Stimulus payments can be intercepted to pay past due child support

OKLAHOMA CITY - Up to 130,000 Oklahomans in arrears on child support payments may not receive the new stimulus checks being issued under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

Corporation Commission debates closing wells

OKLAHOMA CITY – The price that Oklahoma energy producers are receiving for crude oil “probably doesn’t even pay the electric bill,” Tulsa attorney and oilman Lee Levinson told the Oklahoma Corporation Commission late last week.

State Medicaid expansion vote set

OKLAHOMA CITY – An expansion of Medicaid services to more low-income Oklahomans will be submitted to voters statewide on June 30. Gov. Kevin Stitt, an avowed opponent of SQ 802, issued a proclamation last Friday to place the measure on the statewide primary election ballot.

Stitt: Reopening plan in the works, but he won’t move too soon

OKLAHOMA CITY – Gov. Kevin Stitt said Wednesday he is working on a plan to reopen the state’s economy as the threat from the coronavirus fades – but he’s not there yet.

Checking temperatures before assignment

Recent graduates from Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sill lined up in 6-foot increments last week and were screened for flu-like symptoms before they were loaded up and transported to their first unit assignment.

The Bottom Line: Life must go on

Life must go on. America and the great state of Oklahoma must get back to work. As the essential/non-essential debate waged on, Main Street was ordered shuttered while big box stores and Wall Street marched forward. In some respects, the greatest qualities of main street were forgotten.

Many Oklahomans targeting May 1 as COVID-19 V-day

Some experts are predicting as many as 20 states are ready to make the first day of May their Coronavirus V-Day (Victory Day) – the day they can ease restrictions that have resulted in the nation’s economy being shocked to a standstill by the pandemic that has left thousands dead all across the...