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From Roger Stone to the Inola Smelter: Fact-Checking the Oklahoma Governor’s Runoff Debate

Republican gubernatorial candidates Gentner Drummond and Mike Mazzei debated Monday ahead of the August 25 runoff, sparring over the Inola smelter, insurance, immigration and taxes. Oklahoma Watch ...
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Oklahoma’s Elite State Boarding School Refuses to Adopt Title IX Protections. A Departing Administrator Called It a Crisis Waiting to Happen.

An administrator who resigned from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics after just four months warned its board the school was one serious incident away from a crisis, citing its refusal to ...
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Does Monsanto v. Durnell bar Oklahoma from adding differing health warnings to pesticide labels?

Monsanto v. Durnell bars all sub-national entities, including Oklahoma, from adding health warnings to pesticide labels ...
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The Nuclear Campus Pitch Came With a Catch: Oklahoma Could Store Spent Fuel From Around the Nation

Oklahoma is one of five finalist states for a federal Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus that could bring $50 billion in investment and 25,000 jobs — along with nuclear waste shipped in from across ...
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Cedar Lake Residents Battle Powerful Neighbor Over Unpermitted Dams

Cedar Lake residents in southwestern Canadian County say their lake and private wells are running dry because of upstream dams built by Glenn Coffee, a politically connected former Oklahoma Senate ...
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The Price of Freedom: Oklahoma Bail Schedules Vary Widely, Penalizing the Poorest

Haskell and Sequoyah counties meet at the Arkansas River, where the winding county line splits the river roughly in two. On one side of the water, an arrest for driving under the influence in Sequoyah ...
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Families Speak Out in Wake of News of State Farm Hail Scheme

Craig and Elizabeth Gutierrez stand outside their Edmond home, which has been a construction site for the better part of a year. (Brent Fuchs/Oklahoma Watch) Craig and Elizabeth Gutierrez, whose roof ...
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Oklahoma’s Ballyhooed Naloxone Vending Machine Program is Gone, Leaving Communities Scrambling to Fill the Gap

Naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses, is seen in a vending machine at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in Oklahoma City in this 2023 photo. (Paul Monies/Oklahoma Watch) ...
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Oklahoma Native American Students Ranked First in the Nation in Reading and Math, but Funding Cuts Could Change That

Star Yellowfish, director of Native American student services for Oklahoma City Public Schools (left), attends a powwow with students in 2025. (Courtesy Photo/Oklahoma City Public Schools) Before the ...
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Sen. Alan Armstrong Violated STOCK Act With 700 Tardy Stock Disclosures

Oklahoma Sen. Alan Armstrong disclosed more than 700 personal stock trades worth between $3.24 million and $16 million more than two months past the federal STOCK Act deadline, NOTUS reports.
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“It’s Defunding Schools”: What Oklahoma Superintendents Say About State Question 844

State Question 844, on the August 25 ballot, would allow the Legislature to stop reimbursing local governments and school districts for property tax revenue lost when manufacturers receive five-year ...