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As both Gov. Mary Fallin and Attorney General Mike Hunter call on the State Board of Health to revise two controversial medical marijuana rules, questions are being raised about how those rules were able to garner Fallin’s signature in the first place.
The Governor’s order to consolidate some school districts is getting big push back from educators.
The latest version of a budget bill intended to close a $215 million gap has passed the House on Wednesday. House Bill 1019 passed 56-38. The Senate will take it up Friday.
In a new statement on the latest budget plan from state legislators, Gov. Mary Fallin criticized the lack of progress during the nearly eight-week long special session and the failure to pass the latest bipartisan budget proposal.
Governor Mary Fallin’s office has chosen to remain neutral in the controversy over monuments to the confederacy which has been rekindled in the wake of the deadly white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, VA. last Saturday.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin's office says her trip to New York to visit with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday cost the state more than $6,000, mostly in fuel costs for the state airplane.
No special session of the Oklahoma Legislature will be held after Gov. Mary Fallin was unable to reach agreement with lawmakers on a plan for a teacher pay raise and the redistribution of $140 million in surplus revenue to targeted agencies.
After a press conference for her criminal justice task force Wednesday, Gov. Mary Fallin took questions from reporters on what will be done with more than $140 million dollars in leftover money from last fiscal year.
As the governor and legislative leaders continue to disagree over how to spend more than $140 million in available money from last fiscal year, agencies across the state feel the clock ticking.
Larry Yarbrough, who has been in the prison for about 20 years for having an ounce of cocaine on him in the late 90s, is up in front of the parole board on Tuesday to commute a life sentence without parole.
