The Oklahoman By Hogan Gore December 15, 2021
After altering rules and overcoming opposition to pass the state's highway naming bill in May, Oklahoma GOP legislators have yet to provide promised funding for signage along a 20-mile stretch of Panhandle highway designated "President Donald J. Trump Highway."
Republican lawmakers slipped two paragraphs about naming a section of U.S. 287 in Cimarron County, from Boise City to the Texas border, after the former president in the bill that typically seeks to memorialize notable Oklahomans.
In this case, lawmakers amended a section in Senate Bill 624 that requires the person whose name is to be bestowed on the roadway to have been dead for at least three years, an Oklahoman or a current politician.
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