The passage of a pay raise and funding package Monday night, by members of the state House, is raising questions about the future of a citizen-led effort to give teachers a pay raise by increasing the state's gross production tax (GPT) on oil and natural gas. 

In the heat of an Oklahoma summer water is king. And fears over a lack of it aren't far behind. Those same concerns are at the heart of the controversy over Oklahoma's state question 777 named Right to Farm.

When the ground shakes here, it no longer catches people by surprise. But the fact that it shook twice overnight seemed to add an exclamation point to the release, just a few hours earlier, of the USGS's new hazard map -- the first to include the risk from induced seismicity, and the first to officially lift Oklahoma into the same overall risk category as California and Alaska.