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Women are severely underrepresented in leadership of state agencies (Guest Post: Alexandra Bohannon)

Alexandra Bohannon is an OK Policy Research Fellow. She is currently a second-year student in the Master of Public Administration program with a concentration in public policy at the University of Oklahoma. Alexandra works as a Graduate Research Assistant for… Read more [More...]

Pre-registration can improve Oklahoma’s dismal turnout by young voters (Guest Post: Matt Hecox)

Matt Hecox is an OK Policy Research Fellow in the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Oklahoma. Hecox has previously worked as a legislative assistant for the Oklahoma House of Representatives during the 2014 legislative session and… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma’s teacher shortage is not just about salaries (Guest Post: John Lepine)

This is the first of a three-part series appearing this week on the OK Policy Blog that will examine the reasons behind Oklahoma’s teacher shortage and what we can do to fix it. You can read part two here and… Read more [More...]

Until the state proves it can live within its means, it really should stop reducing them (Guest post: Ken Miller)

Ken Miller, PhD, is the Oklahoma State Treasurer and an economics professor at Oklahoma Christian University.  This post originally appeared as an article in the November 2015 Oklahoma Economic Report and is reprinted with permission. The billion dollar question that… Read more [More...]

Together, we can stop HIV/AIDS (Guest Post: Shannon Hall)

Shannon Hall is the Executive Director of Tulsa CARES, a social services agency for people living with HIV/AIDS.  World AIDS Day is December 1st: a day of remembrance for the millions who have lost their lives to the disease, a… Read more [More...]

We’re asking the wrong question (Guest post: Abby J. Leibman)

Abby J. Leibman is President and CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a national nonprofit organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. MAZON helps to fund OK… Read more [More...]

More ballot access reform is the best way to address historic low voter turnout (Guest post: Chris Powell)

Chris Powell is past chair of the Oklahoma Libertarian Party. Fewer people voted in the 2014 Oklahoma gubernatorial election than have participated in any election for governor in this state since 1978, when the population was about 900,000 people smaller.… Read more [More...]

With the right strategies, Oklahomans can overcome unprecedented drought (Guest post: Martin Koch)

Martin Koch is an M.A. student at the University of Kansas’s Department of Geography.  He recently earned a B.A. in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Oklahoma.  Oklahoma has struggled under severe drought conditions for most of the decade. Conditions… Read more [More...]

More hands needed to tackle senior hunger (Guest post: Laura Goldring)

Laura Goldring is CEO and Founder at MaddieLuke, LTD based in Duncan, OK.  An earlier version of this article was posted to LinkedIn. If you have not seen the 2013 documentary, “A Place At The Table,” I strongly encourage you… Read more [More...]

Americans with Disabilities Act is a gift to all Americans (Guest post: Britany Burris)

Britany Burris is a senior at Northeastern State University studying Political Science. She is a Disability rights and Deaf rights advocate here in Oklahoma, and she was a 2014 participant in OK Policy’s Summer Policy Institute. On July 26, 1990,… Read more [More...]