ballot - Oklahoma Watch • Mapping Oklahoma Governor's Races Since 2010 - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma City Charter School Leader Opposes District Bond, But Quietly Obtained a Bond For His School - Oklahoma Watch • Five Election Day Tips and Reminders - Oklahoma Watch • Our State Under Stitt—a series • A Choctaw Nation Initiative Fizzled, But Early Voting Still Soared - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers Use Campaign Reserves to Boost Candidates in Tight Races • Election 2022: How Oklahoma Counts and Certifies Votes  - Oklahoma Watch • Making the Grade: Has Stitt Fulfilled His Education Promises? - Oklahoma Watch • What Stitt Has and Hasn’t Done to Address Oklahoma’s Poor Health Outcomes • All States Lost Ground on Nation’s Report Card. Oklahoma Slipped More Than Most - Oklahoma Watch • Five Oklahomans Share Why They Work the Polls - Oklahoma Watch • Nursing Home Worker Shortage Puts Aging Oklahomans at Risk - Oklahoma Watch • Oklahoma Lawmakers Let Stitt Vetoes Stand on Three Pandemic Relief Bills - Oklahoma Watch • Why 21,000 Oklahoma Citizens Face Significant Barriers to the Ballot - Oklahoma Watch • What Pandemic Relief Projects Oklahoma Lawmakers Approved, Omitted in Special Session - Oklahoma Watch • Channeling Childhood Chaos To Help Oklahomans Suffering Addiction, Mental Illness - Oklahoma Watch • Here's the reason recreational marijuana isn't on the November ballot - Oklahoma Watch • Previewing Oklahoma’s Oklahoma Corporation Commission Race • Stabbings Soar at Southeast Oklahoma Private Prison • Oklahoma Voter Registration Guide • Long Story Short: Democracy Day is Sept 15. Here’s Why That Matters • Pandemic Relief Committee Approves $323 Million in Projects • Whistleblowers Allege Embezzlement, Fraud at Tahlequah Nonprofit That Championed Indigenous Women • Why Some Afghan Refugees in Oklahoma Live In Squalor • Recreation Marijuana Question Unlikely to Make November Ballot • Faced With COVID, A Desperate Man’s Sobriety, Survival Fell to His Mother When Rehab Center Evicted Him • Two Districts Downgraded for Complaints Under HB1775 • Schools Wait to Learn How to Police Their Bathrooms • What Legislators Did Instead of Funding Voter-Approved Criminal Justice Reforms • Find Out Who Requested Federal Relief Money Using Our New Searchable Database • Troubled Water: Public Water Operator’s Violations Keep Flowing • Federal Auditors Want Oklahoma To Return At Least $650,000 of Governor’s COVID-19 Relief Funds • New Law Reduces Taxes for Businesses, Cuts Support for Jobless Oklahomans • We Asked Voters ‘How is Oklahoma Working For You?’ Here’s What They Said • GOP Race for State Superintendent Is Heading For A Runoff • In Many Oklahoma Races, Outside Groups Are Outspending Candidates • Epic Co-Founders, Former CFO Arrested on Embezzlement, Racketeering Charges • The Effort to Build a New Oklahoma County Jail is a Decade in the Making • ACT Scores for Oklahoma Public Schools • Enrollment Irregularities, Unapproved Bonuses: the Latest Epic Charter Investigation • Epic Charter Schools Settles Open Records Lawsuit Brought by Oklahoma Watch • Stitt’s ‘Oklahoma Turnaround’ Ads May Violate Ethics Rules • The Misinformation Election: Lies, Conspiracy Theories Prominent in Many GOP Races • How Oklahoma Lawmakers Have Loosened Gun Regulations the Past Decade • Oklahoma Officials Release Requests For Billions In Federal Pandemic Relief Funds • Audit Questions Slowness of Oklahoma Support For Abortion Alternatives • Despite Scathing Audit, Federal Agencies Award $1.7 Million to Oklahoma Nonprofit • Legislature Sends $9.7 Billion Dollar Bill to the Governor • Billionaire Philanthropists Pushing Charter Schools and School Vouchers Also Fund Oklahoma’s Secretary of Education’s Six-Figure Salary • Protected, For Now: The Race To Provide Afghan Evacuees With Legal Services • State Officials Refuse To Release A Report On A Troubled Relief Program Where Parents Purchased TVs And Smartwatches • Long Story Short: The Latest Watchdog Journalism on Public Funds and Policing • Stitt Gave Families $8 Million For School Supplies in the Pandemic; They Bought Christmas Trees, Gaming Consoles and Hundreds of TVs • Oklahoma Watch Files Transparency Lawsuit Against State Agency Over Federal Relief Funds • Nearly Half of Oklahoma Legislative Races Already Are Decided Without a Vote • Oklahoma County Voters Will Decide on New Jail Funding • What to Watch During Oklahoma’s Candidate Filing Period • Oklahoma Commission on Race and Equality Proposal Fails Again • How a Proposed Felony Classification System Would Affect Justice in Oklahoma • Local Live(s): Oklahoma • A Day In Oklahoma County Drug Court, Where a Judge Hopes All Rise • At Least 537 COVID-19 Deaths Missing From State Nursing Home Data • ‘Prompt and Reasonable’: Why Oklahoma’s Public Records Standard Breeds Frustration • Oklahoma State Auditor Q&A: ‘I Believe People Own the Government’ • An Oklahoma Bill to Implement School Vouchers is Moving Forward. Here’s What We Know. • The Process in Oklahoma is Expensive and Time-Consuming. The Legislature Could Change That. • Why 25,000-Plus Oklahomans Are Still Waiting For Rental Assistance • Claiming Out-of-State Influences, Oklahoma Looks to Clamp Down on State Question Laws • Oklahoma Deems Billions In Federal Covid Relief Fund Applications A Secret • How A State Lawmaker’s Day Job Tiptoed into Lobbying • Oklahoma Customers Paid Billions for Natural Gas In Last Winter’s Storm. Here’s Who Cashed In • Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Fourth State of the State Address, Annotated • How Oklahoma Republicans, Democrats Are Taking Aim at Voting Bills • Education Watch: Oklahoma’s Backpack Funding Bill is One to Watch • Keeping Track of Oklahoma’s Key 2022 Election Dates and Deadlines • Ten Criminal Justice Bills Worth Tracking This Legislative Session  • What To Know About Oklahoma Natural Gas’ New Storm Charges • Governor’s Order Throws Transgender Oklahomans into Legal Limbo • What It’s Like For A Teacher Whose District Closed Temporarily for COVID-19 • The Winter Gas Bill From Hell: Oklahomans Face Paying $1.4 Billion Over Snow Storm • Stitt Announces State Workers to Sub for Teachers Amid School Staffing Crisis • Why Oklahoma Watch is Launching a Democracy and Misinformation Beat • Oklahoma Public School Enrollment: New Data Shows Where Students Returned • While Active Cases Remain Low, Omicron Threat Looms in Oklahoma Prisons • Inside A Potentially One-Sided Race for State Superintendent • A Year After Jan. 6 Insurrection, Election Lies, Misinformation Persist For Some in Oklahoma GOP • Long Story Short: Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Political Issues of 2022 • From COVID-19 to the Governor’s Race, What Will be Oklahoma’s Top Political Storylines of 2022 • As Some Oklahoma Churches Push Vaccines, Others Sow Misinformation, Doubt • How Relocation, Privatization Compromised the Oklahoma Public Health Lab Mission • Balancing Safety, Resettlement As Afghan Refugees Arrive in Oklahoma • Changing the Narrative to ‘Us and We’ in North Tulsa • Your donations are matched • Redistricting: Weighing the Impact of Splitting Oklahoma’s Largest Hispanic Community • Oklahoma Politicians, Others React to Julius Jones Commutation • Nursing Home COVID Data Renewed Following Public Pressure • They Don’t Vote, But They Do Count: How the Incarcerated Skew Political Representation in Oklahoma • Ida’s Law: The Promise, Limitations of Oklahoma’s Pursuit of Justice for Indigenous People • Long Story Short: How The Counting of the Incarcerated Influences Oklahoma Politics • Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks State From Carrying Out Two Executions. What’s Next? • Health Commissioner Resigns After Stitt’s Criticism Of Non-Binary Birth Certificate Settlement • Breaking Down a Proposal to Standardize Criminal Sentencing in Oklahoma • Oklahoma’s Average ACT Score Improves, But Participation Declined • State Seeks To Recoup Unemployment Overpayments But Doesn’t Know How Much • How You Can Make Your Voice Heard in Advance of Oklahoma’s Upcoming Redistricting Session • Oklahoma Student Learning in a Pandemic: Test Results Show Heavy Toll • As Lawmakers Prepare for Redistricting Special Session, What You Need to Know • Masked, Vaccinated and COVID-19 Positive: Why Some Teachers Say This Year’s Precautions Are Still Not Enough • Oklahoma Domestic Violence Reports Reach Highest Level in 20 Years • ‘Long Story Short’ Podcast: Oklahoma’s Approach to Rental Assistance, Masks in Schools, Refugee Resettlement • How Oklahoma Is Preparing For Arrival of Afghan Refugees • Many Seeking Emergency Rental Assistance Left Waiting • Oklahoma Watch Debuts Podcast ‘Long Story Short’ • State Officials Are Ready to Resume Executions. Here’s What You Need To Know. • Oklahoma’s Ban on School Mask Mandates is on Hold. Here’s What You Need to Know • Oklahoma Starts Year With Its Most Emergency Teachers On Record • Oklahoma Doctors, Tired But Not Deterred, Push to Get Patients Vaccinated • Seeking to Reduce, Treat Effects of Childhood Trauma • Only Half of Oklahoma’s Nursing Home Workers Are Vaccinated. Now Biden Is Mandating It. • Oklahoma Offering Free ACT, SAT to Students This Fall • Oklahoma Suicides Climb to Highest Point Since 2006 • As COVID Cases Rise, Oklahoma Sees Increased Insurance Signups • Masks are Optional. COVID Cases are Surging. And it’s Time for Back-to-School. • As Other Governors Pull Out Vaccine Media Blitz, Oklahoma’s Stitt Largely Silent • With Its Private Prison Empty, Western Oklahoma Town Faces An Uncertain Future • FCC Order Could Help Curb Contraband Cell Phone Use in Oklahoma Prisons • Corrections Director Blames Press Leak For Abrupt Prison Closure Announcement • Oklahoma Sees Early Summer Spike In Coronavirus Cases • As State Prison Staffing Shortage Persists, Advocates Fear Violence • State Prison in Northwest Oklahoma Will Close By Year’s End • Epic’s New Board Chair Founded a Charter School. Its Start Has Been Rocky • Tulsa Race Massacre: Elected Officials On When They Learned About It And How It Influences Them • Tulsa Race Massacre Prayer Room Highlights Churches’ 1921 Sins, Seeks Healing • Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial: ‘The Blood Is Still Speaking’ • Examining the Impact: How Oklahoma’s New Laws Will Affect You • Outgoing AG Mike Hunter Dismisses Attempted Bribery Charges Against Stitt Cabinet Member • ‘Megacenters’ Coming to OKC, Tulsa for Real ID Delays • Oklahoma’s Legislature Fast-Tracks Multi-Billion Budget Bill, Again • Prisoner’s Mother: ‘You Never Know When It Could Be Your Family Member’ • How Four Oklahoma School Leaders View Federal Relief Funds • Sen. Inhofe Wants to Give Police $7.5 million For Mental Health Training • Breaking Down A State Budget Featuring Personal And Corporate Income Tax Cuts • Visitors, Volunteers Return to Oklahoma Prisons as Cases Drop, Vaccine Access Widens • Grand Jury: Epic Charter School ‘system ripe for fraud’ • OKC Proposes $300K to Reduce Police Response to Mental Health Crises • Update: Where $63 Million in Federal Relief Aid For Private Schools Went In Oklahoma • Oklahoma COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Mapped by ZIP Code • Activists, ACLU Vow to Challenge Bill Protecting Motorists Who Hurt or Kill Rioters • In Remembering OKC Bombing Victims, Experts See Lessons for Grieving COVID Losses • Lost in the Pandemic • Settlement Gives Epic Charter Schools Fresh Start on Shrouded Learning Fund • Illinois Dramatically Cut the Cost of Prison Phone Calls. Oklahoma Could Do The Same • Inside Oklahoma’s Police Training For Mental Health 911 Calls • Oklahoma’s Hydroxychloroquine Shipment Took A Detour to a Pryor Pharmacy • How Epic Seeks to Resolve Contract Dispute with Statewide Virtual Charter School Board • Population Reduction Could Help Improve Oklahoma County Jail Conditions • A Closer Look at Oklahoma’s Move to Alter Education Funding and Make Student Transfers Easier • Oklahoma Watch to Moderate OKC School Board Candidate Forum • How the State Board Abruptly Settled Charter School Lawsuit Against Legal Advice • Congress Gives Oklahoma Cash Infusion for Expanding Medicaid • Contact Tracing Investment Yielded No COVID-19 Insights, Report Finds • Vaccine Hesitancy Among Guards and Inmates Could Threaten State Prisons • ‘Tilting at Windmills’: What Happens When the Public Fights For Open Records • No Letter Grade: Evaluating Oklahoma Public Schools Without A-F • What You Don’t Know and Should About Nursing Home Care • Facebook Live - Trevor Brown & Mike Sherman • No Comment: In Oklahoma’s Legislature, Public Rarely Given Chance to Weigh In • Vaccinations, Drops in COVID-19 Cases Create Optimism in Oklahoma • Oklahoma, Tulsa County Health Departments Could See Erosion of Independence • Pardon and Parole Board Advances Julius Jones’ Commutation Application. What’s Next? • As Vaccine Supplies Increase, Oklahoma Opens Next Groups for COVID-19 Shots • State Lawmakers Push Bills That Would Roll Back State Question 780 • Gauging A Plan To Alter Education Funding in Oklahoma • COVID-19 Vaccinations Accelerate in Oklahoma, Which Ranks 7th Nationally • Tablets and Video Calls Are Coming To Oklahoma Prisons. But at What Cost? • Lawmakers: Gov. Stitt’s Managed Care Plan Complicates Medicaid Expansion Funding Plan • Temperatures Freeze Vaccine Rollout in Oklahoma as COVID-19 Cases Show Decline • Amid Extreme Winter Weather, Some Oklahoma Prisons Lose Heat • How Much Federal Relief Funds Have Oklahoma Private Schools Received? • Active Coronavirus Cases See Steep Drop in Oklahoma • Oklahoma’s Jail Mortality Rate Ranks Second in Nation • Oklahoma Lawmakers Report Large Campaign Reserves After 2020 Races • Oklahoma Follows National Trend of Lower COVID-19 Cases • Five Education Bills to Watch This Session • Vaccines Reach Nearly All Oklahoma Long-Term Care Facilities • Report: Pandemic Federal Funds Were Used On Oklahoma Technology Needs • Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s State of the State Address, Annotated • Oklahoma Seniors Slow to Apply for College in Wake of Pandemic • How Federal Coronavirus Relief Funds Were Allocated To Oklahoma School Districts • Five Criminal Justice and Corrections Bills To Watch This Session • Hospitalizations Decline in Oklahoma But Deaths Mount • Arms Race: Why 62,000 Doses of COVID Vaccine Sit Frozen in Oklahoma • Active COVID-19 Cases Fall in Oklahoma, Death Reports Remain High • Stitt Pushes For Schools to Open Amid Worsening Pandemic As Teachers Wait For Vaccine • Calculating the Fundraising Backlash Against Oklahoma Congressional Delegation • CVS Delays Prompt Oklahoma To Step In With Vaccinations For Veteran Centers • Oklahoma On Track for Worst Month of Pandemic • Inmates, Corrections Staff Express Reluctance to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine • Virus Spread Continues As Vaccine Roll Out Gains Pace in Oklahoma • Unstable Enrollment Complicates Oklahoma Public School Funding Picture • ‘God, Please Keep Us Safe’: Amid COVID, an Oklahoma Nursing Home Faces Impossible Decisions • Donate here - we appreciate your support! • Superintendent Joy Hofmeister Didn’t Want To Know About Federal Epic Investigation, Records Show • As Vaccine Rolls Out to First Oklahomans, Coronavirus Cases Remain High Statewide • Oklahoma Advises Those Infected With COVID-19 To Do Their Own Contact Tracing As It Shutters Center • As COVID-19 Spreads In State Prisons, Inmate Families Protest Poor Conditions • Oklahoma On Pace to Break Affordable Care Act Enrollment Record • 'It's Horrible.' Crisis Commander Says Police Shouldn't Respond to Mental Health Calls • COVID-19 Deaths in Oklahoma Surpass 2,000 After Increases in Cases, Hospitalizations • COVID-19 Response, Budget Among Top Priorities for Legislative Leaders • High Prices Still a Concern After An Oasis Fills Northeast OKC’s Food Desert • Stitt’s New Board of Education Pick Spread Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories • Epic Charter Schools Settles Teachers’ 2019 Legal Claims • How the Biden Administration Could Influence Criminal Justice in Oklahoma • Oklahoma Obamacare Premiums Are Lowest in Years, But Will COVID-19 Impact Sign-ups? • State Auditor Concerned Epic Funding ‘Not Getting to Students’ • Despite Fear in Oklahoma, Biden Likely Won’t Be ‘Banning’ Fracking • Mental Health CEO: Winter Could Bring ‘Desperate, Dramatic Increase to Homelessness’ • School Funding Outlook Distressing in an Already Difficult Year • After 1,600 Deaths and Counting, Mask Mandate Remains Flashpoint in Oklahoma • Who Will Get Vaccinated First in Oklahoma? • Active Coronavirus Cases Pop Up In Prison Towns, Suburbs • ‘It Was Hell’: Inside an Oklahoma Prison Coronavirus Outbreak • Where Dark Money Flowed in Oklahoma’s Legislative Races • Coronavirus Continues March Across Oklahoma as Hospitalizations Set Record • State Senator-Elect Jo Anna Dossett: ‘2021 is Not the Time for Cuts’ • Where Trump Gained and Lost Support in Oklahoma • Newsmatch Donations • Stillwater, Claremore Latest Hotspots for Coronavirus in Oklahoma • As Biden Nears Victory, Oklahoma Republicans Push Falsehoods, Unfounded Claims • Last Voter: How This Oklahoman Cast Her First Ballot With Seconds to Spare • How Stephanie Bice Beat Kendra Horn To Flip Seat Back to GOP • How Oklahoma Voted Against Criminal Justice Reform Proposed In State Question 805 • As Nation Awaits Presidential Returns, Oklahoma Goes Solidly for Republicans • In ‘Purple’ Precinct, Voters Split On President, Find Consensus On Other Issues • Where Support For Trump Is Unwavering • Election 2020 Live Updates: Will These Precincts Look The Same This Time? • Before Election, GOP Gets Boost in Registered Voters • In Oklahoma Legislative Races, GOP Rakes in PAC Cash • Fight Back Against Misinformation Using These Tips • Oklahoma Restores Voting Rights For Felons, But Not So Fast • ‘I’m a Terrorist?’ Prosecutors, Lawmakers Seek Harsh Penalties For Those Who Destroy Property in Protests • Oklahoma Closes Deadliest COVID-19 Month With Hotspots in Shawnee, Edmond and OKC • These Oklahoma Politicians Gave Misinformation a Boost • 70 Oklahoma Schools Failed to Submit Immunization Data • Cheat Codes: Students Search For Shortcuts as Virtual Schooling Expands • As Last Resort, Oklahoma Quarantine Orders Rise Amid Coronavirus Pandemic • As Census Closes, Oklahoma Among Least Self-Reporting States • El Reno Tops COVID-19 Hotspots as Hospitalizations Hit Record • State Officials Say Oklahoma is on Track to Resume Executions • A Guide to State Question 805 and its Potential Impact on Oklahoma Criminal Justice • State Board Orders Epic Charter Schools to Repay $11 million • Uncontested Oklahoma: Lack of Competitive Races on the Rise This Year • Register to Vote • How to Bring Care to Mental Health Emergencies • What Happens When Oklahoma City Police Respond to Mental Health Crises • Oklahoma City Mental Health Emergencies Outpace Police Trained To Handle Them • Guthrie, Lawton, Yukon Join Prison Towns in Top Weekly COVID-19 Hotspots • How Oklahoma’s Broken ACT Commitment Is Impacting Seniors • Board Passes $3.2 Billion Education Budget Request to Legislature • Newly Appointed Education Secretary: Virtual Teaching During COVID a ‘Heavy Lift’ • COVID-19 In State Prisons: ‘It’s Supposed to be a Work Camp, not a Death Camp’ • As Oklahoma’s Voter Registration Deadline Approaches, Other States Provide More Time • State Breaks Commitment to Class of 2021 In Order To Save $1.9 Million • Oklahoma Watch partners with OETA, League of Women Voters on congressional debate • Norman, Chickasha Lead Weekly Coronavirus Hotspots • COVID-19 Is Spreading in State Prisons. Families Say Oklahoma Is Not Doing Enough. • Outbreaks in Prisons, Spread in College Towns Drive COVID-19 Hotspots • Stitt’s Office Pays Lobbyist for Advice on Federal COVID Funds • Veteran Teachers Choosing Retirement Over COVID-19 • Fort Sill, Stillwater among state’s COVID-19 hotspots • ‘Sued Every Way and Sunday.’ New Prison Phone Provider Has Troubled History • Oklahoma Runoff Takeaways: Stephanie Bice Wins, Incumbents Fall • Are Oklahoma’s schools safe and ready? Help us tell your story. • Voter Registration Lags in Oklahoma Amid COVID-19 • Jail outbreak puts Oklahoma City among state’s COVID-19 hotspots • Families Seek Refund For Services Colleges Didn’t Deliver • As Rapid COVID-19 Testing Heads To Nursing Homes, Lack of Public Tests Threatens Its Effectiveness • Navigating Another Back-to-School Mystery: Vaccinations • As Pandemic Widens, Oklahoma Diminishes State Epidemiologist Role • Amid COVID-19 Crisis, Some Oklahoma Hospitals Continue Suing Patients Over Unpaid Bills • In Oklahoma, Epic’s Operator Refuses to Release Spending Records. In California, Records Are Public • Lexington, Oklahoma City lead the state’s COVID-19 hotspots • Oklahoma Moves Toward Phasing Out Private Prisons. What A Path Forward Looks Like • COVID-19 Poses Another Challenge for Schools: Air Quality • COVID-19 hotspots in Oklahoma: Altus’ active cases up 47% • Please donate today • Altus is Oklahoma’s Hottest COVID-19 Hotspot • Five Oklahoma Takeaways From the White House ‘Red Zone’ COVID-19 Report • Donate today • Oklahoma Ends Contract with Troubled Private Prison In Cushing • Oklahoma’s Prison Population is Dropping Amid the Pandemic • A Ponca City Man Was an Early ‘Face of COVID-19’ for Oklahomans. Here’s How He’s Doing • Stitt Lashes Out as Pick to Run Land Office Is Approved in Special Meeting • Stitt’s Pick to Run State Land Office Led Bankrupt Energy Company • The Supreme Court Affirmed Native American Rights in Oklahoma. Here’s What That Could Mean. • Donate here. • Hospitalization Increase Leads Integris to Open its COVID-19 Wings at Portland Campus • Six Takeaways From Oklahoma Paycheck Protection Program Data • Congressional Investigators Look Into COVID-19 Billing at Two Hospitals in Oklahoma • Oklahoma’s State Legislature is Disproportionately White. These Candidates Are Trying to Change That. • COVID-19 Testing Drew a Record Crowd in Norman Last Week. I Was Among Them • Voters Extended Health Insurance to 215,000 Oklahomans. Meet Three of Them • The Basics on Medicaid Expansion Vote • Will It Be Safe at the Polls? • At Heart of Medicaid Expansion Vote: What Program Would Cost Oklahoma • What You Need to Know About Voting in the Primary Election • What Drove Them to Be There • Twitter • Few Hearings, Fewer Votes: Police Oversight Bills See Little Attention in Oklahoma’s Legislature • Q&A: What to Expect When Schools Reopen in August • No Loans, Less Business. But These OKC Hispanic Restaurants Are Managing • Nursing Homes: 95 Deaths, No Violations • ‘The Hardest Part is Knowing Our Kids Need Other Kids’ • How Cherokee Women Navigate COVID-19 • Twenty Years After It Became a Crime, Racial Profiling Charges Remain Scarce • Oklahoma Pulls Back on Releasing Coronavirus Data • State Plans to Hire Fewer Contact Tracers Than Experts Recommend • For First Time, Oklahoma Reports Per-Pupil Spending by School • State Readies Plan for Opening Nursing Homes, But Industry Skeptical • Why More Women Than Men Contract the Coronavirus • COVID-19 Vaccine Could Meet Resistance in Oklahoma • State Offers Five Calendar Options for School Year • The Coronavirus Storytelling Project • As Oklahoma Reopens, Cities Shy Away from Enforcing Restrictions • With Lockdowns Relaxing, Talk of Reopening Nursing Homes Emerges • Oklahoma Watch Adds Veteran Journalists Streuli and Sherman • Shift to Distance Learning Highlights Stark Inequities in Internet Connection • Coronavirus Tests Surge, But Still Fall Short of Recommendations • State Delivering Protective Equipment to Nursing Homes, But Is it Enough? • Schools Face Challenge of Teaching Reading in Proven Way – And Now in a Pandemic • What Medical Groups Say About Reopening Oklahoma’s Economy • Q&A on Stitt’s Unveiling of Plan to Reopen State’s Economy • Models Project Less Severe Toll From Virus, But Are Stalked by Unknowns • After Resisting, State Decides to Release Number of COVID-19 Cases, Deaths for All Cities • Experts: Oklahoma, Among Nation’s Unhealthiest States, Faces Heightened Risks for COVID-19 • State Investigates More Than 25 Long-Term Care Centers • Amid Pandemic, Signs Emerge of Growing Family Violence at Home • Despite Pleas, Hundreds of Oklahoma Child Care Centers Close • Racial Breakdown Shows Whites, Blacks Dying Most from COVID-19 in State • Beds: Questions of Supply for All Patients • Protective Equipment: Scramble to Build the Treatment Shield • As COVID-19 Cases Spread, State Officials Release Few Local Details • Q&A on Schools: Buildings Are Closed, But Districts Told to Find Ways to Educate Students • State to Child Care Centers: Please Don’t Close • Oklahoma Joins Growing List of States That Are Closing Public Schools • As News of Coronavirus Spreads, Worried Oklahomans Stock Up, Change Behavior • In Oklahoma’s Super Tuesday Race, Finishing First Isn’t Everything • Epic Charter Grads Less Likely to Enroll in College • Domestic-Abuse Punishments Escalate Tensions Between Victim Advocates, Justice Reform Supporters • Online Charter School Mails Recruitment Fliers to Thousands of Students’ Homes • Exclusive: Stitt’s Plan Would Implement Full Medicaid Expansion as Early as July • Prisoners of Debt Series • Highlights of Stitt's State of the State Address, Annotated