Oklahoma News Report

Cindy Shell

Featured in Top Stories

And finally, a story of grace. In 2007, Edmond native Cindy Shell found her mother's body less than two hours after she had been murdered. As news media organizations followed the story, what emerged was a tale of forgiveness that transcended the horror of a mother's brutal death.

Related Topics: Biography & Profiles

Originally broadcast on February 10, 2012

Oklahoma News Report

ONR Extra Legislative Forum

Featured in ONR Extras

Tax cuts, budgets, job creation and reforming the criminal justice system are some of the top priorities for lawmakers and the governor as the legislative session begins. The yearly associated press legislative forum brings the governor and legislative leaders before reporters for a preview of the next four months. Here are the highlights from this year’s forum in this ONR Extra.

Related Topics: Business & Economy, Government, Politics

Originally broadcast on February 3, 2012

Oklahoma Forum

Legislative Leadership

The Big Topic is the 2012 legislative session and our guests are legislative leaders: Rep. Kris Steele, Speaker of the House Rep. Scott Inman, House Democratic Leader Sen. Clark Jolley, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Sean Burrage, Senate Democratic Leader

Originally broadcast on February 19, 2012

2012 State of the State

Governor Mary Fallin

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin delivers her State of the State address to a joint session of the Oklahoma Legislature.

Originally broadcast on February 6, 2012

Oklahoma News Report

December 9th, 2011

State income tax rate are set to go down again, despite another year of expected budget shortfalls. American Airlines declares bankruptcy. What will American’s move mean for its Oklahoma suppliers? Few animals are as destructive as feral hogs. As they rapidly multiply, farmers are paying the price. Police move to evict "occupy movement" protesters from public parks while organizers take their battle to the courtroom. Food banks across the state report increasing need as the holidays approach. All that and more, on ONR.

Originally broadcast on December 9, 2011

On the Record

Bill Moyers On the Record

Born in Hugo, Bill Moyers spent his first three years in Oklahoma and maintained close ties to the state even after his family moved south of the Red River to Marshall, Texas. With degrees in journalism and divinity, the ordained Baptist minister served as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, Press Secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, and publisher of Newsday before beginning his broadcast career in 1971. Now, 40 years and more than 30 Emmy Awards later, Moyers returns to Oklahoma to talk about the media and the journalism profession in a one-on-one interview with Dick Pryor. During his broadcast journalism career Moyers has served as chief correspondent for CBS Reports and senior news analyst for CBS News; host of Bill Moyers Journal and Now with Bill Moyers; and host of acclaimed programs including The Power of Myth, A World of Ideas, Healing and the Mind, and Amazing Grace. Bill Moyers On the Record is the latest in a series of award-winning OETA original productions featuring interviews with influential American journalists.

Originally broadcast on January 5, 2012

Oklahoma News Report

Going Green Holiday Recycling

Featured in Going Green

The holidays are over and the clean up has begun. For years that meant mountains of trash heading for incinerators and landfills across the state. But this year big efforts are underway to ensure less holiday waste is burned or buried. Especially the toxic trash that results from chucking out old electronics.

Related Topics: Holidays, Environment

Originally broadcast on January 6, 2012

Gallery 1205

Full Episode

Sense of Self
Do you know your culture? That is the question sparked by the new Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma. 20 years in the making, this sprawling monument to a people celebrates the culture of the Chickasaw Nation. From a distant past that began in the Mississippi region of the United States where the Chickasaws lived more than one thousand years ago to relocation to Indian Territory by an American Government that wanted their home land to today, a time of Renaissance that finds the tribe investing in a future that remembers and honors the past. The Chickasaw Cultural Center tells a story of perseverance and of a people who, despite great odds, always manage to maintain a “Sense of Self”. Join Gallery as we explore the importance of culture with the vibrant Chickasaw Nation.

March to the Stadium
With a drum line downbeat thousands rise to their feet, cheering for the great marching bands of Oklahoma’s top universities as they take the football fields in Stillwater and in Norman, their mission, to build excitement, honor traditions and sometimes, to actually make an impact on the outcome of football games. In Oklahoma, when you’re talking football, you’re talking big money for the schools and the state. Gallery goes behind the scenes with The Cowboy Marching Band at Oklahoma State University and The Pride of Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma to talk to students, alumni and the band directors about what leads up to The March to the Stadium.

Originally broadcast on January 12, 2012

Oklahoma News Report

Greening Homes (3:35)

Featured in Preserving History

When it comes to sustainability, historic preservation programs are the original proponents of living green. Oklahoma City’s Historic Preservation Commission has now decided to expand upon the green efforts to make the most of what has already been done.

Related Topics: Community, United States, Government, Environment

Originally broadcast on October 28, 2011

Oklahoma News Report

Income Tax (4:38)

Featured in It's Your Government

A legislative task force is looking for a way to eliminate the state income tax. Because the income tax is the largest source of state revenue, lawmakers are faced with replacing $1.8 billion with money from another source. And that could have a big impact on cities and towns across the state.

Related Topics: Business & Economy, Government

Originally broadcast on October 28, 2011