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After a week of speculation, Republican state leaders announced Thursday afternoon a high-level agreement on an $8.3 billion budget.
Gov. Kevin Stitt said the plan goes back to goals he laid out in February during his state of the state address. No. 1 was to make Oklahoma a top-10 place for business, No. 2 was to deliver Oklahomans more for their money and No. 3 was always to invest in our fellow Oklahomans, and I believe this budget has accomplished all three of those items, Stitt said.
Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat said the plan for fiscal year 2022 looks a lot different than the one for FY21 announced last May during a socially distanced news conference and with more than $1 billion in cuts.
Oldest Tulsa Massacre Survivor Turns 107 as Fight Against the City Continues
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Tulsa World, Viola Fletcher, who turned 107, is believed to be the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma.
According to Justice For Greenwood, “the match to the fuel of racial resentment that was lit on the morning of May 31, 1921,” when a White mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa.
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NowThis presented a tribute video to Fletcher where personal messages from the likes of actors Danny Glover and Piper Perabo and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker were shared.
“For you showing strength, letting the world know of truths that tried to be buried today we celebrate your love and your light,” Booker said in the video. “You are touching generations not yet born.”