Two seats on the Tulsa School Board will be up for grabs early in 2021. Filing for the TPS seats plus spots in most of the public school districts within Tulsa County will be December 7-9 at the Tulsa County Election Board. There will also be filing for city council races in Owasso and Sand…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC] has received now more than 150,000 signatures on its petition in support of President Trump’s efforts to fight apparent election fraud in six states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. According to Bob Carlstrom, president of AMAC Action, the organization’s senior advocacy affiliate,…
OKLAHOMA CITY – For the last four years, the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) has coordinated with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) to collect gift donations for the state’s children in foster care under the program called OK Foster Wishes. Like just about every other facet of life, the COVID-19 pandemic is…
The Oklahoma CareerTech Testing Center, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, has agreed to provide the entrance exam for Oklahoma state trooper candidates. Under the agreement with the Department of Public Safety, applicants to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Academy will take the Oklahoma Peace Officer Screening and Selection Exam developed…
Governor Kevin Stitt has appointed Carol Iski as District Attorney for District 25, which includes Okmulgee and McIntosh Counties. “Carol Iski has spent her career making an impact within the criminal justice system in our state,” said Gov. Stitt. “Iski is a proven prosecutor who has consistently advocated for justice on behalf of all Oklahomans,…
Child and adult care institutions across the state are announcing their participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), which provides meals to hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans each year. During the last program year – October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020 – over 910,000 children and adults were served in Oklahoma…
Kindergarten students and students in grades 1-3 have returned to in-person classes in Tulsa Public Schools. Students in grades 4-6 are scheduled to go back to in-person classes on January 4. That’s also when TPS students in middle and high schools and junior highs will return to class for the spring semester. Most students have…
State Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, filed a series of election integrity bills to further strengthen and secure the state’s election systems and encourage the United States Congress to do the same. Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 would work to help strengthen election integrity across the country and bring the focus back to the Constitutional provisions…
OKLAHOMA CITY – The House of Representatives space in the Capitol now has a mask policy consistent with Gov. Kevin Stitt’s executive order concerning masks for state buildings and employees. “Because executive orders do not apply to the legislative branch, the House will observe the same mask policy the governor set for the rest of…
OKLAHOMA CITY – The House Republican Caucus has elected its leadership for the 58th Legislature and State Rep. Terry O’Donnell, R-Catoosa, was elected speaker pro-tempore-elect. He replaces State Rep. Harold Wright, R-Weatherford, who was term-limited this year. The legislative session convenes Feb. 1, 2021. “I’m grateful to have been selected to fill this leadership role…