Mark Yates, vice president of the Advanced Power Alliance, joins us for Observercast 2.8: Those Electrons Are Gonna Flow to discuss renewable energy, the recent weather-related calamities that struck America’s power grid,

House Democratic Caucus Chair Cyndi Munson joins us for Observercast 2.7: A Lack of Compassion to discuss proposed legislative bills that are anything but friendly to workaday Oklahomans, including HB 1564 that would prevent courts from halting evictio...

OKC Sen. Julia Kirt joins us for this week’s Observercast 2.6: By The Power Of Loft to discuss the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency’s blistering draft report on Gov. Kevin Stitt’s CARES Act spending and why the governor’s handling of federal r...

As a buckle on the evangelical Bible Belt, Oklahoma has a long and dispiriting history of anti-LGBTQ policymaking, intolerance and vigilantism. It’s a shameful legacy being revived in the 2021 Oklahoma Legislature.

State lawmakers kicked off their 2021 session Monday with less than the usual pomp and circumstance – an acknowledgement of the reality that Oklahoma remains locked in the coronavirus’ killer grip. While Gov.

Frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009, the minimum wage is more accurately described as a starvation wage. Once the purview of teenage and part-time workers, it now is the primary income for an increasing number of full-time adult workers navigating a flo...

Oklahoma’s Founding Fathers clearly were wary of too much power in too few hands. One of the first planks they nailed into the state Constitution – reflecting the populist spirit of the time – was People Power,

If you think the Oklahoma Legislature took a giant step toward solving public education’s chronic funding problems three years ago when it approved the state’s first tax increase in a quarter century, think again. Sadly,

So where do Oklahoma Democrats go from here? Once the state’s dominant party, they’re now a super-minority in the Legislature, shut out of the DC delegation and 0-fer all the statewide elective offices. As we conclude our first season of Observercasts ...

Despite being promised otherwise, COVID-19 did not disappear from the headlines the day after the presidential election. In fact, nearly a month later, the pandemic’s grip on America – and Oklahoma – is tighter than ever,