Enrollment is up by more than 360 students at Oklahoma State University and retention is at an all-time high despite the challenges of a fall semester with a hybrid of online and in-person classes. The university saw a 1.5% bump in enrollment this fall compared with fall 2019. OSU has slightly more transfer students at…
For the week of August 23-29, Tulsa County saw a 4.36 percent decrease in cases of the Chinese coronavirus. There was a remarkable decrease in hospital admissions, which decreased by 32 percent compared to the previous week. The minimum age of those hospitalized continues to increase, and for the second week in a row there…
House Bill 3619 by State Rep. Terry O’Donnell, which was signed into law in May, ensures local property and business owners beginning Nov. 1 will have the right to connect to any utility legally operating in their area. This protects private property rights and consumer choice and promotes free enterprise, said O’Donnell, R-Catoosa. “This law…
House Speaker Charles McCall has appointed all House members to redistricting committees. Every ten years, the Oklahoma Constitution requires each legislative chamber to redraw its own districts and congressional districts following the release of decennial U.S. Census data. Eight regional redistricting subcommittees will go directly to the public to ask citizens how House districts should…
Help is on the way for Oklahoma’s public transit providers that have been impacted by decreased ridership and higher operational costs due to COVID-19. Governor Kevin Stitt along with Secretary of Transportation and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Executive Director Tim Gatz announced that $6 million in federal CARES Act funding will be directed to ODOT…
State Rep. Lundy Kiger, R-Poteau, hosted an interim study on state park parking fees before the House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Regulatory Services Kiger said he requested the study after the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department’s started charging parking fees of between $8 to $10 at about half of Oklahoma’s state…
State Rep. Tammy West, R-Oklahoma City, the chair of the Majority Caucus in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, held an interim study examining current and future needs of people in long-term care facilities related to COVID-19. The study was held before the House Health Services and Long-Term Care Committee. “A number of Oklahomans who are…
Sen. Nathan Dahm, Rep. Tom Gann and Rep. Terry O’Donnell are among the most conservative legislators in the state, according to the 2020 Conservative Index from the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper. Rep. Meloyde Blancett, Rep. Melissa Provenzano and Rep. Monroe Nichols are markedly the most liberal lawmakers from the Tulsa area. Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, was the…
OU’s Confucius Institute cited by U.S. State Dept. The U.S. Department of State has declared that the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, which has long operated an institute at The University of Oklahoma, is a foreign mission of the People’s Republic of China. In a statement on the action, the U.S. Department of State said the…
State Sen. Rob Standridge said after years of studying the issue of capitated managed care, he’s convinced adopting such a plan for Oklahoma would drive up costs and create a health care system that would leave the state’s most fragile citizens with inferior care. Standridge, R-Norman, explained his concerns in a letter sent to Oklahoma…