Chris Polansky
News Anchor & ReporterChris joined Public Radio Tulsa as a news anchor and reporter in April 2020. He’s a graduate of Hunter College and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, both at the City University of New York.
His most recent stint at an NPR member station was as a general assignment reporter at Utah Public Radio in Logan, Utah, in 2019. His stories have also appeared in/on Gothamist / WNYC, NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, and the Brooklyn Eagle.
Chris is a New Jersey native and perpetually disappointed Mets fan who spent just about ten years in New York City before coming to Tulsa. He likes hiking and camping with his dog, Trout Fishing in America. He’s also a proud alumnus of Bike & Build, an affordable housing nonprofit with which he’s bicycled coast-to-coast twice: from Portland, Maine, to Santa Barbara (2014), and from Nags Head, North Carolina, to San Diego (2016). Both trips crossed Oklahoma.
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While there have been hotter stretches in the past, Oklahoma — like the rest of the world — is experiencing more frequent, more intense, and longer-lasting extreme heat events as a result of human-caused climate change.
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An Oklahoma woman was arrested Tuesday for her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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It's been very hot in much of the U.S. One of the toastier areas of the state, hit 115 degrees in the town of Mangum. In Tulsa, high temperatures haven't dipped below 100 for over a week.
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Stressing the danger posed by the current heat wave, Tulsa officials on Wednesday advised residents to take caution and heed warnings as daily high temperatures were expected to remain above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for at least another week.
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The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by many conservatives.
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With temperatures expected to remain dangerously high in the coming days, emergency management officials are opening Tulsa's fourth cooling station Wednesday.