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Oklahoman Vaccine supply in Oklahoma has outpaced demand for the shots, which means it’s now far easier to get vaccinated than it was weeks ago.  With COVID-19 vaccination appointments going unfilled in recent weeks, state health officials are trying to impart a sense of urgency and emphasize that the vaccines are a chance to get ahead of the virus as it swells in other parts of the country.  “It's so important that we get as many people vaccinated as possible as quickly as possible, so that we just don't give it the opportunity to resurge in our communities,” said Keith Reed, Oklaho...

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Hamilton: Death penalty’s risks are too high for state By: Arnold Hamilton Guest Columnist February 25, 2021 Arnold Hamilton Exhibit A: the death penalty. As it now stands, neither house is expected to take a deep dive into, much less seriously debate, state-sponsored executions, even though it’s long past time for Oklahoma to end the bloodlust. Yet somehow, the statehouse powers-that-be can make time to take up measures aimed at maximizing Republican political power – including temporarily filling U.S. Senate vacancies and taking steps to thwart the new Democratic president�...

Futile effort to help Trump may help shape some lawmakers' legacies Chris Casteel The Oklahoman Speaking to thousands of supporters who traveled to Washington, D.C., from all over the country, President Donald Trump thanked Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford by name Wednesday for being one of “our 13 most courageous members of the U.S. Senate.” A short time later, two miles away at the U.S. Capitol, Lankford lodged his objection to the Electoral College votes cast by Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden. It was Step 1 of the plan by Lankford and a group of other Republican senators to force the creat...

Hamilton: Choosing politics over principle Arnold Hamilton History will record that on Jan. 6, 2021, all five members of Oklahoma’s U.S. House delegation chose politics over principle. Will voters remember? If they truly care about our democratic republic, they will. On the same day an actual mob stormed the U.S. Capitol – leaving four dead and temporarily disrupting the constitutional process of affirming Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory – our state’s representatives joined a political mob stoked by meritless election fraud allegations. That’s not leadership. That’s sediti...