By:
David Blatt
January 10, 2011 // Updated: May 1, 2019
By now, it is well known that the state budget has been under severe duress over the past two years. Overall, as we show in the latest version of our Budget Trends and Highlights fact sheet, this year’s state appropriations…
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By:
David Blatt
January 6, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Any Oklahoman with an interest in mental health issues would do well to read the article titled “Asylum” that appeared in the December issue of This Land, a new Tulsa-based monthly magazine. The article is a vivid first-hand account by…
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By:
David Blatt
January 5, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Donna Rhodes is the CEO of the Long Term Care Authority, a public trust authority of the city and county of Tulsa leading the Tulsa community and the state in addressing long term care reform.
While the voice of long…
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By:
David Blatt
January 3, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Michael Fogarty, Chief Executive Office of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, will be speaking on “The Economics of Health Care Reform” at noon on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at the Oklahoma History Center. The talk is the first spring lecture…
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By:
David Blatt
December 29, 2010 // Updated: October 17, 2012
As 2010 winds down, I wanted to take a moment to offer a heartfelt thanks to all of you who have helped make this a very good year for Oklahoma Policy Institute.
The year started with OK Policy in the…
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By:
David Blatt
December 28, 2010 // Updated: October 17, 2012
Last year I managed to rouse myself out of my post-Christmas, pre-New Years slumber long enough to pull together a Top 10 list of our most popular blog posts. If this organization, with its rich history dating all the way…
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By:
David Blatt
December 27, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Earlier this month, we released a brief that provided our projections for state revenue collections for Fiscal Years 2011 through 2014. Last week, the State Board of Equalization certified its official preliminary revenue estimates for FY ’12, along with updated…
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By:
David Blatt
December 22, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The State Board of Equalization met yesterday to certify preliminary revenue estimates for the upcoming budget year, FY ’12. These estimates will form the basis for the Governor’s Executive Budget that will be delivered in early February; the Board will…
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By:
David Blatt
December 20, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma Policy Institute is delighted to be hosting economist Dean Baker for a talk titled, “The Great Recession: How We Got In and How We Get Out” at the Dilly Deli restaurant in Tulsa, January 9th, 2011. The event will…
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By:
Paul Shinn
December 17, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, was this month’s speaker at DHS’ Practice and Policy Lecture Series. Haskins looked at causes and offered solutions to the persistence of poverty in the United States. He attributed poverty to four…
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