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The following is an op-ed by Joe Dorman, CEO – Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy The conversation of immigration continues to weigh heavily on many Americans, especially following the death of a Minnesotan over the weekend who was protesting.
Read moreThe American Red Cross of Oklahoma saw a surge in home fires as Winter Storm Fern rolled through Oklahoma and is urging families to heat their homes safely as freezing temperatures continue.
Read moreThe United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced Monday that five defendants in a drug conspiracy investigation entered guilty pleas in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
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Producer Sports Editor Bill Anderson measures the snow on his property in northeastern Seminole County Monday. Anderson reported depths of around 4 inches with drifts measuring about one foot.
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A suspect in a police chase that began in Seminole was shot by a Pottawatomie County Deputy after he failed to comply with orders following a brief foot pursuit near Shawnee last week.
Read moreA group of governors, led by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, is calling on the federal government to reassess their immigration enforcement policies.
Read moreThe Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn- based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the seventh national Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Neal’s two-channel video installation “Down the Barrel (of a Lens)” (2023) draws upon his time as a public artist in residence at New York City’s Department of Records, and it places the audience between two screens of declassified New York Police Department surveillance footage filmed between 1960 and 1980. As the first-prize winner, Neal will receive $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living individual for the museum’s permanent collection. “Down the Barrel (of a Lens)” will be on view as part of “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today” exhibition, co-curated by the competition’s director Taína Caragol, the Portrait Gallery’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, and Charlotte Ickes, the Portrait Gallery’s curator of time-based media art and special projects.
Read moreLast year, our caucus made a big effort to be out in communities throughout the state with meetings in Ardmore, Tulsa, Lawton, Oklahoma City, Midwest City, and multiple meetings at the Capitol to really listen to people, find out what their big concerns were, and the problems they’re facing. Again and again, we heard from Oklahomans telling us they’re struggling. They’re having a really hard time getting by and they don’t think their elected leaders are listening to them. People are working hard and still cannot afford the basics.
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