Two Lawmakers Ask the Supreme Court Whether Utility Customers Can Be Silenced
A $29 million gas increase, a challenge over who gets to object, and billions already in the pipeline.
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MAY 24 — JUL 13 · 19 FILEDA Fifteen Percent Increase, and an Intervention Deadline Customers Say They Never Saw
The Public Service Company of Oklahoma rate proposal now working through the Corporation Commission would raise the average residential electric bill by roughly 15 percent — on the order of $25 a mon…
The Race That Sets Your Power Bill Is on the Same Ballot and Nobody Is Talking About It
There is an election on November 3 that will do more to your monthly bills than most of the offices above it on the ballot, and it will be decided by a fraction of the people voting. The Oklahoma Cor…
Two Republicans, Six Hundred Votes Apart, and a Runoff Nobody Can Coast Through
Oklahoma is going to pick a governor the hard way. The June 16 Republican primary put Attorney General Gentner Drummond and former state legislator Mike Mazzei into a runoff, with Drummond at 26.5 pe…
The Institutions That Hold a County Together in a Bad Year
In a drought year the parts of a rural county that keep working are rarely the parts anyone budgets for. The measurable damage is easy to state. Oklahoma's 2026 wheat crop came in around 48.9 million…
The Patch Is Steady, Not Booming — and That Is the Honest Read
Talk to anybody who works in the Oklahoma oil patch and you get a more measured account than either the boosters or the obituary writers offer. The rigs are turning. There are not many more of them t…
What Half a Wheat Crop Does to a Family Operation
A statewide production figure is a useful thing and a cold one. It tells you Oklahoma made roughly 48.9 million bushels of wheat in 2026 against 101.1 million the year before. It does not tell you wh…
The Grid Question Nobody in a Small County Got to Vote On
A 6,583-megawatt shortfall, a data-center surcharge, and who ends up paying for the wire.
Drought Math on a Multi-Generation Ranch
Fixed costs, a halved wheat crop, and the herd decision that takes ten years to undo.
Harvest 2026: Half a Crop, and the Protein to Prove It Was Stressed
The 2026 Oklahoma wheat harvest is finished, and the size of it is not in dispute. Production came in around 48.9 million bushels. Last year the state made 101.1 million. This crop is roughly half of…
The 2026 Budget Was Done Early. Here Is What That Actually Bought You.
Oklahoma lawmakers moved fast in 2026. The session ran its three months, closed with an early budget agreement, and sent a slate of proposed constitutional amendments toward the ballot. Speed is not …
The Phones Are Gone For Good: What Changed in Oklahoma Classrooms on July 1
The bell-to-bell cellphone ban in Oklahoma schools is no longer a one-year experiment. Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 1276 in May, making permanent a restriction that had been running on a tr…
Oklahoma Gas Is Wanted Again — and the Buyer Is a Data Center
For most of the last decade the story of Oklahoma natural gas was surplus: too much supply, not enough pipe, and prices that made a new well hard to justify. That story is turning, and the reason is …
The Lobbyist Network Funding Oklahoma's Silence
Follow the money. Our three-month investigation traces dark money from out-of-state PACs straight to the legislators who killed transparency legislation last session.
Energy Sector Wins as State Rejects Federal Green Mandates
The headline wrote itself: Oklahoma rejects federal green mandates. The story underneath is more interesting. ## What the Rejection Actually Does The practical effect is narrower than the rhetoric — …
Oklahoma Parents Push Back on New Curriculum Mandates
The line outside the Norman district board meeting started forming two hours early. By gavel, the overflow room was full too. ## A Coordinated Response What began as a handful of parents in one distr…
Tulsa City Council Votes 6-3 to Defund DEI Office
The 6-3 vote was never really in doubt by the final week. The fight was over what replaces the office. ## What Happens Next The budget line does not simply disappear — it is redistributed. Where it l…
The Sheriff's Race No One Is Talking About
Three candidates. One is a sitting deputy. Another is a former federal prosecutor. The third changes the political math.
Why Oklahoma Should Be the First State to Defy the EPA
This is an argument, not a report. Read it as such. ## The Constitutional Case The Tenth Amendment is not a slogan. It is a structural commitment — and structural commitments are tested at the margin…
Merrick Q2 Fundraising — $280K and What It Signals
Two hundred eighty thousand dollars is not a war chest. At this stage, against these incumbents, it does not have to be. ## The Comparison That Matters Measured against the same point in the last two…
