While waiting for a nomination to the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler cozied up with the senators who would decide upon his appointment in the most direct way possible: giving them money.
After Oklahoman Albert Kelly was banned from banking, Scott Pruitt tasked him with leading an effort to streamline the EPA’s Superfund program.
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The Frontier conducted more than 70 interviews to put the state’s undeclared rape crisis in perspective. The never-revealed stories of rape and sexual assault translate into hundreds of thousands of victims across the country each year.
Our five-part series uncovered a war-within-a-war that requires some victims to fight for their own justice while the government and other agencies struggle for personnel, funding and proven training methods to assist victims.
Nearly a decade ago, Landrith started his own rehab work camp where defendants must work full time for free at a local Coca-Cola bottling plant and other companies, under threat of prison if they don’t comply.
If our state leaders are unable to agree upon a sustainable revenue plan, by the start of the 2020 school year, we would be operating with a budget reduced by more than $50 million.
“He said, ‘Look, I have a couple of them in my area. Would you mind exempting them?’ ” recalled Republican Rep. Dale Derby, who sponsored the bill. “I wasn’t aware that he was on the board. I wouldn’t have done it.”