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Chicken-Fried News: Vegan virtue
By Gazette staff
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, Kevin Stitt, Mary Fallin, Tulsa, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, vegan-friendly, vegan, Tracy Reiman, Chimera, Brady Arts District, Roppongi Ramen, Lone Wolf Banh Mi, The Local Bison, Elote Café & Catering, Bakeshop Tulsa
Chicken-Fried News: Secretive Sooners
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, CFN, Secretive Sooners, Sooners, Black Hole Award, Freedom of Information Oklahoma, Andy Moore, NASA, Scott Pruitt, Edmond Police Department, Larry Stevens, OU, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Supreme Court, Mary Fallin, FOI, Joseph Harroz, James Gallogly
Chicken-Fried News: Nobamacare
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, State Question 802, Medicaid expansion, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Mary Fallin, The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, rural hospitals, hospital closure, Patti Davis, Oklahoma Hospital Association, 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, health care
Powerful women
Following one of its most successful years, a local nonprofit continues recruiting and training progressive women to run for office.
By Miguel Rios
Tags: State, News, Sally’s List, Sara Jane Rose, Alyssa Fisher, lobbying, recruiting, candidates, candidate training, Kendra Horn, elected office, public official, pro-choice, progressive candidates, women candidates, state capitol, Planned Parenthood, Sally Rae Merckle Mock, Annie’s List, nonpartisan, nonprofit, civic engagement, education, health care, economy, criminal justice reform, Carrie Blumert, Nikki Nice, Chelsey Branham, Powerful Women, Tina Tchen, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, White House Council on Women and Girls
Letters to the Editor: August 28, 2019
By Letters to the Editor
Tags: Letters to the Editor, House Bill 2597, letters to the editor, Mary Fallin, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, State Question 803, SQ803, HB2597, Matthew Ruiz, MAPS, City Hall, Civic Center Music Hall, courthouse, landscaping, John Smelser
Shots fired
The debate over permitless carry laws in Oklahoma continues.
By Nikita Lewchuk
Tags: State, Jennifer Birch, Moms Demand Action, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Oklahoma 2nd Amendment Association, OK2!, Second Amendment, gun rights, gun control, Don Spencer, permitless carry, Kevin Stitt, Mary Fallin, firearms, red flag laws, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, ERPO, Carl Newton, Lori Walks, Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, Mayflower, NRA, National Rifle Association
Cover: Green state
June 26 is the one-year anniversary of the vote to legalize medical cannabis. Oklahoma Gazette looks back at the first year and glances toward the future for the cannabis plant in the state.
By Matt Dinger
Tags: The High Culture, cannabis, medical cannabis, marijuana, medical marijuana, Jon Echols, State Question 788, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, OMMA, THC, J. Blake Johnson, Climb Collective, Overman Legal Group, economy, economic impact, Mary Fallin, House Bill 2612, unity bill, House Bill 2601, cleanup bill, HB2612, HB2601, Leslie Collum, Oklahoma County District Court, Chris “Uncle Grumpy” Moe, Chris Moe, Norma Sapp, House Bill 1269, HB1269
Factchecking Oklahoma: Is state ed funding up $2 billion?
Former Gov. Frank Keating co-wrote an op-ed claiming state ed funding increased $2 billion, but appropriations numbers tell a different story.
By Mollie Bryant
Tags: State, education, education funding, Frank Keating, Larry Parman, taxes, public school funding, Oklahoma Senate Republicans, Oklahoma State Department of Education, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jeff Hickman, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Curtis Shelton, Office of Management and Enterprise Services, OMES, appropriations, Deana Silk, National Assessment of Education Progress
Cover: Shadow of doubt
Seven years after DACA was implemented, Dreamers continue wrestling with the uncertainty of their future.
Tags: State, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, Dreamers, immigration, undocumented, Donald Trump, Trump administration, Barack Obama, Obama administration, Denver, Juarez, Colorado, Mexico, college, scholarships, driving, Javier Hernandez, immigration attorney, Tasneem, Al-Michael, Taz Al-Michael, Brisa Ledezma, Miriam Ortega, Yovana Medina, ywca, historic Capitol Hill, Santa Fe south, Merlin Bell, Chelsey Branham, Oklahoma Bar Association, Jalisco, CATO Institute, Migration Policy Institute, economy, American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, deportation, Video
Chicken-Fried News: Columbus circling
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Kevin Stitt, Native American Day, Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus, Cherokee Nation, Native American, Mary Fallin, Native American Heritage Month, Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes, Chickasaw Nation, West Africans, Norsemen
Chicken-Fried News: Number crunch
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, ZIP codes, Oklahoma City-County Health Department, life expectancy, Tinker Air Force Base, health care, education, income, healthy food, crime, infectious disease, Gary Cox, OKC-County Wellness Score
Standardized testing
Legislation is moving forward to create a uniform way of testing and tracking sexual assault kits.
Tags: State, Kay Floyd, Matthew Stillwell, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, OSBI, rape kits, sexual assault kits, sexual assault legislation, sexual assault forensic evidence task force, Mary Fallin, Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, Senate Bill 967, SB 967, Senate Bill 971, SB 971, Senate Bill 975, SB 975, Oklahoma Police Department, Tulsa Police Department
Face value
Oklahoma City Museum of Art puts Kehinde Wiley at the center of its permanent collection.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, Kehinde Wiley, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA, Barack Obama, Michael Anderson, From the Golden Age to the Moving Image, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, George Bellows, John Singleton Copley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Brincel Kape’li Wiggins Jr., Gerard ter Borch, Jacob de Graeff, code switching
Chicken-Fried News: Moldy mansion
Tags: Chicken-Fried News, Chicken-Fried News, Mary Fallin, Christina Fallin, governor’s mansion, Kevin Stitt, Office of Management and Enterprise Services, OMES, repairs, Donelle Harder
Oklahoma turnaround
Kevin Stitt has five pillars to make Oklahoma a top 10 state, but Oklahomans have their own ideas of what he should do.
Tags: State, Governor, Oklahoma, state, Andy Moore, Richard Johnson, David Blatt, Let’s Fix This, Oklahoma City University, political science, Oklahoma Policy Institute, OK Policy, Kevin Stitt, Gov. Stitt, Mary Fallin, budget, education, economy, healthcare, rural hospitals, Pauls Valley Regional Medical Center, Becker’s Hospital Review, Morning Consult, Oklahoma’s Turnaround, justice reform, medicaid, Department of Human Services, Department of Corrections
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