By: Tyler Parette
April 27, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
By Kevin Mahnken
The purchase of a lottery ticket offers an assurance of virtue with its promise of vice. Shell out for a Powerball or scratch ticket, ads declare, and you’ll be making a deposit to your state’s education fund… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 20, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
By D.E. Smoot
About 331,000 eligible workers and families in Oklahoma shared $844 million as a result of the federal earned income tax credit, and some of those taxpayers qualified for a refund thanks to a similar state credit.
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By Dale Denwalt
Oklahomans expecting an income tax cut will probably have to keep waiting.
Lawmakers have approved a bill repealing the next automatic cut, which could trigger as state revenues improve.
The Oklahoma House overwhelmingly supported the measure on… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 18, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
By Heide Brandes
OKLAHOMA CITY – On Tuesday, the Save Our State (SOS) coalition, a group of more than 21 statewide organizations ranging from education to mental health to basic human needs, unveiled their budget blueprint for Oklahoma’s current fiscal… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 17, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
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Efforts to collect criminal fines and fees have been ramped up to help fill the funding gap. But is that process cost effective? The problem of costly efforts to collect fees from criminal defendants has caught the… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 10, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
Last November, Oklahoma voters crushed a State Question 777, a proposed constitutional amendment in Oklahoma to create a “right to farm” — a measure to deregulate agriculture in the state on a go-forward basis. Despite a multi-million dollar campaign to… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 9, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
By Dale Denwalt
A bill allowing out-of-state insurance carriers to sell plans in Oklahoma will be heard in committee next week.
The House author of Senate Bill 478 said his measure would give Oklahoma residents a chance to buy less… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 7, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 7, 2017 – The Oklahoma Stewardship Council (OSC) says a bill pending before the state lawmakers is nothing more than a legislative scheme to undermine the will of Oklahoma voters.
The OSC, a coalition of family farmers,… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
April 5, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2017
By Lacey Lett
OKLAHOMA CITY – House Bill 1913 will create a new small loan for those borrowing between $500-$1,500.
“They’re voluntary. No one is forced to take them, and they’re to people that for whatever reason in their life,… Read more [More...]