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A bill that would provide the most significant expansion of school-choice opportunity in Oklahoma history has won approval from a Senate committee and will next go before the entire Oklahoma Senate.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The full Senate approved Senate Bill 1139 Monday to find alternate ways to compensate Oklahoma teachers. Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, said the ongoing teacher shortage is evidence that additional reforms must be made to keep professionals in the classroom.

Reforms to Oklahoma’s open-transfer law were touted as a way to help families escape geographically assigned public schools that are not working for their children.

Following are results from the Canadian County Junior Livestock Show: BARROWS Berkshire Kyla Bonds, Mustang FFA, 1st; Presley Stilley, Calumet FFA, 1st; Mason Shout, Piedmont 4-H, Breed Champion; Carson Cooper, Calumet FFA, 2nd; Clayton Cannon, El Reno FFA, Reserve Breed Champion; Jace...

MUNICIPAL COURT Fredrick Lewis Brown, El Reno, failure to yield right of way, $195. Rebecca Ruth Harris, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295. Dona Littlehawk, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295. Angilena M. Ford, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295.

The Reno Cinema 8 Theatre will reopen for business on Friday, March 11. The theatre closed March 20, 2020, as the COVID pandemic forced businesses not considered vital to shutter.

Yukon city leaders are mulling a proposal to expand mass transit to this rapidly growing part of the Oklahoma City metro. The Regional Transportation Authority of Central Oklahoma (RTA) is seeking input from the city of Yukon on its public transit program. Transit modes are:

Teacher union employees could no longer exploit an alleged loophole in state law that allows them to accrue increased state retirement benefits even when they are actually working for a labor union and not a public school, under legislation that has received committee approval.

Jack Hornberger shows his Grand Champion Crossbreed Steer at last week’s Canadian County Junior Livestock Show.

Congressman Tom Cole has introduced the “Prohibition on Imports of Russian Oil Act,” which would immediately cease all imports of Russian oil and other petroleum products to the U.S. Cole is a member of the House Energy Action Team and believes suspending oil imports from Russia is a key sanction...