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It’s easy to look at Oklahoma’s challenges and feel discouraged. Our public schools struggle for resources. Too many families struggle for basic needs. Rural communities fight for hospitals and essential services. Too often, political division overshadows the real solutions we can solve together. But something else is happening across Oklahoma. And it should give us
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Tribal Nations are the backbone of Oklahoma, and it’s time for state leaders to act like it. Tribal governments existed before statehood, before Oklahoma’s borders were drawn, and before state leaders claimed authority over this land. Tribes are not special interest groups. They are not temporary political actors. They are Sovereign Nations with responsibilities to
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Another step toward Gov. Kevin Stitt’s goal of eliminating the state income tax largely went unnoticed this session. Although more complicated than his earlier flat-budget mantra, this move is, in my view, just as damaging. At the beginning of the legislative session, Stitt called for a “state sovereign wealth fund,” apparently patterned after Alaska’s “Alaska
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