Category: Media

Doak announces re-election bid here; Insurance commissioner launches bid at luncheon (Muskogee Phoenix)

By D.E. Smoot Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak launched his bid for re-election Thursday during a Rotary Club luncheon at the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The Tulsa native was elected to his first term in 2010, which he describes… Read more [More...]

Stymied by Healthcare.gov? There Are Other Ways to Shop for Marketplace Health Plans (Oklahoma Watch)

By Warren Vieth Looking for health insurance? Can’t get the Obamacare website to work? There are other ways to shop. You can go directly to insurance company websites, where you’ll find coverage details and premium costs of every policy each… Read more [More...]

Was That a Threat? (Tulsa Kids)

By Betty Casey The long-awaited, controversial A-F assessment of your child’s school will be released by the State Department of Education this week. After several miscalculations by the State Department and many postponements, the grades are ready to be released,… Read more [More...]

Analysts split on shale gas future (Tulsa World)

By Susan Hylton  Domestic oil and gas production is discussed with great passion today among those who talk of an energy renaissance that is revolutionizing the industry and perhaps U.S. policy. They credit new hydraulic fracturing technologies in horizontal drilling… Read more [More...]

Economic Development: Where The Jobs Are (KGOU)

By Kurt Gwartney You can click through to the original article to hear the panel discussion moderated by Kate Richey on  Oklahoma’s economic development at our Summer Policy Institute. Links to other SPI panel discussions can be found here. A… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Bar Association to present diversity awards to 6 law-related individuals and groups (The Republic)

The Associated Press The Oklahoma Bar Association plans to honor six individuals and organizations for promoting diversity in Oklahoma. Each will receive the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award during the annual Oklahoma Bar Association Diversity Conference on Oct. 24.… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Forum: Wages and the Income Gap (OETA)

OK Policy director David Blatt, with Jonathan Willner, Economics Department Chair at the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business, and Fred Morgan, President of the State Chamber of Oklahoma, discuss widening income inequality and its impact on Oklahoma. http://www.oeta.tv/video/3653.html… Read more [More...]

Obamacare meets extra resistance in Oklahoma (Los Angeles Times)

By Maeve Reston   The nation’s healthcare law was written with the residents of rural counties like Choctaw in mind. A quarter of the Oklahomans who live in the ranch country near the southeastern corner of the state are uninsured, one… Read more [More...]

FDIC Fines Peoples Bank $20,000 For Its Lending Practices (Public Radio Tulsa)

Peoples Bank Tulsa must pay a $20,000 fine to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for discriminatory lending practices. Regulators say the bank charged Hispanic borrowers higher rates on car loans than similar non-Hispanic borrowers. The filing, made public earlier this… Read more [More...]

Supporting The Safety Net: Examining Poverty In Oklahoma (KGOU)

By Brian Hardzinski and Kurt Gwartney You can click through to the original article hear the entire “Poverty and the Safety Net” panel discussion moderated by Linda Edmondson at our Summer Policy Institute.  Census Bureau data released in September show… Read more [More...]