By Rep. Mark Lepak
Greetings from the state capitol! The House of Representatives and the Senate cleared the last of 399 and 434 bills, respectively, out of the 3,500 originally filed during a hectic deadline week. The late nights have…
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By Senator J.J. Dossett
In 2014 thousands of Oklahoma teachers, parents, students and education advocates rallied at the state Capitol. I was one of those teachers who traveled to Oklahoma City, asking the governor and legislative leaders to make education…
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By David Walters
Watching the demise of Oklahoma’s state-government services (public education, health care, corrections, infrastructure funding and mental health, to name a few) is similar to watching a car accident or the Donald Drumpf campaign: You are horrified, but…
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By Rich Fisher
On Thursday of last week, the State Legislature arrived at a deadline for moving legislation forward — and thus many bills advanced in the Oklahoma Legislature from one chamber into the other, while many other bills were,…
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By Kimberly Jackson
TULSA — The Governor and Republican leaders want Oklahoma to tap into the Rainy Day Fund, to help schools and prisons survive budget cuts, for the last part of this fiscal year.
The fund would provide $78…
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By Kim Morrison
Legislation proposed this year to authorize daily fantasy sports contests could strike a blow to Oklahoma education funding as well as tribal gaming exclusivity.
The Oklahoma Fantasy Contests Acts, HB 2278 and SB 1396, would legalize the…
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By Doktor Zoom
Republicans in Oklahoma’s House of Representatives are apparently sick and tired of Florida and Maine being the shittiest to their poor people. So by an overwhelming majority, the Oklahoma House voted last week to kick 111,000 single…
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By Sidney Lee
The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services told state agencies to prepare for an additional 4 percent cut of their annual state allocations.
This comes a few months after state agencies took a 3 percent cut.…
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By Josh McBee
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As the 2016 Oklahoma legislative session advances, the Republican-controlled House has advanced at least two bills of note so far.
HB 2665: Low-income Oklahomans face loss of health coverage
Rep. Doug Cox (Provided)
The first involves…
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By Jessica James
A new student organization is empowering college students to make the changes they want to see in their communities by teaching them how to conduct policy research and possibly write legislation.
The Roosevelt Institute is a national,…
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