By: Tyler Parette
December 12, 2017 // Updated: May 1, 2019
As Oklahoma’s 2018 legislative session approaches, the state continues to struggle with huge and chronic budget shortfalls and an inability to make the critical investments needed to ensure our prosperity and well-being. We are seeing real and encouraging signs of… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 19, 2017 // Updated: September 6, 2017
By Wayne Greene
The critical issue behind all of the recent turmoil at the state Capitol — and one of the keys to a revenue solution for Oklahoma — is the gross production tax.
That’s the tax the state applies… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 12, 2017 // Updated: May 17, 2017
By Janelle Stecklein
OKLAHOMA CITY — Members of Oklahoma’s Save Our State Coalition acknowledge when organizers put out their emergency “SOS” call that a group of seemingly strange bedfellows responded.
After all, in today’s divisive political climate where longtime allies… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 11, 2017 // Updated: May 17, 2017
By Elizabeth Steinocher
Every single day, I get to wake up and work with the most incredible minds. Every day, I get to see these young minds tackle problems and learn to work through something with a friend. Every day,… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 10, 2017 // Updated: May 17, 2017
By Paul Stinson
A bill putting Oklahoma among the first states to decouple from the federal tax code in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tax reform proposal is on the governor’s desk following Senate passage.
The legislation separates the… Read more [More...]
By World’s Editorial Writers
By a narrow margin, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the American Health Care Act, the long awaited “repeal and replace” alternative to “Obamacare.”
The bill eliminates one of the least popular elements of “Obamacare,”… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 9, 2017 // Updated: May 17, 2017
By World’s Editorial Writers
Gov. Mary Fallin did the right thing when she vetoed House Bill 1913, a proposal to create an expensive new form of payday lending that could charge customers up to 204 percent annual interest.
Shame on… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 4, 2017 // Updated: May 17, 2017
DAN ZIELINSKI, director of the planetarium at Jenks High School in Oklahoma, whizzes through his greatest hits. First he projects onto its dome a 3D image of a human heart; next comes the Sistine Chapel, then the solar system. The… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
May 3, 2017 // Updated: May 17, 2017
By John Thompson
During a budget-briefing breakfast hosted by Oklahoma Policy Institute on April 26, executive director David Blatt drew upon Bob Dylan’s saddest lyrics to warn that the first half of his presentation would be unrelentingly depressing. It included the… Read more [More...]
By Mollie Bryant
Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a bill on Friday that would have created a loan with a 204 percent annual interest rate.
In her veto message, Fallin wrote that the bill, which reflects a national push from the… Read more [More...]
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As Oklahoma’s 2018 legislative session approaches, the state continues to struggle with huge and chronic budget shortfalls and an inability to make the critical investments needed to ensure our prosperity and well-being. We are seeing real and encouraging signs of… Read more [More...]
