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Two data center developers want to rezone 2,400 acres of Piedmont farmland and drain 1.7 GW from the grid. One held an open house. The other banned the press. The city council votes Monday.
A town administrator faces allegations of financial misconduct and nepotism as a packed room of citizens demands answers. When the confrontation intensifies, sheriff's deputies arrive. What happened next was captured on camera.
A small Oklahoma town board voted to give its mayor sole authority to hire and fire police, minutes after being warned it violates state law. The police chief was placed on leave. A judge called it "what kings are made of."
A Rogers County citizen filed a sweeping grand jury petition naming the mayors of Claremore and Inola, nine councilors, and the county commissioners over secret NDA deals, walking-quorum emails, and a $65,000 records fee demand.
When citizens challenged a suspiciously vague executive session item about "economic development," officials refused to say what they were discussing behind closed doors. The confrontation over Oklahoma's Open Meetings Act escalated fast.
The Pentagon sent a general. The DOE sent an assistant secretary. Trump sent a letter. The residents of Inola sent them all home and voted unanimously at midnight to freeze the smelter.
Inola's town council passed a 60-day moratorium freezing all smelter permits. Tulsa Ports fired back calling it a "regulatory taking." Now residents are collecting signatures to put the smelter's fate to a public vote.
A $4B aluminum smelter backed by the UAE government is headed for rural Inola, Oklahoma. Residents were kept in the dark by NDAs while officials approved $1.3 billion in new power capacity that could hike electric bills 15%. Now the AG is suing to stop it.
A police chief investigated his own city government over a secret data center deal. He cleared them of crimes, then admitted under questioning he never looked into the one document that started it all.
Inola officials blocked citizens from two public meetings on a controversial aluminum smelter, then threatened a reporter with arrest for calling it out. Leaked texts and confrontational footage tell the rest.
A 3-month rookie officer claims he can enforce fire codes he has no jurisdiction over, blocking citizens from an open public meeting. Then things get physical. Watch what happens next.
