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Oklahoma Lobbyists Spent Big During the 2025 Legislative Session
Oklahoma Watch
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June 30, 2025
Oklahoma lobbyists spent more than $220,000 on food and beverages for lawmakers during the 2025 legislative session. The $222,300 in spending, reported from January 1 to May 31, is a 13.6% increase from the first five months of 2024. Ten years ago...
Oklahoma lawmakers love to grade schools. Here’s a taste of their own medicine: A report card.
Oklahoma Voice
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June 30, 2025
Covering Oklahoma’s Legislature for over a decade, it’s difficult not to feel cynical about the end of session and all the work left undone because they focused on inconsequential or unnecessary priorities. So back in February before this year’s...
Oklahoma lobbyists captured on video at cockfight, group claims
The Oklahoman
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In videos secretly captured in 2025, two leaders of the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission political action committee were reportedly seen at a cockfight in rural Oklahoma. The footage released by Animal Wellness Action, captured by a hidden camera and...
ZestyAI Secures $15M Credit Facility from CIBC Innovation Banking to Support Strategic Growth
GlobalFinTechSeries
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June 30, 2025
Facility reinforces ZestyAI’s financial strength and supports the expansion of its AI-driven risk analytics platform ZestyAI, the leading provider of AI-driven risk analytics for the property and casualty insurance industry, today announced it has...
Universities in every state care for congressional papers that document US political history − federal cuts put their work at risk
The Conversation
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June 30, 2025
In 1971, the president of Mississippi State University, Dr. William L. Giles, invited President Richard Nixon to attend the dedication of U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis’ papers to the university library’s archives. Nixon declined, but the Republican...
Investors fear bankruptcy waiver permitted former Pickleball Rocks CEO to escape prosecution
Indianapolis Star - Indiana
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Ron Ponder doesn't expect to get back the money he invested with Rodney Grubbs, but he still hopes for justice for others who loaned millions of dollars to the disgraced Hoosier pickleball entrepreneur. Ponder, a retiree from Oklahoma who referees...
Hoover Business Happenings: July 2025
Hoover Sun - Alabama
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June 30, 2025
NOW OPEN Taziki’s Mediterranean Café held a ribbon cutting for its new location at 5880 Elsie Road in the Knox Square shopping center in Trace Crossings on June 3. 205-255-5858 Hoover Steaks and Wines is now open at 5868 Elsie Road in the Knox...
Oklahoma Lottery Pick 3, Lucky For Life results for June 29, 2025
The Oklahoman
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The Oklahoma Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at June 29, 2025, results for each game: Winning Pick 3 numbers from June 29 drawing 5-1-6 Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here. Winning Lucky For...
Greenwood business owners say it's safe to visit downtown Tulsa
FOX23 News - Oklahoma
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TULSA, Okla. — Business owners in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District said it is safe to visit, shop, and tour Black Wall Street after a shooting during Juneteenth that left one man dead. “It’s disheartening to hear people say they don’t feel safe...
Oklahoma leaders push to save E-7 Wedgetail program amid Pentagon budget cuts
News9 - Oklahoma
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The future of the E-7 Wedgetail aircraft program, which is set to replace the aging E-3 Sentry AWACS fleet stationed at Tinker Air Force Base, is uncertain as the Department of Defense considers canceling the program in its latest budget proposal....
Why Oklahoma's 'different' style of recruiting and culture under Brent Venables has appealed to so many players
Yahoo Sports
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Why Oklahoma's 'different' style of recruiting and culture under Brent Venables has appealed to so many players originally appeared on A to Z Sports. As soon as Brent Venables assumed the role as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, he immediately...
“Oklahoma” at Park Playhouse in Washington Park proves it’s not wasy to be free
WAMC - New York
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June 29, 2025
There’s an old saying that claims, “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” That seems wise, but such a simple statement can be complex. Park Playhouse is the theater company beginning a four week run of “Oklahoma” in Albany’s Washington Park....
Politics Reuters Republican Senator Mullin says babies born in US should be deported if parents are
Yahoo News
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(Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin said on Sunday he believes babies born in the United States to immigrants living in the country illegally should be deported alongside their parents if the adults are removed. Mullin's comments...
NEA Business Notes: Hedger Hired As Arvest Mortgage Lender In Jonesboro
Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
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June 29, 2025
Arvest Bank has hired Dana Hedger to the position of mortgage lender at the bank’s Greensborough Village branch in Jonesboro. Hedger has 15 years of banking experience and previously served as a mortgage loan officer and a financial center manager...
Oklahoma Lottery Powerball, Lotto America results for June 28, 2025
The Oklahoman
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The Oklahoma Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at June 28, 2025, results for each game: Winning Powerball numbers from June 28 drawing 04-35-43-52-62, Powerball: 12, Power Play: 2 Check Powerball payouts...
Property values reach new highs and DOUBLE in tiny Oklahoma city of 3,000 due to marijuana boom
Daily Mail
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June 29, 2025
Property values in a small Oklahoma town have soared as experts believe the legalization of marijuana is behind the boom in prices. Marijuana growth within the state surpassed that of traditional wheat and cotton in 2021, just a couple of years...
Average VA home loan amount in Oklahoma falls in Q1
Sooner State News - Oklahoma
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June 29, 2025
The average VA home loan amount in Oklahoma during the first quarter of the fiscal year 2025 was $290,503, a 0.4% decrease from the previous quarter, according to the Veterans Affairs Home Loans Index.Oklahoma's average VA loan amount during the...
Oklahoma Dental Association critical of Stitt's executive order on fluoride
FOX23 News - Oklahoma
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Oklahoma Dental Association (ODA) have come out to criticize to Governor Kevin Stitt's executive order removing the recommendation of fluoride in public drinking water. The ODA says that public water fluoridation has...
Experts warn bankruptcies, suicides could rise as Missouri prepares for sports betting
News Tribune - Missouri
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June 29, 2025
Missourians will be able to bet on sports this year, though not by the start of football season. That's in part because of a decision by Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to reject the Missouri Gaming Commission's emergency rules, which...
Oklahoma Lottery Mega Millions, Pick 3 results for June 27, 2025
The Oklahoman
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The Oklahoma Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at June 27, 2025, results for each game: Winning Mega Millions numbers from June 27 drawing 18-21-29-42-50, Mega Ball: 02 Check Mega Millions payouts and...