By: Drew Capps
March 25, 2015 // Updated: April 3, 2015
By Brianna Bailey
A new study on payday lending in Oklahoma has uncovered evidence that high-interest lenders target economically distressed communities by opening storefronts in poorer areas and near military installations.
The study, from the “Demographics on Payday Lending in… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
March 24, 2015 // Updated: April 3, 2015
By Warren Vieth
Oklahoma’s premier business incentive, the $1 billion Quality Jobs program, entered new territory nine years ago.
Until then, businesses only received payroll subsidies from the state if they created new jobs in Oklahoma.
In 2006, the program… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
March 15, 2015 // Updated: April 3, 2015
By Brianna Bailey
Like many Oklahomans, people in the economic development business cringed after blurry cellphone video of the University of Oklahoma fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s racist chant went viral and made national headlines last week.
When trying to lure… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
March 4, 2015 // Updated: March 13, 2015
By Ginnie Graham
It’s not fair to say, “Laws are like sausages — it’s better not to see them being made.” That’s a libel against pork.
German leader Otto von Bismarck and poet John Godfrey Saxe have had this quote… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
February 26, 2015 // Updated: February 27, 2015
By Michael Cross
The State of Oklahoma is facing a $611 million dollar shortfall in the 2016 budget year which starts July First.
On Wednesday, February 26th, KOSU held its monthly On Tap series to focus on how to deal… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
February 21, 2015 // Updated: March 13, 2015
By Renee Lewis
While Oklahoma lawmakers debate controversial funding cuts for an Advanced Placement (AP) United States history course, critics say the measure is a politicized distraction. Instead, they say, the legislators should focus on the more pressing issue of… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
February 17, 2015 // Updated: March 4, 2015
By Associated Press and KGOU Staff
State agencies in Oklahoma are being told to brace for budget cuts after a state board led by Gov. Mary Fallin certified that the Legislature will have $611 million less to spend this year.… Read more [More...]
By KWGS News
Oklahoma’s budget shortfall is deeper than what officials expected. The state Equalization Board today said state lawmakers will have $611.3-million dollars less to spend this year than last.
The state says the decrease is brought on by… Read more [More...]
By: Drew Capps
February 9, 2015 // Updated: February 27, 2015
By Rick Green
One of the strategic objectives on the state’s new “performance transparency website” calls for sharply decreasing the number of Oklahomans without health insurance.
The state could go a long way toward achieving this objective by expanding Oklahoma’s… Read more [More...]
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