I wrote about how AI is destroying my career and what it means that highly skilled jobs are being deskilled with nothing to replace them Link below 👇

www.koco.com/article/ponc... It's not mysterious. It's carbon black, from the nearby tire factory. Same thing happened 21 years ago. They ended it w a successful lawsuit, but it's happening again. I guess Trump's EPA has them emboldened. Ponca City is home to the Ponca tribe, & deeply impoverished.

An attempt to override a governor’s veto of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority has failed, putting the state’s public broadcaster on track to close. @oklahomavoice.com

New data shows overall homelessness dipped slightly for the first time since 2018, even as more families with children and unaccompanied youth fall into crisis.

Outside groups tied to dark money and wealthy donors are shaping Oklahoma’s Republican primaries with a barrage of political attacks. Many ads contain false or partially true claims.

A few hundred people gathered at the Oklahoma State Capitol on Tuesday, remembering their loved ones and advocating for solutions in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis. Officials also shared some of the ways they are working to solve cases.

An Oklahoma bill would make it a felony to deliver or possess with the intent to deliver an abortion-inducing drug to someone who plans to use it to terminate a pregnancy. It now heads to the governor's desk.

#foioklahoma By Spencer Humphrey, kfor.com: “You’re not invited, it’s for the community,” the company representative continued saying after denying News 4 entry. A security guard also told News 4 to leave. kfor.com/news/local/y...

It's not too late. Join us today at 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific to discuss the oil industry's trillion-gallon time bomb: its wastewater pollution crisis. Hear from reporters with @desmog.com @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social RSVP 👇 events.propublica.org/wastewater-c...

A new law heralded by Oklahoma Republicans as a method to grow the state’s housing supply appears remarkably similar to a ballot measure that voters soundly rejected less than two years ago, critics say. buff.ly/SKk3CW3

Join The Frontier and ProPublica for a reception and public screening of this documentary film, which features a local reporter’s journey to understand Oklahoma’s oilfield wastewater pollution problem.

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family wells are no longer safe to drink from without pricey treatment.

The head of the Cherokee Nation will not be invited back to speak on the House floor after he took a “political position” defending Medicaid expansion, the House speaker said Thursday. Oklahoma Voice reports: www.kgou.org/indigenous-n...

#foioklahoma By Natalie Armour, Anusha Fathepure & Thomas Pablo, oudaily.com: “(The letter) just puts everybody on notice, ...” Paul Arcaroli, ORED member, told OU Daily Friday. “What the letter says is we will sue for Open Meeting (Act) violation if you don’t put this to a public vote.”

#foioklahoma By J.C. Hallman, oklahomawatch.org: When compared to the most sophisticated smelters in the world, public records indicate Inola’s plant will be allowed to emit twice as much pollution in some cases. oklahomawatch.org/2026/04/13/e...

/2 While the city leaders were forbidden from disclosing of the plans, one expert when it comes to public records, contends the NDA contained a small but critical loophole. It did not forbid the release of information sought through use of the Oklahoma Open Records Act.

Meanwhile candidate for Oklahoma governor Gentner Drummond agrees to turn over our private voter data.

Oklahoma lawmakers want to rid our state of taxes, but with no plan B to pay for local government • Oklahoma Voice oklahomavoice.com/2026/03/30/o...

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

"I want a story, but not enough to get myself killed." Oklahoma's small-town editors speak candidly about local journalism's risks and rewards. https://ow.ly/8wKt50YC54H

A fluid leak has created a months-long dispute between a family and regulators over how the state is responding to what the family says is an oil-based substance seeping into their home. www.kgou.org/oil-pollutio...

Oklahoma lawmakers are quietly trying to buck tradition and manipulate election outcomes in hopes that a small, but energized Republican voting bloc will revisit issues voters have already decided. buff.ly/vueIkWx

Is Oklahoma No. 3 in the nation for law enforcement turning people over to ICE? @factbriefs https://ow.ly/JfLX50YuUqH

Opinion: A chorus of Oklahoma leaders apparently wants to rewrite Ben Franklin’s adage about life’s only two guarantees: death and taxes. Death, sadly, remains a certainty. But if the Republicans get their way, taxes will no longer be inevitable.

A congressional farm bill would permanently bar the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma from owning federal land designated on their reservation more than a century ago.

Charges against one officer illustrate how confidential records can hide when officers accused of wrongdoing move between departments.

Some of Oklahoma’s thousands of orphaned wells could find a new purpose for geothermal and energy storage use. www.kgou.org/abandoned-oi...

Charges against one officer illustrate how confidential records can hide when officers accused of wrongdoing move between departments.

Documents released through a FOIA request appear to show little to no oversight or records for how and when police access the AI-powered Flock camera system in OKC. | Brett Fieldcamp reports: freepressokc.com/docs-show-pr...

This is 🤯: Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act. @nickbowlin.bsky.social

Across Oklahoma, oilfield wastewater has continued to surface from the ground — even as regulators failed to contain it. This investigation examines how oversight fell short, how contamination spread and how families were left to navigate the consequences.

Oklahoma ranks 3rd in the nation for fatal police encounters. Plus, we dive into the Vesta Realty rental crisis and the future of the state's largest workers' comp insurer. Catch these stories and more on the latest Long Story Short with Shaun Witt. 🎧 https://ow.ly/Rcjm50YsqzY

After Brian Bonner died from a treatable illness in Tulsa’s city jail, records reveal a pattern of preventable deaths and ignored warnings.

In Oklahoma, state auditors discovered that an anti-abortion nonprofit disbursed less than 7% of the $1.6 million it promised to nonprofits under the state’s Choosing Childbirth program.

The state of Oklahoma is making insufficient effort to fix a system that keeps people languishing in jail instead of getting mental health treatment, according to U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell.

Oklahoma consistently ranks near the top nationally in per-capita fatal encounters involving police with about 8 deaths per million residents. Oklahoma Watch reports: www.kgou.org/oklahoma-fat...

Long before #ClevelandCounty took shape and #Norman and Lexington were fixed on the map, a small Black settlement stood along the #CanadianRiver near Chouteau Creek. But as white settlement expanded, the community faded from maps and memory. nondoc.com/2026/03/05/f...

Three Oklahoma law firms said they have not been able to schedule video calls, visit clients or drop-off legal documents since the facility reopened in December. One attorney was turned away in-person, while phone calls scheduled through the warden's office have rarely actually happened.

Sharing a post I made over on IG. The beginning of the month is coming up and many SNAP recipients may not be aware of the restrictions that went into effect on February 15th in Oklahoma. #SNAP #oklahoma www.instagram.com/reel/DU3HOQ1...

BREAKING: The Department of Justice is suing Oklahoma after the state’s election officials declined to hand over a list of registered voters and their personal information, including Social Security and driver’s license numbers.

The Department of the Interior is asking a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action complaint brought forth by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California over federal Indian boarding schools.

A new report shows Oklahoma’s student outcomes are at the lowest level on record, ahead of only West Virginia, Alaska and New Mexico. #oklaed https://ow.ly/3Grb50YlQF3

Oklahoma is racing to become a data center hub. But there’s a question looming over every development: What about the water? Our investigation found massive server facilities already using huge volumes — with more projects on the way. Read the story:

From Pryor to Stillwater and Muskogee, local officials say supplies are sufficient, even as Google alone used more than 1.1 billion gallons in a single year.

Ransomware gang threatens Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes after shutting down schools via @jgreig.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social cc: @andyjabbour.bsky.social

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

The City of #OKC needs more affordable #housing, and its primary program for to address homelessness needs more funds, according to the city's strategy implementation manager. Learn about that topic and more in this roundup. nondoc.com/2026/02/18/h...

Oklahoma fire crews are currently battling several wildfires that have consumed more than 150,000 acres in Oklahoma and Kansas. www.kgou.org/weather-and-...