Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law intending to reduce Oklahoma’s growing maternal death rate.
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The University of Oklahoma is making more big changes to programs in response to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s executive order prohibiting state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — this time axing a decades-old women’s leadership program.
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