A bill that would allow city employees to carry firearms for protection at work passed out of the House of Representatives this week. House Bill 2547, by state Rep. Sean Roberts, would allow municipalities to pass ordinances that authorize all or certain municipal employees to carry concealed firearms. The bill would require those employees to…
The Senate has passed a measure that would prohibit law enforcement entities from requiring officers, justices or judges to meet traffic citation quotas. Authored by Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, Senate Bill 1264 would prohibit any political subdivision or agency of the state to maintain, require or suggest that employee evaluations, promotions, compensation or discipline…
The House of Representatives passed legislation to grant cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for retirees in six Oklahoma pension plans, including teachers, firefighters, police, public employees and justices and judges. House Bill 3350 passed with a unanimous bipartisan vote of 99-0. “Our state retirees have not had a cost-of-living adjustment for 12 years, even as their health…
Anyone who wants an absentee ballot for the April 7 elections should apply now, according to Tulsa County Election Board Secretary Gwen Freeman. Freeman urged voters to apply now even though the Election Board can accept applications for absentee ballots until 5 p.m. April 1. The ballot on April will have: Tulsa Public School Board,…
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has submitted a state plan amendment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to increase eligibility of the SoonerCare recipients. SoonerCare is Oklahoma’s Medicaid program. This plan would add the new adult group ages 19-64 with incomes at or below 133% of the federal poverty level, which is $34,846…
The City’s Household Pollutant Collection Facility expects to collect more than 16,000 gallons of latex paint in 2020, which would be enough to paint roughly 5,300 homes that are 1,200 sq. ft. The numbers come after the facility released its 2019 Annual Report, which detailed a 96 percent increase in collections from 2018. In 2019,…
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., (PRNewswire) – Whirlpool Corporation announced the official opening of its new state-of-the-art Factory Distribution Center (FDC) adjacent to its existing manufacturing plant in Tulsa. The existing plant produces freestanding and slide-in ranges under the Whirlpool, Amana, Maytag, KitchenAid and JennAir brands. Whirlpool’s $55 million investment in the new FDC, an 800,000 square…
STILLWATER — First-of-its-kind research at Oklahoma State University may dispel some claims that modern wheat consumption disrupts gastrointestinal health. The study, published last November in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, studied the changes in the structure of the gut and inflammatory response of mice fed the modern Gallagher and heirloom Turkey wheat varieties….
President Donald Trump has endorsed Sen. Jim Inhofe’s re-election bid. Inhofe was also endorsed by Gov. Kevin Stitt, Senator James Lankford and the entire Oklahoma delegation. Stitt said, “Now more than ever we need the true conservative leadership of Jim Inhofe in Washington. “Whether it’s funding our roads and bridges or fighting the overregulation of…
In the Democrat Presidential Primary in 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders got 174,054 votes (51%) compared to 139,338 votes (41%) for Hillary Clinton. In the Super Tuesday vote on May 3, Sanders got 77,302 votes (25%) – a drop of almost 100,000 votes. Consequently, former Vice President Joe Biden won the Oklahoma Democrat primary with 117,552…