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SPP believes they have “sufficient” generation to meet demand this week. Their most current generation mix update reflects a very diverse portfolio of what is supplying our energy—wind and coal the top 2. Natural gas a not-so-distant third.

SPP, Oklahoma’s power grid operator, says they might set a new all-time winter peak demand record this week. A winter storm will settle over Oklahoma starting early tomorrow morning, with frigid temps through Friday AM.
Statement from SPP⬇️

Gotcha. Sorry to randomly appear weeks later, hah. I was just going through tomorrow’s committee meetings and it caught my eye!

FYI- looks like state legislature is trying to change the rules for this. Sorry for the crude pic. HB 1732 is in a house committee tomorrow:

We love a good snow slow-mo. Or is it, “snow-mo”? #okwx

New Bojangles set to open in Oklahoma City by late 2025 A new Bojangles location is coming to Oklahoma City.The brand-new restaurant will be located at13135 N. Pennsylvania Avenue.Bojangles, the southern-style fas

The biggest breaking news in Oklahoma City today: Bojangles is coming. Bring on the Bo-Berry biscuits!

Gray basketball courts need to be banned. They look awful on television.

That’s really frustrating. Has anyone tried to get with OSSAA before they draft their rules for the year to get them to change this?

Oh wow, interesting! Is that for all rounds of the playoffs or just for the later rounds?

What’s the rule? Do they have a lottery for who streams certain playoff games?

Early Christmas present: Buc-ee's Amarillo opening Dec. 16 Fans of Buc-ee's could be getting an early Christmas present, especially those in the Texas panhandle.ABC 7 News confirmed Buc-ee's is pushing up the opening of

The closest Buc-ee’s to OKC: Denton. After that, it’s other DFW-area stores.
Soon, Okies will be able to drive 4 hours to Amarillo to get their Buc-Ed’s fix:

Community leaders and family of the original owners of the historically black-owned Jewel Theatre in OKC gathered to celebrate the start of its restoration. | Zoe Elrod was there and reports: https://freepressokc.com/the-jewel-theater-restoration-of-a-deep-deuce-icon-begins/

🧵🧵 While everyone was understandably focused on national politics, something happened in Texas this week that has received far less attention than it deserves, given its potential consequences. And I'd guess even very plugged-in folks dont realize the full scope.

Let me explain (at length):

YouTube video by KOKH - FOX 25 Big Story Breakdown: Bullying in Oklahoma

Watch our extensive coverage on this topic here:

Denney’s solution: limiting phone use in schools. Bills have been proposed on this topic, but haven’t passed. Some lawmakers are on board, but the Governor doesn’t think it should be a law—instead, he urges districts to just adopt policies against phone use in classrooms.

Some districts have rather vague policies. Others, like Edmond and Yukon public schools, have very detailed procedures for bullying investigations.

Denney’s Oklahoma School Safety and Bullying Prevention Act (2013) required school district to adopt policies for investigating and reporting bullying. That’s lead to a patchwork quilt of district policies on the topic.

'Bullying has gotten out of hand': Former lawmaker says her bill isn't working in schools A former Oklahoma lawmaker who helped write the state's anti-bullying in schools law says she doesn't think it's working.

Former Rep. Lee Denney (R-Cushing), who wrote the state’s first anti-bullying law, admits it’s not working. “I don’t think it’s making much of a difference.”

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

102 acres for $27 mil!

"Oklahoma just doesn't care."
A new homeless encampment on Reno and Meridian is causing controversy between unsheltered people and nearby businesses.

YouTube video by KOKH - FOX 25 Big Story Breakdown: STEM in Oklahoma

Full STEM breakdown ICYMI! youtu.be/DRHmVkRqtxA?...

Oklahoma Supreme Court justice recuses herself from Bible mandate case An Oklahoma Supreme Court justice has recused herself from a case against Ryan Walters bible mandate.Dana Kuehn recused herself on Friday citing Oklahoma Code o

Justice Kuehn recused herself from the case due to the “appearance of impropriety.”

Rep. Mark McBride, frequent critic of Ryan Walters, bids farewell to legislature After serving 12 years in the state legislature, Rep. Mark McBride (R-Moore) bid farewell to the State Capitol on Tuesday.McBride, a frequent critic of fellow R

Here’s Rep. Mark McBride’s farewell letter to his district & fellow lawmakers. What does he have planned next? He says he wants to stay involved in education for the state.

Then, they’ll get effective treatment and stabilize, leading to a mental health facility releasing them. These facilities cannot keep healthy patients inside with so few beds for those who are suffering.

Jails aren’t equipped to handle complex mental health patients, but when mental health facilities release these patients with a criminal history, that’s where they end up. Their treatment either stops or is less efficient leading them right back to the mental health facility they were released from.

Re-arrested, re-charged, and spent six months in the Ok Co Jail waiting for a spot to open in Vinita. He never regained competency and went right back into a mental health facility.

Cooper was accused of stomping his roommates head until he died. Cooper was arrested, deemed incompetent, went to Vinita for competency restoration, which failed, then was committed around 2008/2009. In 2022 he was released from the facility…

Be deemed incompetent, likely go to Vinita for competency restoration (which can take up to 2 years), then be committed to a mental health facility again. This same thing happened to Jerome Rondell Cooper…

That is, until his facility released him from their care last week. He’s been re-arrested and re-charged with the 4 murder counts. He, along with Washington and Hardeman, will do the exact same thing they did when they were arrested for their crimes so many years ago…