Neva Hill
Political commentatorNeva Hill has been a political commentator for KOSU since 1998.
Hill been professionally active in Oklahoma Republican politics and journalism for more than 30 years. She is the owner and president of Neva Hill & Company, a full-service political consulting and public relations firm located in south Oklahoma City. Currently, Hill is a consultant to a number of federal, statewide, county, and legislative officeholders across Oklahoma. She has also been a political analyst for OETA-TV election night coverage.
She was also the publisher and editor of The Hill Report, an insider’s report on Oklahoma politics and government, which ended 26 years of weekly print publication when it was sold to an online political newsletter owned by Mike McCarville in the fall of 2006.
In 2004, she was named one of three Oklahoma women to serve on the National Steering Committee for “W Stands for Women” – along with then-Lt. Governor Mary Fallin and Terry Neese, president of Women Impacting Public Policy. In 1992, Neva served as State Director of the Bush-Quayle campaign.
Hill served as Assistant Commissioner of Labor for the State of Oklahoma in 1987 under Governor Henry Bellmon. The following year, she managed the successful state senate campaign for Tom Cole, who later became elected to the United States Congress.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses Oklahoma City voters overwhelmingly supporting a measure to use a penny sales tax to build a new downtown arena for the Thunder, State Rep. Mark McBride fighting with Superintendent Ryan Walters' aide over what McBride calls immaturity and a lack of transparency and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss a challenge to an initiative petition to raise the state's minimum wage, Attorney General Gentner Drummond's formal opinion saying women could not be prosecuted for having abortions and the head of the State Republican Party opposing the nomination of former Cherokee Attorney General Sara Hill for a federal judgeship.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the Oklahoma Highway Patrol abandoning decades of precedent and ticketing drivers with tribal tags who live outside the nation's boundaries and the State Supreme Court temporarily suspending three measures related to abortion in Oklahoma.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses Gov. Kevin Stitt's plan to have sports betting in the State of Oklahoma and Stitt's former Secretary of Education, who says she left after concerns over financial issues with the Department of Education.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discuss Gov. Kevin Stitt and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott traveling to Israel, State Superintendent Ryan Walters' endorsement of former President Trump and the resignation of a State Department of Education employee getting the attention of a legislative leader.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics panel discusses Attorney General Gentner Drummond suing the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board over a Catholic charter school, Gov. Stitt's replacements for the State Board of Education and an investigation of the Oklahoma's partnership with conservative media nonprofit PragerU.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss the chairman of the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board refusing to sign a contract to create a Catholic charter school, an announcement by State Superintendent Ryan Walters that he has paid $7.5M in signing bonuses to teachers and another resignation from the State Board of Education.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics' panel discusses a federal judge refusing to stop a law banning gender-affirming care for minors, the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approving a contract for a Catholic charter school, and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics' panel discuss the short special session called by Gov. Kevin Stitt to cut taxes, State Superintendent Ryan Walters' education budget that cuts $47 million from schools, and more.
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KOSU, StateImpact Oklahoma and Focus: Black Oklahoma won 25 awards from the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, Professional Chapter for stories that aired during 2021.