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Rainfall Aiding Containment of 2 Largest Oklahoma Wildfires
Rainfall is aiding firefighters' efforts to contain two major wildfires in Oklahoma that have charred 550 square miles. Forestry officials reported progress Saturday on the two largest wildfires burning in western Oklahoma as weather forecasts estimated up to 1 inch of rain could fall in the area. Officials said the Rhea Fire in Dewey County was nearly 30 percent contained Saturday. The blaze has charred about 452 square miles. The 34 Complex fire in Woodward County is nearly 70 percent...
Why Textbooks Are a Symbol of Teacher Frustration
One of the most iconic images of the teacher walkout and the cuts to education funding that drove the movement was of tattered, duct-taped, antiquated textbooks. There was the viral image of an Ada girl holding a class reader that apparently was once assigned to country music star Blake Shelton, now 41. And the photo of a crumbling history book from Owasso in which George W. Bush is the current president (the district later said that particular book wasn’t in use). These images grabbed...
Long Hours, Low Pay Push Some Democratic Campaign Workers To Unionize
Many political campaign workers spend long hours at low pay, living off of pizza and coffee, all in the hope of seeing their candidate win. Now, labor organizers are setting their sights on bringing those workers into the labor movement at a time when the percentage of U.S. workers who belong to a union is falling steadily. The newly formed Campaign Workers Guild claims to have helped organize at least a dozen Democratic campaigns and one political consulting firm. "It's been far too long...
On the Next ATJ: Jazz for Earth Day!
Join us for the next All This Jazz, starting at 9pm on Saturday the 21st, right here on KWGS / Public Radio Tulsa. On this Earth Day Weekend, our program’s third-hour theme -- running from 11pm till midnight -- will be Earth Jazz . Thus we'll hear Sun Ra doing "Planet Earth," Randy Weston (shown here) playing "Earth Birth," and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones running through their "Earthling Parade," to name just a few. And elsewhere in our show, we'll dig the music of Blossom Dearie, Chucho...
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StateImpact Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Officials Endorse Nitrogen Executions As ‘Humane,’ But Some Medical Experts Aren’t Sure
- Senate Follows House, Expands Stand Your Ground To Places of Worship
- Doctors Question Push For More Independent Nurses As Lawmakers Consider How to Fill Health Gaps
- AG Sued For More Records After Releasing Suppressed Audit That Found Evidence of Conspiracy At Tar Creek
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