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Oklahoma’s harm reduction law inches toward expiration
OklahomaHealthPolitics
Written By: Kayla Branch
(OKLAHOMA) Volunteers for Shred the Stigma gather every other Saturday to build kits containing fentanyl testing strips and clean syringes.
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Oklahoma considers a pitch from a private company to monitor parolees with artificial intelligence
OklahomaCrimeTechnology
Written By: Ari Fife
(OKLAHOMA) Oklahoma lawmakers are considering investing in a new platform that aids in parole and probation check-ins through monitoring with artificial...
The Oklahoma County jail struggles with a shrinking number of detention officers
OklahomaCrimePolitics
Written By: Maddy Keyes
(TULSA, Okla.) The chronically understaffed Oklahoma County Detention Center has even fewer guards than last year, despite efforts to hire and retain more...
Tulsa must dramatically boost its housing supply over the next decade, experts say
OklahomaPoliticsCommunity
Written By: Dylan Goforth
(TULSA, Okla.) Tulsa needs to increase its housing supply by 55% to meet the city’s demand over the next decade, city and state leaders were told...
Despite tribal citizenship, traffic tickets for Freedmen descendants to remain in city court
OklahomaCrimePoliticsIndigenous
Written By: Clifton Adcock and Allison Herrera
(OKLAHOMA) A deal for the City of Tulsa to send traffic and other municipal cases involving Muscogee Nation citizens to tribal court...
Listen Frontier: ‘We’ve lost five years’: Cherokee Chief says next governor must rebuild tribal relations
OklahomaPoliticsIndigenous
Photo Credit: Dylan GoForth/The Frontier
(OKLAHOMA) Chuck Hoskin Jr. has served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation since 2019, leading the tribe through a period of historic...
Oklahoma’s Social Studies rewrite sparks backlash
OklahomaEducationPolitics
Photo Illustration by Dylan GoForth
(OKLAHOMA) Oklahoma has officially adopted new social studies standards that require public school students to be taught about “discrepancies” in...
Written By: Kevin Eagleson
(OKLAHOMA) Three people overdosed on fentanyl one night this spring in a quiet residential neighborhood in Enid.
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Nowhere to go: Oklahoma’s growing number of homeless youth have few options
OklahomaHealthPoliticsHome
Written By: Maddy Keyes
(OKLAHOMA) It was a muggy summer night when 17-year-old Jae quietly grabbed their black cat named Baby, careful not to wake their parents, and ran.
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Oklahoma is asking a federal judge to fine big poultry companies millions for polluting the Illinois River
OklahomaBusinessPoliticsEnvironment
Written By: Clifton Adcock
(OKLAHOMA) Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking a federal judge to fine some of the nation’s largest poultry companies tens of millions of...