Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Watch is a non-profit organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism on important public-policy issues facing the state. Oklahoma Watch is non-partisan and strives to be balanced, fair, accurate and comprehensive. The reporting project collaborates on occasion with other news outlets. Topics of particular interest include poverty, education, health care, the young and the old, and the disadvantaged.
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Three years after Oklahoma voters approved medical marijuana, the state is finally poised to implement a tracking system that will ensure less illegal cannabis makes it onto dispensary shelves, via @pmonies @NewHealthOK #SQ788 #MMJ #cannabis -
Oklahoma continues to face a severe shortage of correctional officers, an issue advocates warn is causing widespread burnout and putting everyone who lives and works in state prisons at risk, via @_KeatonRoss @ACLU @OKPolicy
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State public health officials are feeling optimistic about the pace of vaccinations and lower cases and hospitalizations from COVID-19, leading to changes…
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A proposal to adjust the school funding formula could strip millions from urban and rural districts and shift it to others. Had it been in place this…
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Nearly 100% of Oklahomans were counted in the once-every-decade Census, which saw its data-collection period that came to an end Thursday. The state’s…
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This is a tale of two seniors in the northeast corner of Oklahoma.Miami High School classmates Gage Harris and Christian Wellman are among the 37,000…
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It was the kind of weekend inmates, guards and their loved ones fear.A series of coordinated gang fights broke out across six Oklahoma men’s prisons last…
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Two weeks ago DeAnna Ray received the phone call she has feared since early March.Her daughter Hannah, an inmate at the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center…
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Oklahoma’s teacher shortage is growing more severe with the spread of COVID-19. More teachers are opting for retirement than last year, and many say fear…
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Oklahoma, one of 10 states that doesn’t offer online voter registration, has seen a sharp decline in new voter sign-ups this year as COVID-19 has created…
