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Weekend Brief   -   Aug 09, 2026 Seven things on the new DA's to-do list
District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory speaks at a podium beside a Stillwater Frontier Rotary Club banner on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Stillwater.

Plus: 17 of 22 officials told me how they'll vote on SQ 844 and 846

Weekend Brief   -   Aug 02, 2026 The new DA isn't waiting
District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory, holding a stack of files, smiles while talking with a man outside the district courtroom after his swearing-in July 31, 2026, at the Payne County Courthous

Why I won't report on court cases — and who could

A display board inside Stillwater Regional Airport's new terminal shows historical photos of the airport, including a 1951 black-and-white photo.
Weekend Brief   -   Aug 23, 2026 The Next Leg Begins for Air Travel in Stillwater

New airport terminal is proof of what town and gown can build when they run the same race together.

by Chris Peters
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Weekend Brief   -   Aug 23, 2026 The Next Leg Begins for Air Travel in Stillwater
A display board inside Stillwater Regional Airport's new terminal shows historical photos of the airport, including a 1951 black-and-white photo.

New airport terminal is proof of what town and gown can build when they run the same race together.

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Aug 09, 2026 Seven things on the new DA's to-do list
District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory speaks at a podium beside a Stillwater Frontier Rotary Club banner on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Stillwater.

Plus: 17 of 22 officials told me how they'll vote on SQ 844 and 846

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Aug 02, 2026 The new DA isn't waiting
District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory, holding a stack of files, smiles while talking with a man outside the district courtroom after his swearing-in July 31, 2026, at the Payne County Courthous

Why I won't report on court cases — and who could

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Jul 26, 2026 Vote early: SQ 844 and 846 Poll 📊
Vote early: SQ 844 and 846 Poll 📊

Plus: I built the poll with AI as the coder. Claude explains how we work together.

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Jul 19, 2026 You have until 9 PM tonight. Also: an Iranian missile strike and a $4B Oklahoma bet on aluminum
A crystal lens ball on a rock reflects turquoise water and snow-capped mountains at Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, taken by photographer Justin Eubanks.

Stillwater's about to get $1.3 million in federal security funding — plus annexation, rural water tower plans and airport rate study

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Jul 04, 2026 🎆 Here's to a more perfect union
🎆 Here's to a more perfect union

Citizenship, local musicians perform "America the Beautiful" at Block 34 — plus a fee overhaul and a pipeline land grab headed to Tuesday's council vote.

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Jun 28, 2026 Friday's storm reaffirms case against Bradford Pears

Plus: Payne County moves to block truck traffic on eight county roads, and Oklahoma rural hospitals are bracing for cuts that don't fully hit until 2027.

by Chris Peters
Weekend Brief   -   Jun 20, 2026 The primary's done. The Election Desk just got smarter.

New interactive district map, plus how to build a bionic brain

by Chris Peters
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