In The News 04.02.2025

Here are the headlines shared on Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Oklahoma Gov. Stitt wants to close the Department of Forestry? (Read) / KFOR

In The News

Here are the headlines shared on Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• Gov. Stitt wants to get rid of forestry department after deadly fires (KFOR)

• TPS cancels partnership with Reading Partners Tulsa (KOTV)

• Trump administration freezes federal family planning money in Oklahoma, provides dollars to OSDH (KGOU)

• Senate rebukes Trump's tariffs on Canada (KGOU)

• ‘Unprecedented’ cuts to Midwest weather balloon launches could make it harder to forecast storms (KOSU)

• Tornado hits Owasso Wednesday morning (KWGS)

• Tulsa’s surveillance gamble (The Frontier)

• Justice Department surges FBI support for tribal cases in Oklahoma (Journal Record)

• Ryan Walters at the nexus of Oklahoma lawsuits over transparency, religious freedom (Oklahoma Voice)

• Cuts to Medicaid funding will send ‘tidal wave’ through Oklahoma's health care system (Oklahoma Voice / Commentary)

• Free Speech in Crisis - How an Archaic State Law is Landing Oklahomans in Jail for Libel (Oklahoma Watch)

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