Pandemic, staffing shortage shut down ICU beds in OKC; COVID-19 numbers surging in rural Oklahoma as hospitalization numbers reach record levels; Statewide Virtual Charter School Board votes to begin contract termination process against Epic Charter Schools
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Tulsa-based nonpartisan group addresses misinformation about SQ805; Virtual school board could consider terminating Epic contract today; Confirmed coronavirus cases in Oklahoma soar past 100,000;
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Gov. Kevin Stitt seeks to privatize Medicaid, faces early opposition; Oklahoma's COVID-19 hospitalizations reach new highs 4 of 5 nights; Small towns, suburbs across state lead weekly hotspots;
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By:
Dave Hamby
October 9, 2020 // Updated: October 9, 2020
Ensuring Medicaid expansion delivers on its full potential; Policy Matters: Blood sport politics has weakened state, country; Voting by mail increases exponentially in Oklahoma; Oklahoma House studies race relations, police and criminal justice reform
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Oklahoma's COVID-19 rankings improve, but White House task force says there have been 'many preventable deaths'; Are Oklahoma hospitals nearing ICU capacity due to COVID-19?; Oklahoma's voter registration deadline coming up Friday;
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Record numbers of COVID-19 patients hospitalized two weeks after Oklahoma declined to renew overflow contracts; Oklahoma health officials finalizing state's COVID vaccine plan;
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By:
Dave Hamby
October 6, 2020 // Updated: October 6, 2020
Campaigns for, against State Question 805 intensify; Health care groups form coalition to oppose SQ 814; Experts warn evictions may skyrocket in Oklahoma; An early look at the FY 2022 budget (Capitol Update)
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By:
Dave Hamby
October 5, 2020 // Updated: October 5, 2020
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'Epic owes Oklahoma $8.9 million': Improper transfers, chronic misreporting found by state auditor's investigation; Tenants and landlords agree that Oklahoma needs eviction reforms; COVID hospitalizations trending the wrong way in Oklahoma;
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Still in top 5: Oklahoma's new weekly cases, positivity rate double national average; Task force: Oklahoma among worst in nation in coronavirus; Weekly White House Coronavirus Report: Oklahoma Worsening, Tulsa Improving;
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