Paul Monies of Oklahoma Watch

Oklahoma’s superagency that handles information technology, budgeting, employee management and state office buildings has little budget transparency of its own and needs to do a better job of responding to agencies it provides services, a legislative oversight report concluded.

About 270,000 low-income Oklahomans are expected to lose their SoonerCare coverage after the federal government ended a pandemic program that stopped states from dropping people from Medicaid during a public health emergency.

As children return to school, Oklahoma now has the highest rate of exemptions from immunizations for kindergartners in the region, according to state and federal data.

Trustees of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System voted 9-1 to take a financial exemption from a new state banking law that forbids pension systems from doing business with banks perceived to be hostile to oil and gas companies.

Millions in broadband funding could be further delayed after some companies and board members raised concerns about duplicating efforts in areas of Oklahoma already served by internet service providers.

Oklahoma’s new law targeting banks who boycott the energy industry is causing uncertainty for counties and cities that aren’t sure if the Oklahoma Energy Discrimination Elimination Act applies to their pension systems, bond sales or bank loans.

The Legislative Office of Financial Transparency presented its draft findings on the Commissioners of the Land Office, whose investments help Oklahoma education. The report recommended the sale of real estate holdings to prioritize higher returns from securities investments.

A decades-long quirk in map making and state boundaries is inching toward a solution after Oklahoma's Red River Boundary Commission met for the first time in years.

Oklahoma voters will decide on March 7 if they want to expand the state’s medical marijuana market to adult recreational users 21 and older.