By Emory Bryan
TULSA, Oklahoma –
This past year, the Oklahoma Legislature came closer than ever to creating education savings accounts – what critics simply call school vouchers.
And next year, the legislature will almost certainly try again.
The public…
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By Jaclyn Cosgrove and Rick Green
The state Medicaid director announced his resignation Monday in a letter to the agency’s board, noting it was the “right time to explore options in the private sector.”
Oklahoma Health Care Authority CEO Nico…
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By Sally Asher
Enid Public Schools officials agreed to hire teachers to offer instruction in middle school Pre-AP courses earlier this week, and administrators have announced how they will fund the new teachers.
As budget cuts and teacher shortages ravage…
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By Janelle Stecklein
OKLAHOMA CITY — Two years after troopers got hefty raises, the state can no longer afford them and is considering furloughs and other cuts to make ends meet in the Department of Public Safety.
The plight of…
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By Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Staff
With the exception of New Jersey, the dust has now settled on most state legislatures’ 2016 tax policy debates. Many of the conversations that took place in 2016 were quite different than…
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By Rick Green
Ultraconservative issues pushed by Edmond preacher Paul Blair appear to be hurting him in fundraising for the state Senate District 41 race against former Air Force Capt. Adam Pugh.
Business interests are concerned that some of Blair’s…
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By Barry Friedman
“I personally don’t like sales taxes particularly.”
That was OU President David Boren, during an interview with Intermission Magazine in January, talking aboutState Question 779, an amendment on November’s ballot that would raise sales taxes statewide by…
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By The Oklahoman Editorial Board
IN recent years, critics have noted Oklahoma’s state government budget has increasingly relied on one-time funds as an ever-smaller share of money is run through the formal state appropriation process. A recent article in Governing…
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By Michael Overall
STILWELL — With no air conditioning on a brutally hot summer afternoon, 19-year-old Breeze Bunch is sitting on the front porch with a half-empty Pepsi and a bottle of sunscreen.
“Why don’t you go splash in the…
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Proponents are calling state question 777 the “right to farm” amendment but opponents say it is really “a right to harm” . The question asks voters to limit what laws the state legislature can pass regarding farming and ranching. Proponents…
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