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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The Oklahoma Department of Corrections on Friday drew raffle tickets from a fishbowl to determine which media outlets would be permitted access to witness the Aug. 25 execution of death row inmate James Coddington, the first of 25 men scheduled to be put to death over the next two years.
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A nonprofit that advocates for descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is advising people not to heed the city of Tulsa's call for them to submit samples of their DNA.
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A federal lawsuit filed Friday alleges Gov. Kevin Stitt violated both state statute and the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights in the process of firing and replacing two members of the Oklahoma Veterans Commission.
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Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum announced Monday his selection of former Tulsa City Councilor Blake Ewing to serve as his chief of staff.
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Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.
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