Author: Chan Aaron

Kids Count Conference (OETA)

Policy Analyst Carly Putnam speaks about poverty at OICA’s Fall Forum: [youtube id=”trVdT3Jba94″ mode=”normal”]  … Read more [More...]

Oklahoma schools receive free breakfast and lunch (KTEN)

by Brenna Arthur “If I don’t eat breakfast in the morning, I’m not ready to learn,” Ardmore 8thgrader, Nikayla Coleman says. Nikayla Coleman is one of many students who feel that way about the most important meal of the day.… Read more [More...]

Bulldog Business: Wagoner schools funding takes cut from state (Wagoner Tribune)

by Randy Harris The start of a new school year is always such an exciting time. Our staff is invigorated at a fresh opportunity to get know the children of our community and excited about the academic progress the children… Read more [More...]

Has Oklahoma reduced its dependence on the oil and gas industry?

Chan Aaron is an OK Policy intern. He is pursuing an environmental policy degree at The University of Tulsa. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in philosophy and a veteran of the United States… Read more [More...]

Ginnie Graham: It’s taking a village to get the young ones to vote (Tulsa World)

by Ginnie Graham Where did all the voters go? It’s the ongoing struggle/question/debate about how to get Americans motivated to cast a ballot. Now, it’s a challenge just getting those eligible to even register. The youngest generation is absent. For… Read more [More...]

A license to wait (The Tulsa Voice)

By Barry Friedman On 21st Street between Southwest Boulevard and Chandler Park, along this testosterone-filled road of salvage yards, warehouses and surplus supply stores, sits the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety. It is an unremarkable building, as it should be.… Read more [More...]

Don Millican: We have to breathe, even if it is ‘Obama-Air’ (Tulsa World)

By Don Millican If oxygen was to be renamed “Obama-Air,” I am convinced that we in Oklahoma would hold our collective breath and refuse to breathe. I get it. As a state, we do not like the guy. It is… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma’s income inequality is at an all-time high

Chan Aaron is an OK Policy summer intern. He is pursuing an environmental policy degree at The University of Tulsa. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in philosophy and a veteran of the United… Read more [More...]

Health-care forum panelists weigh in on benefits, political unlikelihood of expanding Medicaid in Oklahoma (Tulsa World)

By Mike Averill Panelists at a health-care forum Wednesday discussed reasons the state should accept federal dollars to expand Medicaid, particularly through the Insure Oklahoma program, and the unlikelihood of that happening. Expansion would provide insurance to more than 100,000… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma continues to rank high for state and local sales-tax rates (Tulsa World)

By RANDY KREHBIEL Oklahomans continue to pay some of the highest combined state and local sales taxes in the country, according to an annual report by the Tax Foundation. At 8.78 percent, Oklahoma’s average combined sales-tax rate was slightly higher… Read more [More...]