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Oklahoma lawmakers called themselves into a special session on Wednesday to give them additional powers over the direction of $1.87 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds under the American Rescue Plan Act.
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Oklahoma gave a Florida company a no-bid contract to distribute $18 million in pandemic relief money as a test-run for school vouchers. Now federal investigators are eyeing the deal.
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Oklahomans did not get an accurate picture of COVID’s toll on the state’s most vulnerable population because the state’s reporting method was unreliable. Federal data shows at least 512 residents who died are missing from state reports.
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Conservative Oklahoma lawmakers are working to ensure the state shies away from the mitigation efforts it implemented early in the coronavirus pandemic.
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In the last week, Oklahoma legislators acted on more than 400 bills in the House and Senate. With a committee deadline upon them, they employed numerous procedural methods to push favored legislation forward.
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Residents have been missing out on cancer screenings, diabetes management and other services that prevent and detect disease.
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Education will be one of the major focuses of Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma lawmakers during the 2022 legislative session.
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State Auditor Cindy Byrd independently released her office’s investigation into the state department of health, which found it might have broken the law in its race to secure PPE at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Amid a raft of closures and pivots to distance learning, teachers reported stress levels so far unseen during the pandemic, according to a survey of Oklahoma Education Association members.
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As of Thursday, more Oklahomans are in the hospital for COVID-19 than any time in the pandemic.