Under Oklahoma’s Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, public retirement systems are banned from doing business with companies on a state blacklist for those accused of boycotting the fossil fuel industry.
The Frontier found the Oklahoma State Treasurer’s office applied criteria for blacklisting companies inconsistently, leaving some firms claiming they have been arbitrarily and wrongly banned from doing business with the state. The blacklist could have far-reaching effects on everything from financing for public works projects to how state payroll checks are processed.
Oklahoma has scheduled Glossip for death nine times since 2015. With just weeks remaining before his scheduled execution, he’s relying on an unlikely ally to save his life – Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
A statewide, five-year plan to address homelessness will likely go unfinished. No other group exists to track homelessness across Oklahoma.
Enel is considering the Tulsa Port of Inola as a potential site for a solar panel plant, which would create an estimated 1,500 jobs.
Some books Walters has called obscene have since been removed from libraries and other titles contain no explicit depictions of sex but do have gay, transgender or nonbinary protagonists.
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services’ central purchasing division didn’t review at least $3 billion in purchases that state agencies claimed were exempt from oversight during the 2022 fiscal year, according to a report the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency released Thursday.
Large parts of the state lack access to high-speed broadband. A state office tasked with fixing the problem has diverted some federal relief money for upgrades to public safety communications systems.
