Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 • A tiny bit warmer. Upper 30s. Sunny. ☀️

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Winter storm resources:
Closings: OKC | Tulsa | Texoma
Road conditions: ODOT | ArcGIS
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ACOG: Central Oklahoma snow routes
OKC airport: flyokc.com
Tulsa airport: flytulsa.com
Train schedule: Heartland Flyer
Oklahoma City Free Press: City of OKC services updates
Tulsa Flyer: Tulsa offices, services closed

By Hannah France, KGOU
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Community members who spoke at the meeting asked the city council to do everything in their power to prevent an ICE facility from opening in Southwest OKC.

A letter sent to the City from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security outlined the agency’s plans to purchase a warehouse on 2800 South Council Road for use as a “processing facility.”

Ward 2 Councilman James Cooper said he is opposed to the facility. He read a sworn affidavit from a witness to the killing of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by ICE agents over the weekend and referred to his constituents in the Asian District.

“We are hard workers, we are compassionate, we believe in public safety. ICE’s presence in our city does not make our neighborhoods, communities, or our people any safer,” Cooper said.

Rev. Lori Walke, a minister at Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, spoke to the council.

“I repeat the call for you to draft and share a legal briefing with the public that outlines all legal pathways to disrupt the detention and processing center or others like it from being built here,” Walke said.

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Send me your winter storm and winter fun pics from the weekend. I’d love to include them in the Oklahoma Memo this week.

Today’s photo is from Ronnie Chandler in Muskogee, with his dog Loki.

“He loves the snow,” Ronnie says.

We might just make this ‘View from your phone’ segment a regular thing, showing the sights and natural beauty of Oklahoma. My email is always open: [email protected].

By Phillip Jackson, Tulsa Flyer
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Brian Ingram thinks of himself as a typical family man. He lives with his wife, Chandra, and his son in the home they built from scratch. 

“We have chickens right now, and we are looking to get some goats,” he said. “We built this house and we finished it around 2001. This is where I plan on dying.”

The Ingram family lives outside Sand Springs city limits in Osage County, not far from a proposed 827-acre hyperscale data center called Project Spring. The developer, White Rose Partners, says Google is the likely end user.

The City of Sand Springs annexed county land for the proposed facility last June — but Ingram’s family and their neighbors did not find out until November. The project has since caused a fury among the city’s nearly 20,000 residents for a long list of reasons, ranging from land usage to the fear of increased utility rates. 

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A hand-curated list of the best journalism from across the state:

• Stitt orders changes to social services programs, to make them 'trampolines, not hammocks' (Tulsa World)*

• Trump Admin. seeking access to detailed voter data, here’s details on OK’s response (KFOR)

• Downtown traffic prep announced for the Lawton police chief’s funeral today (The Lawton Constitution)

• Federal funding law includes money for Oklahoma weather, climate institutions (KGOU)

• Oklahoma legislative priorities for K-12: literacy, teacher retention. Higher ed: international students (KGOU)

• Oklahoma Gov. Stitt wants to create state website promoting school choice (The Oklahoman)*

• ‘The risk is moving too slow’: How Oklahoma’s government wants AI to reshape the state’s economy (The Frontier)

• Workshops set to help Oklahomans who want to be witnesses, allies for immigrants (The Oklahoman)*

• OKC multi-purpose stadium: What a preliminary report reveals (News 9)

• Two drivers arrested on murder complaints after woman being pulled on sled dies in OKC (KOCO)

• Bryan County EMS mourns loss of paramedic (KXII)

• As Tulsa thaws, water main breaks are surging. Local businesses are feeling the impact. (The Oklahoma Eagle)

• Tulsa pastor Michael Todd takes ‘Relationship Goals’ from the pages to the screen (The Oklahoma Eagle)

• Oklahoma Historical Society recognizes Henryetta church as historic site (KSWO)

• Clendon Thomas, former OU star and National Football Hall of Fame inductee, dies at 90 (KOCO)

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