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Fridays action on the House and Senate floors capped off four months of dramatic politics at the Oklahoma State Capitol.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma lawmakers are pressing forward with a $180 million economic incentive package reportedly geared toward bringing a solar panel manufacturing facility to a Rogers County port.

Legislation that would require Oklahoma public schools to teach about the civil-rights leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., has passed the state Senate and is headed to the governor’s desk.

Some black Democratic lawmakers say Martin Luther King, Jr. should get less emphasis in proposed instruction in Oklahoma schools with one legislator even dismissing King as “one palatable Black man.”

A bill already passed by the Senate to could soon make it more difficult for citizens to propose their own laws.

Several proposals would affect Oklahomans’ voting rights and ability to access public records.

HB 2451 was one of a handful of bills approved by a House subcommittee on Monday.

State Rep. Denise Crosswhite Rader sponsored House Bill 1415 to establish a mechanism for Oklahoma to separate state and federal elections should Congress pass certain voting reforms.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma roofers will no longer be able to waive insurance deductibles for consumers under a new law that took effect this month.

The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) just filed an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) brief in the Oklahoma Supreme Court in defense of the state’s abortion ban. The brief was filed on behalf of the ACLJ, more than 127,000 of its supporters (including more than 2,200 in Oklahoma), and...