Political junkies rejoice! We invited longtime former House Democratic Leader Scott Inman to join us for Observercast Episode 25 – a June 30th election postmortem – to break down last week’s primary results and discuss what they portend for Oklahoma’s ...

Thousands of Oklahomans hang by a financial thread. Rent is due. Refrigerators are empty. Food lines are long. There’s overwhelming stress, fear and uncertainty. With unemployment claims up 1,612.44% since the first week in January and problems persist...

On Tuesday, June 30, Oklahoma voters can act where a Republican-dominated statehouse has fiddled for more than a decade – on Medicaid expansion. If State Question 802 is approved in primary voting, an estimated 200,

Tulsa became the epicenter of the world’s racial justice movement last weekend when Juneteenth commemorations, street protests against police brutality, and President Trump’s re-election kickoff collided in an often tense,

For more 30 years, ex-Tulsa Police Chief Drew Diamond has helped law enforcement agencies refocus their work as “peace officers” instead of paramilitary operations. An architect of, and expert on, the practice of community policing,

In Observercast Episode 20: Not The Future, The Right Now, we talked with state Sen. George Young, who grew up in Memphis in the 1960s, not far from the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

Will the murder of George Floyd – his very life snuffed out by a Minneapolis police officer’s knee – be the tipping point that finally helps America fulfill its promise of equality and justice? Or will it turn out to be just another dispiriting case of...

It unfolded over only 36 in-session days due to the pandemic hiatus, but the Oklahoma Legislature sure left a mark this session. In this episode of Observercast, we wrap up the highlights – and some would say,

In 2016, Oklahomans made clear they are tired of being the incarceration capital of the world, approving two state questions aimed at reversing decades of punitive, tough-on-crime policies and refocusing criminal justice on rehabilitation,

The 2020 Oklahoma Legislature tentatively waved so long to the Capitol on May 15, hoping its in-session work was complete two weeks before the constitutionally mandated 5 p.m. May 29 deadline. There was drama galore in the pandemic-shortened session: l...