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Corey Jones Tulsa World The state's relocation of the Public Health Lab from Oklahoma City to sharing a refurbished building in Stillwater with a newly created Oklahoma Pandemic Center hit another bump with the resignation of the project's director only four months in. An association that supports local and state public health labs wrote Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state officials in October to express "significant concerns" and warn that moving the lab "so quickly into an interim facility" not designed for the purpose will be "very challenging and costly." The dominant concern, according to t...

Invisible Man: A Hard Look at Mayor Eric Johnson Eric Johnson’s escape from poverty reads like a fairy tale. But his story took a turn when he became mayor. Why has he disappeared from so many of his old friends' lives? By Peter Simek Published in D Magazine May 2021 Photo Illustration by Natalie Goff, Photography by Bret Redman, and Courtesy It was more than four hours into the June 5, 2020, special meeting of the Dallas City Council called to discuss the George Floyd demonstrations, and Mayor Eric Johnson had no more patience for bullshit. Johnson had sat quietly listening to one residen...

Staff shortages and equipment transition for the relocated Public Health Lab in Stillwater have caused state health officials to outsource certain tests to

Relocated public health lab outsources some tests By: Paul Monies Oklahoma Watch February 19, 2021 Comments Off on Relocated public health lab outsources some tests Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, center holding scissors, and state Cabinet secretaries pose during a Jan. 21 ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly relocated state Public Health Lab in Stillwater. (Oklahoma State Department of Health) Staff shortages and equipment transition for the relocated public health lab in Stillwater have caused state health officials to outsource certain tests to private labs, and in some cases to a p...

Deadly Snake Found Coiled Up Inside Woman's Nightgown In Bedroom 01/29/21 AT 8:01 AM A woman in Australia was terrified after she found a venomous snake coiled up inside her nightgown. Cheryl Gilchrist was getting ready for bed when she put her hand into her pajama drawer and felt the red-bellied black snake. "It didn't feel quite right so I've looked and touched it again and I thought 'oh my god, that's a snake," she told 7News. Gilchrist was lucky as she didn't get bitten by the deadly snake, as any kind of "harassment" can cause the reptile to "lash out and deliver a rapid bite, and so...