COVID-19 Readiness

Is Oklahoma Ready for COVID-19 Surge?

Hundreds of deaths. Overwhelmed hospitals. Health-care workers improvising to protect themselves as infections spread. Oklahoma’s worst-case scenarios are grim. Beyond social distancing, here’s a look at 5 areas essential to the state’s defense.

Health Workers: Risks of Shortages and Exposure

Testing: Are Long Waits for Tests and Results Over?

Beds: Questions of Supply for All Patients

Ventilators: State Hunts for More Amid Concerns

Protective Equipment: Scramble to Build the Treatment Shield

Education

Proposals Would Restrict School Library Content and Limit Student Privacy at School; How You Can Weigh In

How They Voted: House Bid to Ban Physical Punishment of Students With Disabilities Fails

Criminal Justice

When Are Voting Rights Restored in Oklahoma? Legislature Considers Clearing Up Confusion

Cleveland Co. Commissioner: Jail Health Care Expansion Unrelated to Recent Deaths

Sheriff, Jail Health Care Provider Seek Public Money to Increase Staff After Two Women Died

Public Health

Interactive: Precinct Map Shows Rural, Suburban Opposition to Recreational Marijuana

After SQ 820 Loss, Marijuana-Related Justice Reform Shifts to Legislature

Oklahomans Languish in Jail Awaiting Mental Health Care, Federal Lawsuit Claims

Government

Contrasting the Censure of Rep. Mauree Turner With Inaction Against GOP Lawmakers

What To Know About SQ 820 and Legalizing Recreational Marijuana in Oklahoma

Oklahoma Considers Stiffer Petition Requirements for State Questions

ELECTIONS

Oklahoma Considers Separating State and Federal Elections if Voting Rights Acts Pass

Behind Stitt’s ‘Democracy is Doomed’ Remark and Other Election Issues Raised Monday

How Oklahoma Lawmakers Seek to Change Elections and Ballot Initiatives

Children

Changing the Narrative to ‘Us and We’ in North Tulsa

Students Walk Out to Protest Death Sentence

Revisiting Our Series: Conversations