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✅ Early voting continues today ahead of the June 16 primary (Oklahoma Voice)
👉 And here’s a primary election guide from KOCO.
📺 Watch the Republican gubernatorial debate from Thursday night (News 9)
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We received 77 votes on the Thursday poll, “Should city leaders be legally allowed to enter into NDAs without a vote of their governing body?”
• 7 said YES
• 70 said NO
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Luther residents challenge data center development as opposition grows across Oklahoma
Anti-data center signs lay against a building near the Luther Town Hall, where community members gathered to protest ahead of a local Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday night.
By Sabrina Thaler, KOSU
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Two years ago, Joshua Milleson and his wife bought a plot of land in Luther, a rural town of roughly 1,500 people. Milleson, who works at the Devon Energy Center in downtown Oklahoma City, was excited to carve out an “oasis” about thirty miles away from city life, he said.
Just weeks shy of breaking ground on his house, Milleson’s excitement for the future became “utter devastation” on Friday evening, he said. He and his wife learned an energy company had proposed developing a data center on the property directly east of their home.
Milleson was among dozens of outraged residents who convened in Luther for the town’s Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday night, where the trustees were slated to discuss the proposal for the development of data center. The board was also scheduled to vote on an ordinance to create a specialized rezoning process for data centers and another ordinance that would have placed a moratorium on rezoning for data centers.
Luther will join several Oklahoma towns that have weighed proposals for data centers, large facilities that centralize computing infrastructure. Across the country, data centers — particularly those used to power artificial intelligence — have drawn intense criticism from local communities and activists for the demand they place on local resources and water supplies.
Just before the meeting in Luther was scheduled to begin, the town postponed it to June 17. Luther’s town manager cited capacity limitations in their town hall, KFOR reported.
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🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: Luther Superintendent Will Not Make Auditorium Available for Controversial Town Board Meetings about a Data Center (The Luther Register)
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The Oklahoma Rundown 📰
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Here’s what’s happening in Oklahoma today:
• With assist from Trump administration, GRDA sticks with coal power (Oklahoma Watch)
• Payne County group seeks grand jury investigation into former district attorney (News 9)
• Stranger pays off Owasso veteran's GoFundMe, vows to pay property taxes for life (2 News Oklahoma)
• Oklahomans cast their ballots Thursday as early voting begins (Oklahoma Voice)
• Democrats running for governor of Oklahoma hope education frustration, tribal relations can turn tide (NonDoc)
• After 15 months in lieutenant governor race, Byrd explains treasurer switch (Gaylord News)
• Who is running for Tulsa City Council in 2026? Get a look at the 20 candidates. (Tulsa Flyer)
• Report finds Tulsa is closing the gap on several key disparities. But many remain. (The Oklahoma Eagle)
• Tulsa transit authority votes to sell downtown bus station, citing homelessness as factor (Tulsa World)*
• Woman dies in Atoka house fire, Bible found untouched in ruins (KXII)
• Granny’s Kitchen CEO left fixing ex-franchise owner’s mistakes while more allegations emerge (KFOR)
• Six horses rescued in Oklahoma after drug bust involving cocaine (KOCO)
• Native American Boarding School Oral History Project wraps up in Tulsa, welcomes more participants (KOSU)
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