Thursday's top stories:
• Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum is proposing a new public safety district, which would levy a property tax for dedicated funding for the city's police and fire departments.
• Bynum says there are no current plans to reimplement COVID-19 restrictions such as mask mandates.
• COVID cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in Oklahoma, which continues to have one of the worst vaccination rates in the country.
