Emma Murphy of Oklahoma Voice
Oklahoma Voice reporterEmma covers the statehouse for Oklahoma Voice. She is a graduate of University of Missouri - Columbia and covered Missouri's legislature for three years at the Columbia Missourian.
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More Oklahomans have been getting vaccinated against measles since cases started to be reported in Oklahoma and neighboring states.
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Differing ideas of how to create residential setbacks for wind turbines have advanced through the Oklahoma House and Senate, but the chambers have yet to find a compromise on bill language.
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A lawmaker from Oklahoma City had his last day in the House Monday after being elected Oklahoma County commissioner.
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Legislation legalizing sports betting, which gives tribal governments the exclusive right to operate it, has made its way through the House despite the governor’s opposition.
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Tracy Poole, of Tulsa, will replace Regent Trudy Milner if approved by the state senate.
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The Oklahoma Ethics Commission will pursue an ethics complaint against state Superintendent Ryan Walters in district court and plans to settle other complaints outside the courtroom, the agency’s director said Thursday.
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House lawmakers on Thursday approved a measure along partisan lines that would create a new felony for being in the country illegally, despite critics calling it “un-American” and saying it would create unnecessary fear.
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Lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a bill that would create the first residential setbacks for wind turbines amid growing calls for additional regulation on Oklahoma’s renewable energy industry.
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The 91-0 vote moves the state one step closer to settling a 2023 lawsuit that alleged the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services violated the rights of mostly indigent defendants who had been declared incompetent to stand trial by failing to provide timely court-ordered competency restoration treatment.
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A push to deport undocumented immigrants serving time in Oklahoma prisons doesn’t mean that they won’t be required to serve out their sentences or will escape justice.