THE 77
Reporting rooted in place, from all 77 counties — what the newsroom published, what neighbours filed, and what was filmed on the ground.
Reported and edited by The Colony, filed under the county it happened in.
Courtroom cameras can create spectacle. They can also create a public record, expose misconduct, broaden access, and turn an institution most citizens know only from television dramas into a living civics lesson.
Opinion: Jason Murphey argues an educator-heavy House Education Committee has become a mandate factory that hamstrings Oklahoma schools.
Opinion: Everett Piper argues Republicans should reject Cyndi Munson for governor and vote for Mike Mazzei.
The Sept. 8 agenda lists a policy for third-party record holders and fees, a REAP application for District 2 and a new-hire registration rule; the Aug. 31 burn ban came as 85 percent of the county entered severe drought.
The Sept. 8 agenda opens with the ban, then a $40,085 state grant for a District 2 dump trailer, eight pipeline-crossing permits, a jail population report and a closed session on seven county jobs.
The Sept. 8 agenda lists two closed sessions with counsel, one on the landowners' zoning case over the NextEra solar-and-battery site north of Enid and one on a federal wrongful-death suit against the sheriff, before six appointments to the Fairgrounds Trust Authority.
The Sept. 8 agenda carries a lease-purchase through Welch State Bank for a 2026 Ferrara pumper-rescue with $200,000 down, a week after the board considered a countywide burn ban and booked $29,138.63 in solar-farm road money.
Tuesday's agenda voids Resolution 27-16 and adopts 27-19 for the same CIRB money under a revised project number, weighs extending the burn ban enacted Aug. 24, and takes quotes to turn a Conex building into the 911 center.
A 75-megawatt threshold, a Google deal, and the tariff every future data center will be judged against.
A 6,583-megawatt shortfall, a data-center surcharge, and who ends up paying for the wire.
Fixed costs, a halved wheat crop, and the herd decision that takes ten years to undo.
Four districts. Three thousand parents. One coordinated response — and what it tells us about the next school board cycle.
After three months of hearings and an 8,000-signature petition. What happens to the staff — and the budget — next.
A FOIA fight that took eleven weeks. What the city was hiding — and the line item that finally surfaced it.
