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State Question 845: What Oklahoma voters need to know before November 3 (opens the original)
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Time magazine called it one of the most shocking judicial scandals in U.S. history. In the mid-1960s, three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices were implicated in a far-reaching bribery and corruption scheme. Two of them resigned. The third was impeached. Hoping to restore public trust in the judicial system, Oklahoma lawmakers proposed an overhaul. Instead of running for election, judicial candidates would apply for the bench via an independent Judicial Nominating Commission. The commission would t
This USDA lab has studied threats to food and farms for decades. Now its scientists must relocate (opens the original)
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Earlier this summer, Manan Sharma received an email with some unwelcome news: to keep his job, he'd have to move across the country in a matter of months. Sharma worked as a food microbiologist for more than two decades at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland, a federal facility just outside Washington, D.C. "You can't easily replace what BARC is or represents," Sharma said. His research unit studied how pathogens that cause foodborne illness enter produce through soil and wat
"It's hard to stay afloat": Oklahoma borrowers describe life under the new student loan system (opens the original)
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Katrina Harris, a single mother in Oklahoma City, takes on contract jobs on the side to afford her student loan payments. Harris went to school for her bachelor's, master's and doctorate of pharmacy. Now, she owes the U.S. Department of Education more than $200,000. The salary from her six-figure job is still not enough to comfortably cover her student loan payment each month. When student loan payments resumed after the pandemic-era freeze, the number of borrowers in default grew by about 4.2 m
Oklahoma state auditor flags $25 million in questionable federal spending across three agencies (opens the original)
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Oklahoma State Auditor Cyndi Byrd's report for fiscal year 2024, released Monday afternoon, questioned costs totaling nearly $25 million in federal funds. Although the questioned costs decreased dramatically from fiscal year 2023, which boasted $93 million, the federal government can still demand a refund from the state of every questioned dollar. Byrd and her staff examine all of Oklahoma's federal grant programs with expenditures greater than $30 million and report their findings in a single f
First Bell - Oklahoma Watch (opens the original)
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Thursday, November 12, 2026 – 11:30 AM to 1:00 PMOCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater, Oklahoma City, OK Join us for a timely community forum examining the future of public education in Oklahoma immediately following the 2026 general election. “First Bell: Getting To Work For Oklahoma Students” brings together statewide education leaders and local decision-makers to discuss policy priorities, district needs, and the practical challenges facing classrooms across the state. The program b
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