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TOP HEADLINES
With water settlement inked, tribes now selling the details back home:
The deal has been praised by state leaders as a historic accord that ends the tribes’ lawsuit that blocked Oklahoma City’s plan to pump water out of the region. But the deal still has to be sold to tribe members in that part of the state [StateImpact Oklahoma].
Early voting this week for Tuesday runoff election in Oklahoma:
Early voting is scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday for Tuesday’s runoff election, which will include 13 state legislative races and one congressional contest [The Oklahoman].
STATE
Gov. Mary Fallin has 140.8 million solutions, but not nearly enough (editorial):
Every day that we get closer to Nov. 8, the pressure builds on Gov. Mary Fallin and the Oklahoma Republican leadership.Right now they have two problems and 140.8 million possible solutions, but that’s not nearly enough [Tulsa World].
Oklahoma faith leaders declare support of SQ 779:
A group of faith leaders on Thursday called voter support for a ballot measure to fund education and teacher pay raises in Oklahoma a “moral imperative” [Tulsa World].
ELECTIONS
Poll regarding young voters should concern GOP:
A new poll finds that most millennial voters are unlikely to vote Republican in the presidential election — which, if that happens, would mark three straight cycles where the GOP lost the younger vote. It’s a trend that should concern party leaders [The Oklahoman].
Trump agriculture team lets lobbyists know who to cultivate:
It means that farm policy in a Trump administration would be largely guided by the pro-agribusiness, anti-regulation farm “establishment,” rather than outsiders who might do things like, oh, separate the farm bill from food stamps, as called for in the Republican Party platform [Bloomberg].
MISCELLANEOUS
Americans should eat less meat, but they’re eating more and more:
As it turns out, there was a simple reason meat consumption dropped between 2005 and 2014. It wasn’t growing awareness about animal rights or the environment; instead, it was that supplies were tight and prices were higher [Vox].
Message to food companies: food activists are your brand managers:
Food industry marketers no longer have the sole power to shape consumer tastes and fuel demand for their products. That power has been largely hijacked by new influencers—public health activists, celebrity nutritionists, politicians, food bloggers—who have their own agendas and can influence public sentiment as never before [Forbes].
Every month this year has been, on average, hotter than any other in recorded history:
Month by month, 2016 has been the hottest year in recent world history, according to figures from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that go back to 1880 [Quartz].
