Governor Kevin Stitt has appointed Judge Thomas E. Prince to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. This is the governor’s third appointment to the Court. “Judge Tom Prince is a proven legal mind who has served the State of Oklahoma for over three decades,” said Stitt. “Years of legal and judicial experience have prepared him…
Governor Kevin Stitt sees a tight budget for state government in 2021. The Oklahoma State Board of Equalization certified an estimate indicating lawmakers will have $8.4 billion to build a budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2021. “Over the course of this past fiscal year, Oklahoma’s state revenues have dropped due…
The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) announced that 13 water systems in Oklahoma – including Tulsa – have been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the year 2019. Fluoridation is the adjustment of fluoride in drinking water to a level for preventing tooth…
The Tulsa Beacon publishes 51 times a year and takes off the week between Christmas and New Year’s. December 24 is the final issue of 2020. There will not be a December 31 issue and the next paper will be on Thursday, January 7. Double portions of comics, puzzles, columns and other features are in…
Oklahoma has received 33,150 doses of vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus and 2,253 doses had been administered by December 21. Also as of December 21, the Oklahoma State Health Department reported 263,434 total cases of the coronavirus within Oklahoma. The number of Oklahomans who have recovered is 224,672. There have been 2,218 state deaths attributed…
OKLAHOMA CITY – State Sen. Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, said he has filed the Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act/Equal Protection and Equal Justice Act, which would criminalize and end all abortions in Oklahoma. The measure would ensure equal justice and equal protection of the laws to all unborn children from the moment of fertilization and…
Despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, more than a third of all Americans plan to travel around Christmas Day. When it comes to being “home for the holidays,” GasBuddy’s Holiday Travel Survey found that more than a third (34%) of Americans are planning to take to the road for the special day. Nearly 60% of those…
Tulsa City Hall, Municipal Court and other city facilities will be closed Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25, for the Christmas holiday, and Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, for the New Year’s holiday. A furlough closure on the afternoon of Dec. 23 will precede the Christmas holiday. Despite these closures, public safety and mission critical…
Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, has filed the Defend the Guard Act to ensure men and women serving in the Oklahoma National Guard are only deployed as directed by the United States Constitution. Senate Bill 135 would prohibit any member of the Oklahoma National Guard from being released into active duty combat unless Congress has…
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has elected Vice-Chief Justice Richard Darby to serve as Chief Justice and Justice M. John Kane IV to serve as Vice-Chief Justice, as mandated by the Oklahoma Constitution, for the term January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2022. Darby, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2018, succeeds Chief Justice…