County voters reject SQ 802; Boston, Houser victorious; Runoff set for GOP commissioner nomination

Posted by John Small | Jul 1, 2020 | Main News

Voters in Johnston County - one of the rural counties that would have most benefitted from the initiative - rejected the proposed expansion of Medicaid to cover low-income adults in Oklahoma. State Question 802 failed in Johnston County during Tuesday’s elections, with just over 54 percent of the votes cast against the measure. With all […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

County voters reject SQ 802; Boston, Houser victorious; Runoff set for GOP commissioner nomination

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