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Enid's Mayor and Commissioners voted 6-1 on Oct. 27 to rezone agricultural land for Project Thunderbird. The developers' own website names no operator, calls the financing unfinished, and leaves the water plan incomplete. Guerrilla News warned the Board before the vote.
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The Lead KJRH reports that Broken Arrow Police Chief Lance Arnold called a news conference to speak as a private citizen about his administrative leave, then did not hold it after receiving a letter from the city. KJRH's headline says the letter forbids him from speaking. When a city side…
Enid's Mayor and Commissioners voted 6-1 on Oct. 27 to rezone agricultural land for Project Thunderbird. The developers' own website names no operator, calls the financing unfinished, and leaves the water plan incomplete. Guerrilla News warned the Board before the vote.
Three example referendum packets for Enid residents who want to challenge the Project Thunderbird rezonings, with ballot titles, signature sheets and filing notices. Proponent blocks stay blank. Have your attorney review them.
Coweta's response to request 26-116 now includes 27 of Chief Michael Bell's emails, 12 text screenshots, 18 dispatch radio recordings, the CAD log and the use-of-force file. Here is what is in the folder and what is still missing.
On Aug. 31, Coweta's chief emailed his PR firm that he was "very comfortable" with the officer who broke a 69-year-old's arm. The review board's chair asked officers for narratives the next morning. The risk pool had already opened a claim.
A cattle rancher two miles from the site is looking for somewhere else to live. Inola set an April 7, 2027 vote on banning the $4 billion smelter. On Oct. 15, Tulsa Ports voted to sue the town.
"It gets rezoned and then the protections don't come in until a data center moves in." Enid votes Oct. 27 on Project Thunderbird's rezoning. The developers have named no buyer.
The Lead About 180,000 Oklahomans have active driver's license suspensions tied to court debt, and the average suspension has lasted 38 months, Oklahoma Watch reports . Lawmakers heard testimony Oct. 13 on ending the practice, which at least 25 states have already done. Oklahoma is still…
Voters told Oklahoma to send SQ 780 prison savings to county treatment. A 2025 report puts savings at $202.3 million and county investment at $37.5 million. Three words in the statute let lawmakers wait six years.
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