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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All adults who are six months past their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines can now get a third shot to boost immunity.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services visited the lab for several days in late September as part of the inquiry. The health department has issued a statement but declined to provide the federal agency's report.
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A complaint triggered a federal investigation of the state public health lab, Lincoln Riley suddenly leaves OU and part of Peoria Avenue is closing for several months.
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Canoo is bringing new facilities to Oklahoma, including R&D and software development hubs in Tulsa. The company is also moving its headquarters to Bentonville, Arkansas.
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The maps will be in effect for the next 10 years, and the new congressional district boundaries sailed through the Republican-controlled legislature without a single Democrat's support.
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Restore Hope, the nonprofit administering the city and county’s assistance programs, has distributed more than $750,000 to other organizations to help reach more people eligible for the funds.
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Fresh off calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a mass murderer and Kyle Rittenhouse an American hero, Oklahoma Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jackson Lahmeyer accepted the endorsement from Stone, who is a convicted felon.
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Engineers involved in the planning for the dam assured Tulsa city councilors they are developing an operations plan that will deals with fish being able to pass the dam during spawning seasons.
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The Sky Warden is a plane designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The aircraft are being produced in Tulsa and are a bid for a roughly $1 billion federal defense contract.
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The new map appears to give Republican candidates an advantage in Oklahoma's Fifth Congressional District. It did not get a single Democrat’s vote in the House or Senate.