
Neva Hill
Political commentatorFor more than two decades, Neva Hill has been a political commentator for KOSU.
Hill been professionally active in Oklahoma Republican politics and journalism for 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 the last four years.
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 now represents Oklahoma’s Fourth District in the United States Congress.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss a lawsuit filed by Labor Commissioner candidate Sean Roberts against State Rep. Carol Bush for slander, and several primary runoff elections.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a call from five Republican female lawmakers for Labor Commissioner candidate Sean Roberts to drop out of the race after accusations from his ex-wife of abuse and mistreatment and more.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses Oklahoma falling behind in online registration for new voters, Education Secretary Ryan Walters releasing funding to Tulsa Public Schools for early childhood education and federal auditors want Oklahoma to return COVID funding money they say was misspent by Gov. Kevin Stitt's administration.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a deal with Panasonic falling through after the electronics company picked Kansas to build a new manufacturing plant and what will now happen to the nearly $700M set aside to entice the business to come to Oklahoma.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a request by Gov. Kevin Stitt for an investigative audit of the Tulsa Public School District and an inquiry by the State Bureau of Investigation of the Commissioners of the Land Office.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying the state has the right to prosecute non-Native suspects who commit crimes on tribal lands against Native Americans and supporters of a ballot measure to put recreational marijuana on the ballot turn in 164,000 signatures to the Secretary of State.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the outlawing of abortion in Oklahoma after the U.S. Supreme Court decision and the results of this week's primary election.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a new poll showing a sizeable lead by Congressman Markwayne Mullin in the U.S. Senate race to fill Jim Inhofe's seat.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses Gov. Kevin Stitt pulling political ads featuring current Attorney General John O'Connor after ethical and legal questions from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and a federal judge ruling Oklahoma's three-drug execution protocol as constitutional.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses a special legislative session to determine how to spend $2 billion in COVID-19 relief funds, a nearly $10 billion budget proposal and a hearing on the Department of Tourism's deal with Swadley's Bar-B-Q.