Oklahoma Legislature closes session with unfinished business
Friday's action on the House and Senate floors capped off four months of dramatic politics at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
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Friday's 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.