Corey Jones
Tulsa World
The state s relocation of the Public Health Lab from Oklahoma City to sharing a refurbished building in Stillwater with a newly created Oklahoma Pandemic Center hit another bump with the resignation of the project s director only four months in.
An association that supports local and state public health labs wrote Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state officials in October to express significant concerns and warn that moving the lab so quickly into an interim facility not designed for the purpose will be very challenging and costly.
The dominant concern, according to the letter, is to assure employee and community safety, as well as the lab s integrity.
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Invisible Man: A Hard Look at Mayor Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson’s escape from poverty reads like a fairy tale. But his story took a turn when he became mayor. Why has he disappeared from so many of his old friends lives?
By Peter Simek
Published in
D Magazine
May
2021
Photo Illustration by Natalie Goff, Photography by Bret Redman, and Courtesy
It was more than four hours into the June 5, 2020, special meeting of the Dallas City Council called to discuss the George Floyd demonstrations, and Mayor Eric Johnson had no more patience for bullshit. Johnson had sat quietly listening to one resident after another lecture him about Dallas’ endemic racism and struggles with over-policing. When it was finally his turn to speak, he wanted answers about what had happened on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge the previous Sunday. Dallas police officers had fired so-called nonlethal rounds of ammunition and tear gas canisters at a peaceful crowd that included many children. Who was ultimate
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