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State-operated mental health clinics may get new management tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
State-operated mental health clinics may get new management
The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services issued a request for proposals to operate the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Lawton, Fort Supply, McAlester and ...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
State-operated mental health clinics may get new management tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Initiative launched to organize Oklahoma's 488,000 independent voters tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Initiative launched to organize Oklahoma's 488,000 independent voters
Oklahoma Independents organizer Andy Moore's main target is Oklahoma's closed primary elections.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Initiative launched to organize Oklahoma's 488,000 independent voters tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Child care group sues state over termination of subsidies for school-age kids tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Child care group sues state over termination of subsidies for school-age kids
In its lawsuit, the Licensed Child Care Association suggests DHS postponed revealing the extent of the child care shortfall until after the 2025 legislative session so the agency could implement cuts ...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Child care group sues state over termination of subsidies for school-age kids tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Oklahoma independent voters likely to be left out of 2026-2027 primaries tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Oklahoma independent voters likely to be left out of 2026-2027 primaries
Independents, who constitute about one-fifth of the state's registered voters, have always been barred from Oklahoma's Republican and Libertarian primaries, but the Democratic Party has allowed them i...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Oklahoma independent voters likely to be left out of 2026-2027 primaries tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Oklahoma Democratic Party chairman resigns tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Oklahoma Democratic Party chairman resigns
The father of a teenage son, Rep. John Waldron said he has become too stretched "working at four jobs," referring to state party chairman, legislator, part-time Holocaust educator and adjunct Universi...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Oklahoma Democratic Party chairman resigns tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
State agencies seek 14% boost in appropriations; higher ed, capital projects among biggest asks tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
State agencies seek 14% boost in appropriations; higher ed, capital projects among biggest asks
At least $270.2 million in requests from various agencies appears to be related to the prospect of reduced federal funding, including for emergency management services.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
State agencies seek 14% boost in appropriations; higher ed, capital projects among biggest asks tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Political notebook: State revenue report mixed tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Political notebook: State revenue report mixed tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
D.C. Digest: Boat strike "a good hit" Mullin says tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
D.C. Digest: Boat strike "a good hit" Mullin says
U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin defended the administration's boat strikes by saying military commanders have an obligation not to take unnecessary risks with their own personnel.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
D.C. Digest: Boat strike "a good hit" Mullin says tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
TU program gets nursing students into the community tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
TU program gets nursing students into the community
The SCRUBS program aims to provide better access to basic health services while also exposing students to real world experience.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
TU program gets nursing students into the community tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Tulsa Community College OK'd for first bachelor's degree program tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Tulsa Community College OK'd for first bachelor's degree program
TCC said it expects to begin enrolling students in its bachelor of science in child development curriculum in the fall 2026 semester.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Tulsa Community College OK'd for first bachelor's degree program tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Oklahomans spending on 2026 congressional elections — just not in Oklahoma tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Oklahomans spending on 2026 congressional elections — just not in Oklahoma
A search of the Federal Election Commission campaign reporting database for 2025 turned up 466,000 transactions involving donors with Oklahoma addresses.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Oklahomans spending on 2026 congressional elections — just not in Oklahoma tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Political notebook: New judge in Epic Charter School case tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Political notebook: New judge in Epic Charter School case
The resumption of a preliminary hearing has been set for Feb. 25-27 after almost a year's interruption in the state's case against the online charter school's founders.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Political notebook: New judge in Epic Charter School case tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
D.C. Digest: Cole rated one of Congress' most effective members tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
D.C. Digest: Cole rated one of Congress' most effective members
Oklahoma's Fourth District congressman was Republicans' third-most effective member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 118th Congress, a joint university project found.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
D.C. Digest: Cole rated one of Congress' most effective members tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Two memorial services scheduled for Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
Two memorial services scheduled for Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher
Those attending the Tulsa service are encouraged to wear all white.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Two memorial services scheduled for Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
State representative wants legislators' pay raises overturned tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
State representative wants legislators' pay raises overturned
Rep. Molly Jenkins, R-Coyle, said she's asked Attorney General Gentner Drummond to determine if the Board on Legislative Compensation acted illegally by meeting in executive session before approving t...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
State representative wants legislators' pay raises overturned tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Tulsa area receives nearly $100 million in tobacco settlement grants tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Tulsa area receives nearly $100 million in tobacco settlement grants
The Tulsa-area grants from TSET included $17.36 million to the city's North Tulsa Wellness Initiative led by the city's new led by the City’s Office of Health & Well-Being.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tulsa area receives nearly $100 million in tobacco settlement grants tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
D.C. Digest: Cole warns Congress already looking at another deadline showdown tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
D.C. Digest: Cole warns Congress already looking at another deadline showdown tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Political notebook: State rep wants Drummond to lay off chicken processors tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Political notebook: State rep wants Drummond to lay off chicken processors
Rep. David Hardin, R-Stilwell, wants Attorney General Gentner Drummond to lay off chicken processors
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November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Political notebook: State rep wants Drummond to lay off chicken processors tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Health insurance 'crisis on our hands': Many could see ACA, other premiums doubling tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Health insurance 'crisis on our hands': Many could see ACA, other premiums doubling
Those receiving the temporary premium tax credits from 2021's Affordable Care Act expansion have gotten the most attention. ACA base premiums are rising 29%, according to the Oklahoma Association of H...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Health insurance 'crisis on our hands': Many could see ACA, other premiums doubling tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Surprising finds during Race Massacre graves search tell story of Tulsa's early years tulsaworld.com/news/local/r...
Surprising finds during Race Massacre graves search tell story of Tulsa's early years
"We weren't expecting there to be, essentially, what is an archaeological site within the (Oaklawn) cemetery itself ... this big accumulation of artifacts from the early years of Tulsa," one of the re...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Surprising finds during Race Massacre graves search tell story of Tulsa's early years tulsaworld.com/news/local/r...
Stitt's abortion-related executive order paused by Medicaid board tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Stitt's abortion-related executive order paused by Medicaid board
To participate in SoonerCare, providers would be required to submit a "signed attestation disclosing whether they or any related entities engage in abortion-related activities."
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November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Stitt's abortion-related executive order paused by Medicaid board tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Lankford talks about stalemate in DC, Epstein files, new Tulsa VA hospital tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Lankford talks about stalemate in DC, Epstein files, new Tulsa VA hospital
Could Congress be in the same sort of stare down 2½ months from now as the one that consumed the past six weeks? "I am afraid of that," the senator said Wednesday.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Lankford talks about stalemate in DC, Epstein files, new Tulsa VA hospital tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Micro nuclear reactors could soon power the nation's oil and gas exploration
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Micro nuclear reactors could soon power the nation's oil and gas exploration
The proposition is a stretch, but maybe not as much as one might think, testimony at an Oklahoma House of Representatives interim study last week suggested.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Micro nuclear reactors could soon power the nation's oil and gas exploration
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25-foot law enforcement buffer: What Oklahomans need to know about new law
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25-foot law enforcement buffer: What Oklahomans need to know about new law
"Importantly, this law does not prohibit individuals from recording law enforcement activity in public" as long as it does not cause any delay, obstruction or interference," according to the Tulsa
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November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
25-foot law enforcement buffer: What Oklahomans need to know about new law
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Federal judge rejects request for sanctions against Department of Mental Health tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
Federal judge rejects request for sanctions against Department of Mental Health
U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell denied the plaintiffs' request while noting jailed defendants "continue to endure long wait times for restoration treatment, often in conditions that exacerbate th...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Federal judge rejects request for sanctions against Department of Mental Health tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...