OK PolicyCast

Legislature overrides Fallin veto on reading bill; Senate sends Fallin pension reform bill; Senate approves pay raises for targeted health care, public safety state workers; & more...

Fallin vetoes bill that would change third-grade reading law; Bill to make gross production tax break permanent heads to House; Oil firms’ investor reports strike different tone than CEOs’ warnings on production tax; & more...

Oklahoma lawmakers to unveil new drilling incentive; Oklahoma educators say proposed budget is essentially flat; Native Americans hold Capitol protest; & more...

Reactions to Oklahoma's FY15 budget deal; OK Department Of Labor investigates prison conditions; Fallin considering veto of third-grade reading bill; & more...

House approves three bills identical to bills vetoed by Gov. Fallin; Gov. Fallin signs agreement to uphold national standards to curb prison rapes; House committee rejects science education standards over teaching of climate change; & more...

Barresi calls for school activities funds to be used for school employee health insurance; New plan emerging to fix crumbling Oklahoma Capitol; State election board launches online voter tool; & more...

Oklahoma barely avoids mid-year budget cuts in April; House OKs emergency Corrections funding; revised education funding bill presented in Legislature; & more...

Legislature sends third grade reading reforms to governor; four-pound piece of concrete fall from ceiling in Capitol office; 7,000 indigent Oklahomans could lose mental health services; & more...

Nearly 8,000 third graders fail reading exam and face retention; Department of Education's handling of data release criticized; drought getting worse than Dust Bowl; & more...

Oklahoma Medicaid agency braces itself for budget cuts; bill would scrap local campaign finance law; court issues six-month stay of execution for inmate pending investigation of botched execution; & more...