Category: Media Coverage

Questions Surround State Subsidies Aimed at Saving Jobs

By Warren Vieth Oklahoma’s premier business incentive, the $1 billion Quality Jobs program, entered new territory nine years ago. Until then, businesses only received payroll subsidies from the state if they created new jobs in Oklahoma. In 2006, the program… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma boosters advise bad news is bad for business

By Brianna Bailey Like many Oklahomans, people in the economic development business cringed after blurry cellphone video of the University of Oklahoma fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s racist chant went viral and made national headlines last week. When trying to lure… Read more [More...]

Ginnie Graham: Listen in on your lawmakers; you might be surprised

By Ginnie Graham It’s not fair to say, “Laws are like sausages — it’s better not to see them being made.” That’s a libel against pork. German leader Otto von Bismarck and poet John Godfrey Saxe have had this quote… Read more [More...]

How Do You Solve a $611M Shortfall?

By Michael Cross The State of Oklahoma is facing a $611 million dollar shortfall in the 2016 budget year which starts July First. On Wednesday, February 26th, KOSU held its monthly On Tap series to focus on how to deal… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma debate over US history overshadows education cuts, critics say

By Renee Lewis While Oklahoma lawmakers debate controversial funding cuts for an Advanced Placement (AP) United States history course, critics say the measure is a politicized distraction. Instead, they say, the legislators should focus on the more pressing issue of… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Equalization Board Certifies $611 Million Shortfall (KGOU)

By Associated Press and KGOU Staff State agencies in Oklahoma are being told to brace for budget cuts after a state board led by Gov. Mary Fallin certified that the Legislature will have $611 million less to spend this year.… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Budget Hole: $611.3 Million

By KWGS News Oklahoma’s budget shortfall is deeper than what officials expected. The state Equalization Board today said state lawmakers will have $611.3-million dollars less to spend this year than last. The  state says the decrease is brought on by… Read more [More...]

Medicaid expansion gets no traction in state Legislature (NewsOK)

By Rick Green One of the strategic objectives on the state’s new “performance transparency website” calls for sharply decreasing the number of Oklahomans without health insurance.   The state could go a long way toward achieving this objective by expanding Oklahoma’s… Read more [More...]

Fallin’s Oklahoma-Meter Picks Up Praise, Skepticism (Duncan Banner)

By Janelle Stecklein Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday unveiled an online barometer of health, crime, education and other factors in the quality of life in Oklahoma — an initiative that she says will hold government accountable for spending. But leaders… Read more [More...]

David Blatt Discusses the Budget with Tulsa World Editorial Editor Wayne Greene (Tulsa World TV)

http://www.tulsaworldtv.com/Budgetary-Priorities-David-Blatt-discusses-the-budget–28285978… Read more [More...]