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Before joining Oklahoma Watch in 2012, Fritze worked at The Arizona Republic for 20 years in various positions, including business, metro and national editor, as well as a senior reporter.
Last week, representatives of Epic Charter Schools issued a lengthy commentary on our story about former teachers’ concerns over student-withdrawal practices at Epic. Executive Editor David Fritze responds.
Today Oklahoma Watch publishes an editorial rejecting President Donald Trump’s extreme attacks on the news media and affirming the value of a free and independent press.
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepared to make label changes for the herbicide dicamba after it caused widespread crop damage, the agency depended on the herbicide’s maker for guidance, documents from a federal lawsuit show.
Most Native American tribes are opting not to legalize marijuana, although at least two are poised to try it. Some Oklahoma tribes say they have no interest in growing and selling marijuana, although some were represented at a conference this year on the matter.
University of Oklahoma athletes led a march and stood in silence two days after OU’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was banned from campus because of members chanting racial slurs. An OU women’s soccer player and two executive members of OU Unheard, a group of black students who promote change, describe their reactions to the video. (By Arianna Pickard)
A look at child and teen deaths between 2002 and 2012. Oklahoma’s rates were among the highest.
The state recorded no corporate income tax collections in May, the third time this has occurred during fiscal 2014.
The Oklahoma medical examiner will begin directly reporting the names of overdose victims to the state narcotics agency, which will then use the data to more closely track the state’s prescription drug problem.
The death of a Tulsa man led his mother, and ultimately a Tulsa legislator, to push for a law requiring doctors to check an online registry when writing methadone prescriptions.
Panelists and audience members spoke in sometimes emotional and emphatic tones at a public forum in Tulsa, “Oklahoma Watch-Out: Straight Talk With Teachers.”