Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat said that 39 interim study requests have been approved. Senators had submitted 64 requests. Treat said the study requests were assigned to the standing Senate policy committee with jurisdiction over the subject matter of the request. Now that the studies have been assigned to Senate committees, committee chairs will…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Josh West, R-Grove, and Rep. Collin Walke, D-Oklahoma City, announced their interim study on the issue of internet data privacy. “Day by day we are losing any semblance of privacy due to internet service providers and online businesses skimming behavioral data from the internet,” West said. “Take the company responsible for…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Sean Roberts (R-Hominy) criticized the choice of National Basketball Association (NBA) players to take a knee during the national anthem prior to the beginning of their games. “By kneeling during the playing of the national anthem, the NBA and its players are showing disrespect to the American flag and all it…
Three Republicans, including Mayor G.T. Bynum, two Independents and two Democrats will be on the ballot August 25 in Tulsa mayoral race. Bynum has said this is the last time he will run for mayor. Here is information on all of the candidates. Republican Ken Reddick Reddick grew up in East Tulsa and attended Garnett…
Tulsans will also vote on five propositions on August 25 that deal with political correctness; nonpartisan elections; control of authorities, boards and commissions; and the status/role of the city attorney. Proposition No. 1 would delete any references to partisan elections because Tulsa’s municipal elections are “nonpartisan.” Proposition No. 2 would erase any “gender specific” pronouns…
Tulsa Schools may switch The Oklahoma City School Board pushed the start of school back to August 31 and announced that the first nine weeks of classes will be strictly “virtual learning” instead of face-to-face instruction. Tulsa Public Schools has pushed the start of classes back to August 31 instead of August 10 but has…
Governor Kevin Stitt issued Executive Order 2020-24, announcing the formation of The Oklahoma Commission on Cooperative Sovereignty to address concerns and make recommendations to the State and the U.S. Congress in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in McGirt v. Oklahoma and Sharp v. Murphy. “We know that there is a lot of…
Republican leaders in the Legislature praised the decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court declaring recent gambling agreements negotiated by Gov. Kevin Stitt as void under Oklahoma law. “This ruling confirms what we have maintained all along: There are parameters defined by statute that must be followed in the negotiation of and entering into tribal gaming…
As of July 27, Oklahoma has had 32,686 positive cases of the coronarvirus. Health officials say 573,185 people have been tested with 535,582 tests coming back negative. There were 625 people in hospital with the virus as of Monday and 496 people have died statewide. They report that 24,698 people have recovered from having the…
OKLAHOMA CITY — Members of the Oklahoma House Democrat Caucus responded to Governor Kevin Stitt announcing his plan to give at least $10 million out of $39.9 million in the GEER funds to private schools. The Democrat lawmakers argue that private schools have additional opportunities to generate revenue, like tuition and forgivable federal small business…