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Stitt dissolves statewide council on homelessness
A statewide, five-year plan to address homelessness will likely go unfinished. No other group exists to track homelessness across Oklahoma.
International clean energy company eyes Oklahoma as lawmakers weigh incentives
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.
We fact-checked Ryan Walters’ claims about pornography in Oklahoma schools
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.
As hopes of confirmation wane, Governor replaces Ryan Walters as Secretary of Education
Walters, who had been serving as both Secretary of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction, was replaced by college professor Dr. Katherine Curry.
State agencies spend billions in taxpayer funds with little oversight and the numbers are growing, report finds
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.
Take a look at electric vehicle startup Canoo’s contracts with Oklahoma
Canoo has not yet received any incentive payments from the state, which are contingent on the company meeting hiring goals and other performance measures. Any money would come from Oklahoma’s Quick Action Closing Fund, a pot of state-appropriated cash intended to help the governor to lure new jobs to the state.
Oklahoma trims millions in pledged incentives to EV maker Canoo after delays and shifting plans
State officials voided one deal with the startup worth up to $10 million after the company missed a deadline to start construction on a factory in Pryor.
