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Friday, in honor of Earth Day 2022, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing nearly $800 million in climate-smart infrastructure (PDF, 587 KB) in 40 states, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. These
Read moreRichard Coffey has been selected as the new head of the Oklahoma State University Department of Animal and Food Sciences within OSU Agriculture. The Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents approved the action at its meeting on March 25. He is expected to begin his role on July 1.
Read moreOklahoma City Indian Clinic (OKCIC), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit clinic providing health and wellness services to American Indians in central Oklahoma, aims to help families stay on track for their child’s recommended vaccinations.
Read moreRep. Sheila Dills, R-Tulsa, this week secured passage of a bill that will limit the biological sex designation on an Oklahoma birth certificate to male or female.
Read moreRecently, the Stillwater Board of Education announced it will not change course on its policy of allowing boys to use the girls’ bathrooms unless given “no choice” by state officials.
Read moreOn Wednesday, April 20, 2022, I personally delivered a book to each Oklahoma Legislator’s office called Shared Ideals in Public Schools: Enduring Values that Unite Parents and Educators. I outlined the book a year ago on a series of notecards in a meeting with my local legislators as a possible path to restore local control to public schools. Parents and local educators solve the toughest, most controversial of issues at the kid level every day, but kidlevel issues can rarely be fixed by faraway strangers from Capital City or Washington D.C. Central planners do not necessarily have bad intentions; they are just too far away from the local realities.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits (OKCNP) has announced the winners of its annual Oklahoma Nonprofit Excellence (ONE) Awards. The awards ceremony and accompanying dinner were held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa on Saturday, April 9, 2022. The event was emceed by Dave Davis, co-anchor of 6 in the Morning on KOTV.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association (OBEA) recently honored University of Central Oklahoma professional media students at its annual student broadcast competition with 25 awards for student-produced multimedia journalism, audio/radio and video/television broadcasts.
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