State general revenue could splash over into Rainy Day Fund; Stitt mulling attorney general appointment; Oklahoma awarded $53 million in CDC funding to address COVID-19-related health disparities;
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Study: Oklahoma Prosecutors Are Strong Lobbyists; Plan For Child Care And Development Fund Released; State employment agency freezes some payment cards over fraud concerns;
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Health officials are hopeful Medicaid expansion and new safe syringe program will curtail Oklahoma’s Hepatitis C deaths; Cherokee Nation Pre-Enrolling Citizens Into Medicaid; With an evictions moratorium ending soon, Oklahoma officials look at possible reforms;
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Shelf-life extension will save 75,000 J&J vaccine doses at risk of expiration in Oklahoma; Bill intended to roll back SQ 780 fails to move forward; What you need before applying for Oklahoma’s expanded Medicaid;
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Nearly 100,000 Newly-Eligible Oklahomans Have Enrolled In Medicaid During First Week Of Expansion; White House Vaccinations Coordinator Dr. Bechara Choucair Speaks With KWGS About Vaccine 'Sprint'; States rebound from bleak forecasts to pass record budgets;
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DHS Working To Eliminate Medicaid Waiver Waitlist; Advocates Express Concerns; State lawmakers earmark $42 million for rural broadband expansion; State uncovers 'scheme to commit fraud' for meal reimbursement at day care centers;
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More than 51,000 Oklahomans have been approved for benefits through Medicaid expansion; Fate of Medicaid privatized managed care uncertain after Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling; Oklahoma law journal details contributions of Black lawyers, civil rights struggles in court system before and after 1921;
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Gov. Kevin Stitt gets three finalists for Oklahoma Supreme Court vacancy; COVID-19 in Oklahoma: One-third of Oklahomans are fully vaccinated as virus cases continue dive; Harvard professor talks Tulsa Race Massacre reparations and white supremacy during 'National Day of Learning'
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