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Oklahoma Watch Executive Director
As the insurance commissioner's term wanes, a hearing. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready denied a request for a public hearing on homeowners insurance competitiveness in April, then called for an identical hearing six weeks later. Critics say ...
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Drummond sues, Mazzei flip-flops. That, a cute dog, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed suit Tuesday to stop construction of the country's largest proposed aluminum smelter at the Port of Inola, citing pollution threats and public nuisance concerns...
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The state treasurer has been making a lengthy commute on the taxpayers' dime. Is he supposed to do that? That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ is using a state-funded unclaimed property office in Clinton, 85 miles from Oklahoma City, as a personal commuting hub, according to GPS data from a state vehicle. The tre...
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A Wyoming political group will give you a chance to win a cruise if you donate to their preferred Oklahoma candidate. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A Wyoming-based dark money group is offering Oklahoma political donors a chance to win a cruise for contributing at least $50 to preferred candidates in the 2026 election cycle. The effort has drawn q...
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Wyoming group offers a chance to win a cruise for those who donate to their Oklahoma candidates. Can they do that? That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A Wyoming-based dark money group is offering Oklahoma political donors a chance to win a cruise for contributing at least $50 to preferred candidates in the 2026 election cycle. The effort has drawn q...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-476/
7 days ago
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Summer School: How districts are learning new reading laws. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma educators are spending their summer preparing to implement sweeping new reading requirements under the Strong Readers Act, including third-grade retention for struggling readers starting in 2...
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8 days ago
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There's a special edition of First Watch today. A multiple-fatality accident was cleaned up so quickly that the dead body of an 8-year-old girl went unnoticed for six hours. That and other stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Special Edition - Oklahoma Watch
An eight-year-old girl lay undiscovered for six hours after a Guymon crash that killed her and her grandfather when a drug task force officer's vehicle, traveling 85 mph in a 70 mph zone, struck their...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-special-edition-3/
8 days ago
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Today's First Watch newsletter examines the effect of the Iran war on energy markets from coal to natural gas to WTI. That and more stuff you should know!
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
The Iran war and Strait of Hormuz closure are rippling through global energy markets, pushing oil above $97 a barrel Thursday after Iran targeted a U.S. airbase, driving jet fuel to record prices and ...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-474/
11 days ago
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Oklahoma's veteran suicide rate is nearly double the national average. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's veteran suicide rate of 56.9 per 100,000 is nearly double the national veteran rate and ranks third in the country. Providers point to inadequate mental health treatment access, high rates ...
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12 days ago
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Federal bill could eliminate stay-to-play, private equity from youth sports. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A federal bill introduced Wednesday would require private equity firms to divest from youth sports within two years and ban practices like stay-to-play, where tournament participation is contingent on...
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13 days ago
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New law streamlines criminal record expungements. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma has signed a law creating an automated expungement system that advocates say will clear records for more than 300,000 Oklahomans with nonviolent convictions and pardoned offenses. The law fol...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-471/
14 days ago
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Business as usual? Oklahoma Watch found out about a trove of old State Farm whistleblower documents that have been in a local attorney's care for decades. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A binder of internal State Farm documents compiled by a whistleblower with Oklahoma roots has surfaced at an Oklahoma City law office, offering a 30-year window into the company's corporate philosophy...
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18 days ago
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Lawmakers tried, again, to get some balance into the Landlord Tenant Act. They didn't get very far. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's tenant protection bills failed this legislative session, leaving renters without new legal remedies against problem landlords. House Bill 2015, which would have given courts power to hold l...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-469/
19 days ago
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Why Todd Russ steered TSET investments to a different firm, a black and white landscape by Jared Haynes and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ steered a $2 billion investment consulting contract to a Christian firm whose principals were deeply intertwined with his own advisors and anti-ESG allies during the biddi...
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20 days ago
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Bond Payne's firm withdrew it's controversial proposal to manage Invest in Oklahoma money, Gregory Ballos provided a unique photo taken in Guthrie, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. Go ahead and subscribe. It's free!
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/05/18/campaign-contribution-may-have-scuttled-investment-advisory-bid/
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21 days ago
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Richard Glossip walked out of an Oklahoma County jail Thursday, Leah Horstman's mooving photo, and more stuff you should know i today's First Watch newsletter. Read and subscribe!
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Richard Glossip, who spent nearly 30 years in Oklahoma prison and came within hours of execution nine times, was released Thursday after a judge set bond at $500,000. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a ...
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School districts look for ways to adapt to spate of legal changes. That, a Carl Shortt Jr photo, and more stuff you should know in today's FIrst Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's legislature is sending a cascade of changes to public schools, including mandatory third-grade retention for struggling readers, a permanent cellphone ban, longer school years, more recess ...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-464/
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Oklahoma passed a record-high education budget. The state still has the lowest per-pupil spending in the region. That, a David Gaede photo, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma lawmakers are celebrating record education funding, but the state still ranks 49th in per-pupil spending nationally and last among surrounding states. Despite recent increases, Oklahoma remai...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-463/
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Tariffs cratered China's U.S. soybean demand. And that's Oklahoma's biggest soybean market. That, a Bruce Baggenstoss photo, and more stuff you should know in Today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma soybean farmers are navigating a cascade of financial pressures: trade war fallout that cut China's soybean purchases by 78%, fertilizer prices driven up by tariffs and the closing of the Str...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-462/
28 days ago
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A far-right faction of the state GOP wants full party control. A Brent Fuchs Photography photo. And more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A fast-growing faction called the Abolitionists is taking control of Oklahoma's Republican Party, pushing to criminalize abortion as murder and target any politician who resists. The movement, which h...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-461/
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The attorney general doesn't like the Invest in Oklahoma deal. At all. That, a photo by Monkeytree Photography, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has refused to approve a contract awarded to a firm owned by Gov. Kevin Stitt's former chief of staff, citing collusion and undisclosed conflicts of interest...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-460/
about 1 month ago
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Keaton Ross answers all your State Question questions and Terri Jo Littau provides a regal closeup. There's that and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter (to which you really should subscribe).
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Everything Oklahoma Voters Need to Know About State Question 832 Oklahoma’s minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009. State Question 832, which appears on the June 16 primary ballot, would chang...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-459/
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Oklahoma has a great deal for adults who want to finish their degrees. But getting people re-enrolled hasn't been easy. That and more stuff you should know, plus a photo by Tonya Kaapke, in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma has 413,576 working-age adults with some college credit but no degree, and the number returning to finish fell nearly 14% in 2023-24 even as reenrollment rose in 42 other states. State progra...
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Oklahoma's rural hospitals are adapting to survive, but pressure keeps building. That, Philip Busey's photo, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's rural hospitals are reinventing themselves to survive, expanding swing-bed rehabilitation programs, outpatient services and specialist partnerships to fill gaps in the healthcare system. Bu...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-457/
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Nearly four years after their arrests, Epic Charter Schools co-founders David Chaney and Ben Harris are headed to trial. That, Cassie Beeson's photo, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
An Oklahoma County judge ruled Thursday that nearly all criminal charges against Epic Charter Schools' founders can proceed to trial, rejecting a key defense argument that public funds became private ...
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Sheriff’s Lieutenant Left Journals Documenting Corruption. His Death Remains Unresolved. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A Pottawatomie County Sheriff's lieutenant died of a gunshot wound ruled a suicide in April 2023. His daughter disputes that finding, citing journal entries documenting corruption concerns, inconsiste...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-453/
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Lobbyists take legislators out to eat. Newcomers object. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter, with a photo by Kathy Toth Lowe.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Lobbyists have spent more than $414,000 on meals, beverages and gifts for Oklahoma lawmakers since January 2025, averaging $2,819 per legislator. At least 11 Republican primary challengers have vowed ...
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Oklahoma led the charge to public pre-K. The state is still 5th, but enrollment is dropping. That, a Loyd Cole photo, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma ranks fifth nationally in preschool access for 4-year-olds, but enrollment has dropped from 76% to 65% since 2019. Researchers and local advocates say many parents simply don't know free pre-...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-451/
about 2 months ago
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More close ties in state's billion-dollar advisory deal. That and mroe stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter:
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ hired the same lobbying firm that represented the parent company of a financial firm he then recommended for a lucrative state investment advisory contract. The shared lob...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-450/
about 2 months ago
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There's something in the air over Lamont, and it's not good. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Scientists detected a banned toxic compound called medium-chain chlorinated paraffins in the air near Lamont, Oklahoma — the first time the substance has been found in the atmosphere over North Americ...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-449/
about 2 months ago
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Filming spiked with new incentives in 2021, but it didn't last. Now, even California is offering incentives. Can Oklahoma compete? That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's film incentive program has generated more than $531 million in economic impact since 2021, but employment and wages have fallen sharply since a peak that year. State officials and local fil...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-448/
about 2 months ago
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State Farm declined to share the report on a retired judge's roof claim. He lawyered up.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A retired federal administrative law judge in Edmond found himself caught in State Farm's alleged hail claim scheme after the insurer denied his roof claim, refused to share the adjuster's report and ...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-447/
about 2 months ago
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The Landlord-Tenant Act has barely changed in 50 years. That's been good for landlords, not so good for tenants.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's Landlord-Tenant Act has changed just twice in nearly 50 years, and both times only modestly. A bill by Rep. Daniel Pae would give tenants the right to sue landlords who fail to make health ...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-446/
about 2 months ago
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Embezzlement charges, racketeering charges, now the IRS too. Oh, my.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
The IRS has identified potential excess benefit transactions between Epic Charter Schools and its founders' for-profit management company, even as it allowed the school to keep its nonprofit tax statu...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-444/
about 2 months ago
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There are many questions about the planned smelter in Inola. Answers are scarce.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Residents near Inola pressed Oklahoma Primary Aluminum for answers about pollution, livestock health and drinking water at a March open house, and left largely unsatisfied. The proposed smelter, major...
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When Invest in Oklahoma needed to hire an investment advisor, Gov. Stitt helped choose his former chief of staff and business associate.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt voted to award a multibillion-dollar investment advisory contract to a firm run by his former chief of staff and one-time business partner, without any board discussion of th...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-442/
about 2 months ago
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Oklahoma's child advocacy centers don't have enough money to keep up with the rise in demand, which the Tulsa district attorney estimates as a fourfold increase in child sexual abuse cases. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's 21 Child Advocacy Centers are straining under sharply rising caseloads of child sexual abuse, driven by increased reporting and the proliferation of online predatory contact. One Tulsa-area prosecutor now sees as many cases in a week as he once saw in a month, while rural counties face geographic and staffing barriers.
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about 2 months ago
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Big-time Oklahoma landlord has big-time problems. And his tenants are getting the short end of the stick. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A Kansas lawsuit by a former business partner accuses Vesta Realty CEO Marc Kulick of using company funds as a personal piggy bank while concealing financial distress from investors. Multiple former employees confirmed the allegations and described a cult-like workplace culture as tenants across Oklahoma continue living in properties many call uninhabitable.
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-440/
2 months ago
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The law says Native Americans who work and live on reservation land don't have to pay income taxes. Not so fast, said Oklahoma. The U.S. Supreme Court let the state's decision stand. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case that could have exempted tribal citizens from Oklahoma state income taxes, leaving in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling against Muscogee Nati...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-439/
2 months ago
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Oklahomans have been waiting more than a year for wildfire mitigation grants. That and more you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
More than a year after the March 2025 wildfires killed four Oklahomans and burned 170,000 acres, federal mitigation funding remains unapproved — an unprecedented delay that Oklahoma emergency official...
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Republicans Push State Questions to Low-Turnout August Ballot
Oklahoma Republicans are steering several high-stakes state questions to an August primary runoff ballot in a move critics say is designed to reshape voter-approved policies with minimal public partic...
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How small-town newspapers are holding the line. That and more stuff you should know in today's FIrst Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's small-town newspapers are stretched thin by shrinking staffs and economic pressures, even as vigilante journalists and social media groups rush to fill the void. Interviews with 26 editors ...
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How constructive evictions leave tenants untethered. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
An Edmond family was evicted after withholding rent from a national real estate investment company that failed for months to repair fire hazards, water damage and a missing carbon monoxide detector in...
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Evictions leave families homeless, uncounted. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Joe Martin, a 41-year-old father evicted from a Talala trailer park after a Utah investor bought the property and hiked rent 40%, spent months in hotels and couch-surfing with his children while never...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-434/
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard why State Farm should reveal homeowners insurance documents and why State Farm thinks they should remain secret. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma's Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over State Farm's effort to block document production in the Hursh hail claim case, now the centerpiece of more than 900 lawsuits alleging a com...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-433/
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Who's behind that literacy ad blitz? That answer and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
A 95-year-old Tulsa philanthropist is spending nearly $1 million on a statewide ad campaign urging parents to pressure lawmakers to strengthen Oklahoma's reading laws. John Brock, a retired oil and ga...
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Tobacco. Vapes. Heated cigarettes. Taxes. That plus more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma lawmakers are struggling to reach a deal on modernizing tobacco and nicotine excise taxes, even as a bill cutting taxes on heated cigarettes passed the House this week. A broader agreement co...
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2 months ago
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Introducing: Free Time
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Introducing: Free Time
“Free Time isn’t just a new product—it’s a total wellness optimization platform. It’s not an app but rather a mind-blowing vessel of unstructured time where ...
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2 months ago
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Hundreds of thousands paid to consultants but ODMHSAS is still in violation as sick detainees languish in jails. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter.
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma is violating a federal consent decree by leaving hundreds of defendants with serious mental illness waiting in county jails for months without competency restoration treatment. A federal judg...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-430/
2 months ago
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Duncan bicycle stops violated state law, but that didn't stop the arrests. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter:
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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch
Duncan police have arrested at least 11 people on drug and other charges following bicycle stops based on a city ordinance superseded by state law in 2021. Oklahoma's Idaho stop law allows cyclists to...
https://oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/first-watch-stuff-you-should-know-429/
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