Oklahoma Watch (http://oklahomawatch.org/author/bradgibson/page/2/)
Oklahomans will decide on Nov. 8 whether to liberalize state alcohol laws and allow sales of wine and cold strong beer in grocery and convenience stores. But if State Question 792 passes, the drama won’t come to an end.
Weeks into the school year, Oklahoma teachers may already be wondering if their August buying spree on behalf of their students was big enough.
The methamphetamine scourge is spreading again in Oklahoma, with fatal overdoses from the drug spiking last year, according to numbers from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
As Oklahoma schools prepare to start classes, they are wrestling with the challenges of the budget crunch. But the pain might be less if counties collected more school taxes lost because of wrongly assessed property values.
Brian Jackson, who lost big in Tuesday’s Republican primary race in a Tulsa-area Senate district, talks about what the primary results mean for the “teacher caucus” challenge.
Oklahoma Watch radio journalist Brad Gibson and State Capitol reporter Trevor Brown discuss what’s at stake in Tuesday primary election.
Although the governor suspended an Oklahoma Highway Patrol program allowing troopers to seize funds loaded on to prepaid debit cards, the practice hasn’t stopped at the local level.
Even with government subsidy programs, in-home storm shelters are out of financial reach for many Oklahomans. The state’s largest cities also don’t provide community storm shelters.
Interim Oklahoma Corrections Department chief Joe Allbaugh faces seemingly intractable problems in the prison system. He has ideas for changes and says he is decisive.
As Oklahoma’s school districts feel the impact of millions of dollars in budget cuts this year and next, many are dealing with the persistent issue of absenteeism.