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By The Power Of LOFT: An Interview With Sen. Julia Kirt

Posted February 15, 2021 • 00:56:03

OKC Sen. Julia Kirt joins us for this week’s Observercast 2.6: By The Power Of Loft to discuss the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency’s blistering...

Observercast 2.5: Playing Where We Can Win

Posted February 8, 2021 • 01:05:05

As a buckle on the evangelical Bible Belt, Oklahoma has a long and dispiriting history of anti-LGBTQ policymaking, intolerance and vigilantism. It’s...

Observercast 2.4: All Spectacle And No Substance

Posted February 1, 2021 • 01:08:20

State lawmakers kicked off their 2021 session Monday with less than the usual pomp and circumstance – an acknowledgement of the reality that Oklahoma...

Observercast 2.3: A Living Wage For Oklahoma

Posted January 25, 2021 • 00:59:02

Frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009, the minimum wage is more accurately described as a starvation wage. Once the purview of teenage and part-time workers,...

Observercast Episode 2.2: The First Right Afforded To The People

Posted January 18, 2021 • 01:08:28

Oklahoma’s Founding Fathers clearly were wary of too much power in too few hands. One of the first planks they nailed into the state Constitution...