Stephen Martin
Stephen Martin is an Oklahoma City-based journalist and contributor to Oklahoma Watch.
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Oklahoma's cannabis industry, once hailed as the next oil boom, is contracting under falling wholesale prices, oversupply and political pressure from Gov. Kevin Stitt to shut it down entirely.
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Rural hospitals are increasingly stepping in to fill gaps in the healthcare system, such as with swing beds. The services have become an opportunity and a lifeline to avoid closure.
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Oklahoma consistently ranks near the top nationally in per-capita fatal encounters involving police with about 8 deaths per million residents.