By:
Carly Putnam
November 5, 2013 // Updated: January 9, 2014
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,…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 26, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
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…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 21, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
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…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 17, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
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.…
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Carly Putnam
October 13, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
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…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 3, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
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…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 2, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
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…
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By:
Carly Putnam
September 30, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
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…
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Carly Putnam
September 20, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
OK Policy analyst Gene Perry discusses OK Policy’s report on state educational funding cuts, which found that Oklahoma had made the deepest cuts per pupil of any state in the US.
http://www.oeta.tv/video/3635.html…
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By:
Carly Putnam
September 18, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Arnold Hamilton
When it comes to ObamaCare, state Insurance Commissioner John Doak should be indicted for political malpractice.
With important elements of the new federal law coming online Oct. 1, you’d expect Oklahoma’s public servants to be hard at…
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