The Tulsa housing market kicked off 2025 with a significant surge in new home construction, recording 467 housing starts in January, more than doubling the 199 starts from the same month in 2024 according to the Tulsa Home Builders Association report released today.
WASHINGTON — FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance has been approved by President Donald J. Trump and is available to the state of Oklahoma to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by the severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding from Nov. 2-5, 2024.
FEMA’s mission is helping people before, during and after disasters.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond today in a release is urging legislators to significantly strengthen government transparency by passing House Bill 2163. His push for the measure comes during Sunshine Week, an annual event spotlighting the importance of public records and open government.
Authored by Rep. John Pfeiffer and Sen. Brent Howard, HB 2163 would statutorily create the Public Access Counselor unit in the Office of the Attorney General to review complaints where the requester believes a state department, board or commission has not addressed the request in a timely and reasonable manner.
Let’s hope this includes the Attorney General’s own office that is years past due in responding to this publication’s request for information on the unsolved Gertrude Marshall Blakey murder now over 44 years ago. The Tulsa Police Department will not release the file, claims the investigation is ongoing, but no investigation is being done. Someone is lying like a snake in the grass.
V1SUT.Substack today connects the dots on how Oklahoma’s power elite continues to betray voter’s desire to improve education. Of course, Tulsa’s “highly progressive” George Kaiser Family Foundation is a key player. Further, the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education (a non-profit with ties to USAID funding) is helping our two-stepping politicians pander to power and money.
Oklahoma’s initiative-petition process allows voters to determine major policy issues, but some system flaws have become apparent. That’s why Oklahomans should support bringing greater transparency to the petition process.
Under Senate Bill 1027, the initiative-petition process would have to include clear language, transparent reporting of funders, and buy-in from a wider swath of Oklahoma. None of these ideas should be controversial.
