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First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Residents near Inola are pushing back against plans to build the largest aluminum smelter in the country a mile from their homes. A local chemical engineer found the facility's proposed hydrogen fluor...

Inola residents don't want to share their town with the country's largest aluminum smelter and they think they can stop it. That and more stuff you s should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern appears to have filed at least 10 stock trade disclosures late, covering between $4.2 million and $17.6 million in transactions, potentially violating the STOCK Act. Hern's of...

Kevin Hern traded millions in stocks. Did he report those trades correctly? That and more you shoul dknow in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready approved CompSource Mutual Insurance Co.'s plan to convert from a mutual to a stock company, allowing it to raise capital and expand. Two Ponca City polic...

CompSource plan approved, then immediately challenged. Let the lawsuits begin. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Tenants at Tulsa-based Vesta Realty properties across Oklahoma describe months of unresolved flooding, mold, collapsed ceilings and winter stretches without heat or hot water. One former employee lost...

He plays high-stakes poker and lives in a Tulsa mansion, but Jake Ramsey's investigation found a trail of unpaid bills, uninhabitable apartments and tenants with no recourse. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch A Tulsa woman learned there is no body camera footage of the police shooting that killed her brother during a mental health crisis, despite filing an open records request and being quoted $3,000 for v...

Tulsa PD forgot to turn on the body camera. Then they shot someone having a mental health crisis. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma ranks third nationally in per-capita fatal police encounters, recording 383 deaths over 12 years at a rate of roughly 8 per million residents. A review process built on legal standards focuse...

Oklahoma in third in fatal police encounters. That, and more stuff you should know, in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Frank Myers, a Rogers County mobile home tenant, was evicted after refusing to sign a rent-to-own contract and withholding rent to protest unresolved hazards including a propane leak and electrical sh...

Here's how rent-to-own schemes leave tenants without a place to live. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch The legal battle over State Farm's alleged hail claim underpayments in Oklahoma has grown to more than 900 cases, with two Grady County motions to dismiss denied in February. A Chickasha judge ruled t...

Legislators are taking another run at cash bail bonds, which favor people with plenty of cash. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch The legal battle over State Farm's alleged hail claim underpayments in Oklahoma has grown to more than 900 cases, with two Grady County motions to dismiss denied in February. A Chickasha judge ruled t...

Did your agent know State Farm had a hail-claim scheme? At least some did. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

Goalie Connor Hellebuych will get a Medal of Freedom for his 41 saves on 42 shots (97.6%) in Team USA's overtime gold medal win against Canada. Aerin Frankel saved 30 of 31 (96.8%) in the women's overtime gold medal win against Canada and got ... nothing.

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Native American tribal leaders say the Trump administration's push to dismantle the Department of Education has left tribal education programs in limbo, with transfers to other federal agencies alread...

Why tribes are fuming over federal education shuffle. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch A 2014 Oklahoma law bars cities from creating rental registries, leaving tenants struggling to identify negligent landlords and hold them accountable. Two Oklahoma City renters discovered their landlo...

Here's how an Oklahoma law passed in 2014 helps bad landlords hide from their tenants. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma Republican Tom Cole and Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro have built one of Washington's most unlikely friendships, using it to shepherd all 12 annual appropriations bills through the House t...

Tom Cole is half of Congress' Odd Couple and why they're so important. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Republican state lawmakers in Oklahoma and at least five other states are pushing back against rapid data center expansion, proposing moratoriums and tax credit repeals despite broad GOP support in Wa...

State legislators are pushing back against their federal counterparts over data center proliferation. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma's Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust investment board voted 3-1 to adopt anti-ESG policies championed by State Treasurer Todd Russ, aligning the $2.2 billion fund with conservative "Oklahoma ...

The Tobacco Settlement Trust's investments must now reflect "Oklahoma values." That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch State Farm denied the roof claim of a 73-year-old Tulsa woman who was a loyal customer for 53 years, eight days after the attorney general filed RICO charges over similar denials. A manager overruled ...

State Farm's policy on paper doesn't match practice. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch More than 30 Oklahoma law enforcement agencies have signed federal agreements deputizing officers as ICE agents. A raid in Oklahoma City's Asian District in January sent shockwaves through the Vietnam...

More than 30 Oklahoma police agencies have financial ties to ICE, which has the nation's largest law enforcement budget. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch The federal government awarded Oklahoma $223 million for rural health care, potentially growing to more than $1 billion by 2031. The grant came weeks after Gov. Kevin Stitt warned legislators that the...

Federal health money in, federal health money out. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma voters went to the polls on Feb. 10 for municipal elections without access to campaign finance records after the state's new online filing system failed. The Ethics Commission terminated its ...

What's missing from municipal elections? Financial transparency. Here's why. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch ICE and private prison companies are rapidly expanding Oklahoma's detention infrastructure as federal policy subjects most immigrants to mandatory detention without bond hearings. CoreCivic reopened t...

ICE hides, lawyers seek. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch Newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma has become an ICE arrest hub after Gov. Kevin Stitt deputized state agencies and 28 local law enforcement agencies signed federal agreements. A Chinese man with a legal work permit and pendin...

Sequoyah County: Yingchao Fan's car rolled over in the January storm. OHP responded and arrested him for ICE, despite his work permit and asylum application. That's happening throughout the state. That and more in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Payne County prosecutors are pursuing a sexual assault case against 18-year-old Canyn Porter differently than they handled Jesse Butler's case last year. Butler received counseling and community servi...

Two teens, same DA, similar sexual assault allegations. One's father ran OSU football; the other lives in a trailer. Equal justice? That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch State Farm denied a roof claim for Karen Powers, who spent nearly 40 years selling insurance for the company while battling cancer. An adjuster threatened she would be fired if her family hired a publ...

A State Farm rep was loyal for decades. As she was dying, she found out it was a one-way street. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma's Family Representation Advocacy Program expanded to 50 counties in February but needs $5.5 million more to reach all 77 counties. The program provides attorneys, social workers and peer ment...

Oklahoma devised a $16 million plan to help families facing child removals and funded it with $11 million. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Republican gubernatorial candidates loaned themselves $7.6 million ahead of the June primary, far exceeding donations from individuals and political groups. Mike Mazzei leads with $3 million in person...

Republican gubernatorial candidates have poured $7.6 million of their own money into their campaigns. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

Fist Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Attorney General Gentner Drummond's lawsuits against natural gas marketers for price manipulation during the 2021 winter storm could go to trial this year. One case survived dismissal and faces an Aug...

Oklahomans will pay billions for natural gas bought during a 2021 winter storm. The case against the gas marketers might finally be headed to court. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

Fist Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Attorney General Gentner Drummond's lawsuits against natural gas marketers for price manipulation during the 2021 winter storm could go to trial this year. One case survived dismissal and faces an Aug...

Bill would let churches sidestep zoning to build low-income housing. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch A State Farm-requested bill that would have eliminated penalties for insurance companies fighting homeowners claims failed 72-18 in the Oklahoma House last May. The bill would have exempted property i...

State Farm tried to change the law so they wouldn't have to pay interest on slow-moving claim settlements. Plus, Devon is off to Houston, and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch Congress moved major farm programs into budget reconciliation instead of a comprehensive Farm Bill, leaving a narrower legislative agenda ahead. Oklahoma cotton grower Charlcey Plummer grew her best c...

The Farm Bill ain't what it used to be. And that's got Oklahoma producers nervous. That and more stuff you should know in today's First Watch newsletter: oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

Fist Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa School of Community Medicine is cutting staff and closing clinics to address an $18 million deficit caused by Medicaid privatization and falling patient revenue. The s...

$18 Million Deficit at OU-Tulsa Med School Leads to Cuts. That and More You Should Know in Today's First Watch Newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...