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Listen Frontier

Listen Frontier

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Listen Frontier is a podcast exploring the investigative journalism of The Frontier and featuring conversations with those on the frontlines of Oklahoma's most important stories. At The Frontier, our mission is to hold public officials accountable, give a voice to the powerless and tell the stories that others are afraid to tell, or that illuminate the lives of people in our community. We will shine a light on hypocrisy, fraud, abuse and wrongdoing at all levels in our community and state. We will delve into complex issues and explain them to our readers, arming them with the information they need to make change.Copyright 2026 The Frontier 政治・政府 政治学 経済学
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  • Jena Nelson on Trump, Stephanie Bice and her plan to win Oklahoma's 5th District

    Jena Nelson on Trump, Stephanie Bice and her plan to win Oklahoma's 5th District
    2026/10/08

    Frontier Executive Editor Dylan Goforth spoke with Jena Nelson, a Democrat running to unseat Republican Rep. Stephanie Bice in Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District. Nelson discussed her efforts to appeal to Republican voters, her concerns about federal healthcare cuts and rising costs, and why she believes listening to constituents rather than following national party politics could help her flip the Republican-held seat. She also criticized Bice's support for President Donald Trump's policies and outlined her priorities on education, immigration and affordability.

    Bice's campaign did not respond to requests to participate in an interview.
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    23 分
  • ‘David against an army of Goliaths’: The fight over a proposed Google data center near Sand Springs

    ‘David against an army of Goliaths’: The fight over a proposed Google data center near Sand Springs
    2026/09/24
    Dylan Goforth: Before anyone was talking about Google or a data center, what exactly did the family — and tell us a little bit about the family there who signed that conservation easement — but what did they agree to when they signed it with Land Legacy, and what did Land Legacy receive in return?Michael Patton: What Land Legacy does is conservation easements, and that puts restrictions on land forever and ever. And people can do it a variety of ways. They can donate them to us. They can sell them to us if we have a buyer for those. But it protects land forever. It's a green space that forever and ever Land Legacy will put those restrictions and fight them in court.So in 2013, the Ringel family decided on their family ranch they would put these restrictions, and it's a unique easement. And they put a circle around the entire property. All the stuff near the highway was the easement, plus a big spot in the middle. So 270 acres of their 835 acres were restricted, and they all signed an agreement. Everybody in the family signed it and notarized it that they would follow these restrictions.And the restrictions are fairly simple: no industrial park, no access, no roads, no buildings. We do that all the time. We have 18 of these in Osage County, Oklahoma alone, and we have 130 of these around the state, around 30,000 acres.A family would do this for the tax benefits. So, in 2013, the Ringel family made a non-cash donation to Land Legacy, $3.822 million, that they were able to use as a tax write-off, as a deduction off their income. So that was 13 years ago. Now suddenly they just feel they can break the rules.So without our knowledge, they went to the city of Sand Springs, got it annexed. I heard about it after, when they started to get rezoned, and it's restricted. So we have filed a lawsuit against the Ringel family, who have now sold those rights to Google. So now we've amended our lawsuit to also against two developers and the Google people.So we have restrictions on the land. We are going to win in court. Every lawyer tells me they can't do this project, and they just thought they would lie about it.Goforth: We're talking about a lot of land and a lot of development. What I was wondering, like you said, the easement protects roughly, I think you said 270 acres, is that right? But it doesn't prevent development elsewhere on the property.Patton: No, it does not.Goforth: So how do those things interact? You know what I mean? Is the development touching these 270 acres?Patton: Yes. In fact, the Ringel family has tried to change the easement boundaries to make the Google plant fit, but no, we have an entire circle around it. It's a ring around the property that you can't cross. No roads can cross that. So even if they could build something in the middle, they couldn't get to it because there's an easement prohibiting a road.And the main part of it is there's a big swath of it that's two beautiful Osage hills and a ravine between them that they plan to blow up and flatten to make the Google plant fit. So they took that part of the easement on their own and said, "Oh, we're just going to move this and put some other land way over here and give that to Land Legacy."So they don't have the right to change legal boundaries. You don't have the right to change your neighbor's fence on your own and file these things. So I think that will also be thrown out.So they've been telling people and telling Google, "Oh, we can fit it now because we changed the easement," and they can't unilaterally change the easement.And this will be dramatic changes to Osage County. They're going to have to flatten, dynamite these two hills, and fill the ravine. And this is the start of Turkey Creek. I just can't imagine the amount of environmental damage that's going to happen from this. There's much higher conservation value protecting those hills and that ravine than there is just some pastureland over on the side that they want to swap out.Goforth: Now I know that you appeared before the Sand Springs Planning Commission earlier this year, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you told them there that Land Legacy had rights involving this property. Can you tell us a little bit about that meeting and what you told the Planning Commission? Maybe what they said in return, and sort of where all that stands now.Patton: Yeah, I literally was not notified by state law. The annexation is still being fought by a separate group, but they have to annex.We are a property rights — this is not an anti-data center argument. It's a property rights issue, and property rights are part of the bundle of rights you have when you own property. You may own mineral rights or water rights, and development rights can be donated to a nonprofit.The mineral rights is owned by Osage County or Osage Tribe. They own all the mineral rights in the county, so it's a whole separate issue from us.But yeah, I literally did not know about this. They'd already annexed it. ...
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    19 分
  • ‘It’s time we do something big and bold’: Sen. Rosino pushes child welfare overhaul

    ‘It’s time we do something big and bold’: Sen. Rosino pushes child welfare overhaul
    2026/09/09

    The Oklahoma City Republican wants to move child welfare out of DHS and combine several state programs under a new agency focused on children.

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    16 分
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