Who’s afraid of state Superintendent Ryan Walters? Legislative leadership clearly is. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say they’re afraid of Walters’ voters, who wield outsize influence in low-turnout

The quest to obliterate Oklahomas strict constitutional prohibition against spending public tax dollars for religious purposes goes to the U.S. Supreme Court this week. State courts ruled the propose

There are good bills. Bad bills. And bills best described as, well, Grade A cow patties, flies buzzing all around them, the stench wafting across the state. On todays Observercast, Oklahoma City Rep.

The 2025 Legislatures final eight weeks begin today with a daunting list of constitutionally mandated tasks and oft-inane or diabolical public policy proposals still on the agenda. Will there be an i

Across the land, Democrats are engaged in soul-searching. On a national level, its the fallout from Donald Trump reclaiming the White House. In Oklahoma, its the partys superminority status in the

Gov. Kevin Stitt rode into office in 2019 having rarely voted and with little idea how government worked. Separation of powers? In Stitts mind, that was how the CEO divvied up the work for the minion

Oklahomas public health infrastructure worked hand in glove with the first Trump presidencys public health response, complete with the botched unemployment software and rollout as well as preemptive

To say Donald Trump is obsessed with immigrants would be an epic understatement. From the moment he rode down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his 2016 presidential campaign through his 2024 b

Its official: Oklahoma recorded the nations lowest age-eligible voter turnout in the November general election a Code Red warning that our body politic is on life support, if not in a death spiral

In a reality where the full spectrum of reproductivehealthcare protections has been rolled back or eliminated nationwide by the disastrous Dobbs U.S. Supreme Court decision, Oklahoma legislators stil