{"id":186,"date":"2011-08-16T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=186"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:07:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T18:07:34","slug":"welcome-to-stateimpact-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/08\/16\/welcome-to-stateimpact-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to StateImpact Oklahoma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re here because you&#8217;re curious about Oklahoma&#8217;s budget.<\/p><p>Perhaps you&#8217;re a policy junkie eager for the latest on appropriations, or a political wonk who wants insight on the impact of budget cuts. Or maybe you&#8217;re questions are more simple: How do budget cuts affect health, education and public safety here in Oklahoma? What&#8217;s a transferable tax credit, and where&#8217;s all my tax money going?<\/p><p><a href=\"stateimpact.npr.org\">StateImpact<\/a> is a collaboration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\">NPR<\/a> and public broadcasters in each state. The Oklahoma project is lead by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgou.org\">KGOU<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosu.org\">KOSU<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwgs.org\">KWGS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kccu.org\">KCCU<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeta.tv\">OETA<\/a>.<\/p><p>The goal is to drill down and focus on Oklahoma&#8217;s budget. We&#8217;ll explain the basics, analyze the trends, and explore the real-world impact budgetary policy has on Oklahomans.<\/p><p><!--more-->StateImpact Oklahoma is a multimedia project lead by digital reporter Joe Wertz and a yet-to-be-named broadcast reporter. Our reports will be online and over the air. We&#8217;ll produce documentaries and narrative features, data-rich analysis and digital features.<\/p><p>We want to hear from you! What questions should we ask? What budget-related stories need told? What needs explaining and exploring? What <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> you understand about Oklahoma&#8217;s budget?<\/p><p><strong>How to reach us:<\/strong><\/p><p>To email both reporters, click <a href=\"mailto:stateimpact@kgou.org\">here<\/a>. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><p>Joe Wertz, digital reporter: <a href=\"mailto:jwertz@ou.edu\">jwertz@ou.edu<\/a><\/p><p>Twitter: @StateImpactOK<\/p><p>Phone: 405-325-5468<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re here because you&#8217;re curious about Oklahoma&#8217;s budget.Perhaps you&#8217;re a policy junkie eager for the latest on appropriations, or a political wonk who wants insight on the impact of budget cuts. Or maybe you&#8217;re questions are more simple: How do budget cuts affect health, education and public safety here in Oklahoma? What&#8217;s a transferable tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[52],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}