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This month, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals unveiled a southeast Oklahoma City billboard that welcomes travelers to Oklahoma, “home of meathead Gov. Kevin.
Bigstock Some of Oklahomas biggest critics of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, are asking the president not to cut off Oklahomas own government supported insurance program.
The program is called Insure Oklahoma, and some state Republican officials particularly Gov. Mary Fallin have embraced it in the past few years and pushed the Obama administration to keep it alive, wrote Chris Casteel of
The Oklahoman. The program is now threatened by the Affordable Care Act, the health care law created by a Democratic president and Democratic Congress. And if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Acts system of tax subsidies this month, about 8,000 Oklahomans who had coverage through Insure Oklahoma but were forced into the federal program could be hurt.
Not so fast, Mr. Inhofe.
Oklahomas U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and environmental activists see the world in different ways, and they also took very different findings from a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on health risks associated with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
So FactCheck.org got to the bottom of the matter by actually reading and analyzing the EPAs study into the potential impact oil and gas fracking could have on drinking water resources.
Inhofe said the EPA report confirms that the practice is safe. However, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is sure the same report proves contamination.
One Kay County town kicked up centennial festivities a notch with its celebration of, as Oklahoman state correspondent Jim Etter reported recently, one of the most unusual events during Oklahoma s centennial : the horse liniment that made Newkirk famous.
Held Sept. 8 this year, the annual Charlie Adams Day in the small community near Bartlesville is named for Charles Francis Adams, a Kansan who set foot in the area then Oklahoma Territory in 1889, Etter reported. Adams claim to fame there? Creating a medicinal rub for his horses suffering from harness sores.
Adams patented the elixir as Good Luck and later saddled his best racing horse with the name. The appellation apparently held true according to the Oke, the horse won more than $13,000 by 1949.