Matt Trotter
News DirectorMatt Trotter joined KWGS as a reporter in 2013. Before coming to Public Radio Tulsa, he was the investigative producer at KJRH. His freelance work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and on MSNBC and CNN.
He has a master's degree from Arizona State University, where he spent a semester on the first reporting staff of Cronkite News Service's Washington, D.C., bureau. As a grad student, he won awards for multimedia journalism and in-depth TV reporting.
Matt is from Southern California, so he's slowly following Route 66 across the United States. He would have made it Chicago by now, but he's not a fan of long drives.
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Union Public Schools will continue requiring students, staff and visitors to wear masks until at least January.
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While it’s not clear the court will overturn Roe v. Wade if it upholds Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, Oklahoma has laws in place to automatically outlaw the procedure if there is a reversal.
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Dr. Jill Biden will be joined by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, and they will talk about the importance of preserving native languages.
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Wednesday's top stories:First Lady Jill Biden will visit Oklahoma on Friday.Defense secretary says Guard who refuse vaccine can't train and won't get paid.The pardon and parole board denies clemency for a man set to die by the same method that concerned them two weeks earlier.
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A joint committee heard proposals to spend American Rescue Plan funds on expanding rural broadband access, increasing the number of health care workers in Oklahoma and ramping up workforce training.
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Nearly 40% of the state's cities with 50,000 or fewer residents have received the virus relief funding, up from 11% four weeks earlier.
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Tuesday's top stories:Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin denies Gov. Kevin Stitt's request to exempt Oklahoma National Guard members from a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.Tulsa County has allocated nearly $41 million of its first $63 million from the American Rescue Plan Act.
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The county received its first tranche of $63 million from the coronavirus relief package in May.
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Bob Stoops led the Sooners to their last national championship in 2000 and resigned in 2017 after 18 seasons with the team. He agreed to be interim coach after Lincoln Riley announced he was going to the University of Southern California.
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The dictionary will be a full-fledged digital resource where learners can hear Cherokee in everyday use, an opportunity that can be hard to come by as the number of first-language speakers dwindles.