Category: Media

Kids Count Conference (OETA)

Policy Analyst Carly Putnam speaks about poverty at OICA’s Fall Forum: [youtube id=”trVdT3Jba94″ mode=”normal”]  … Read more [More...]

Oklahoma schools receive free breakfast and lunch (KTEN)

by Brenna Arthur “If I don’t eat breakfast in the morning, I’m not ready to learn,” Ardmore 8thgrader, Nikayla Coleman says. Nikayla Coleman is one of many students who feel that way about the most important meal of the day.… Read more [More...]

Bulldog Business: Wagoner schools funding takes cut from state (Wagoner Tribune)

by Randy Harris The start of a new school year is always such an exciting time. Our staff is invigorated at a fresh opportunity to get know the children of our community and excited about the academic progress the children… Read more [More...]

Ginnie Graham: It’s taking a village to get the young ones to vote (Tulsa World)

by Ginnie Graham Where did all the voters go? It’s the ongoing struggle/question/debate about how to get Americans motivated to cast a ballot. Now, it’s a challenge just getting those eligible to even register. The youngest generation is absent. For… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma lawmakers rack up $1.3M travel bill (NewsOK)

By Rick Green Oklahoma Senate and House members racked up more than $1.3 million in travel expenses in the 2015 fiscal year, much of it to cover mileage and lodging.    The average legislator got about $8,700 in expense money, plus… Read more [More...]

A license to wait (The Tulsa Voice)

By Barry Friedman On 21st Street between Southwest Boulevard and Chandler Park, along this testosterone-filled road of salvage yards, warehouses and surplus supply stores, sits the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety. It is an unremarkable building, as it should be.… Read more [More...]

Don Millican: We have to breathe, even if it is ‘Obama-Air’ (Tulsa World)

By Don Millican If oxygen was to be renamed “Obama-Air,” I am convinced that we in Oklahoma would hold our collective breath and refuse to breathe. I get it. As a state, we do not like the guy. It is… Read more [More...]

Legislators to study privatization of Commerce Department (Journal Record)

By Dale Denwalt OKLAHOMA CITY – Business recruitment might be more efficient if the state privatizes all or part of the Department of Commerce, a lawmaker said. State Rep. Leslie Osborn has looked at the model adopted by Arizona, which… Read more [More...]

Health-care forum panelists weigh in on benefits, political unlikelihood of expanding Medicaid in Oklahoma (Tulsa World)

By Mike Averill Panelists at a health-care forum Wednesday discussed reasons the state should accept federal dollars to expand Medicaid, particularly through the Insure Oklahoma program, and the unlikelihood of that happening. Expansion would provide insurance to more than 100,000… Read more [More...]

New OK Policy report examines barriers to affordable housing for Oklahomans with felony convictions

A new report from Oklahoma Policy Institute, titled “Barriers to Affordable Housing for Oklahomans with Felony Convictions,” shows how Oklahoma’s major public housing assistance programs exclude people with felony records from getting help. The report also discusses alternative models used… Read more [More...]