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Apartment debate divides Pasco commissioners A recent request to convert a commercial property to multifamily use tests the commission’s resolve to take inventory before approving more apartments.     Nine apartment complexes are under construction or planned for the State Road 54 and SR 56 corridor in southern Pasco County. The apartment-building boom has sparked a public debate among Pasco commission members wondering how many is too many when it comes to multifamily housing. Updat...

Oklahoman An Oklahoma progressive advocacy group has vowed to challenge state legislators who change state law to limit protests.  Oklahoma Progress Now is asking its supporters to pledge to help unseat up to 17 Republican state lawmakers who introduced 11 bills the group says would challenge the right to protest.  The bills seek to change how Oklahomans can protest around the state Capitol, prevent the doxxing of law enforcement officers, limit protesting in streets, and would add rioti...

Progressive group vows to challenge Oklahoma legislators who limit protests Carmen Forman, Oklahoman © Bryan Terry, Bryan Terry Protesters march during a Black Lives Matter rally in Oklahoma City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. [Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman] An Oklahoma progressive advocacy group has vowed to challenge state legislators who change state law to limit protests.  Oklahoma Progress Now is asking its supporters to pledge to help unseat up to 17 Republican state lawmakers ...

San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images When the University of California system canceled its bundled journal subscription deal with publisher Elsevier and walked away from contract negotiations in 2019, it wasn’t clear whether the two parties would ever be able to get back on the same page. The UC system wanted to save money and stop supporting the production of research that is inaccessible to the public. Elsevier offered to combine the costs of accessing paywalled content an...

Rep. Sterling: Recent Bills passed by the House

The bills author says it has nothing to do with Bidens political party and has everything to do with the high number of executive orders he has already issued just one month into his presidency.

HB 1816 doesn’t designate any one type of animal species as the state pet, so it can be a cat, dog, turtle or any number of animals

27 Feb 2021 The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would allow the state to put the brakes on the power of President Joe Biden’s executive orders there. HB 1236 would allow the Oklahoma state legislature to review each executive order and determine if the order should be given to the Oklahoma attorney general, who would determine if it is allowed under the U.S. Constitution. If the attorney general deemed an executive order unconstitutional, the bill seems to indica...

Credit Serge Melki Oklahoma House Republicans passed a bill on Thursday to give the legislature power to determine whether federal actions are constitutional. House Bill 1236 says lawmakers would refer a determination on whether a presidential order, federal rule or congressional action is constitutional to the state attorney general, but if their office doesnt act on that determination, the legislature can declare the action unconstitutional by a simple majority vote. Rep. Andy Fugate (D-Del C...

By: News On 6 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - From the political fight for the funding to the final touches, the capitol renovations have taken almost a decade. Now, they are finally nearly complete just in time for the next legislative session. “The Rotunda’s my favorite part, just looking up at the ceilings and the state seal and it’s just beautiful,” said Governor Kevin Stitt who gave News 9’s Kelly Ogle an exclusive tour of the renovations. “It’s the people’s house. It just kind o...