By:
David Blatt
January 29, 2010 // Updated: October 17, 2012
Do you know who chairs the Senate Appropriations committee? When the deadline is for passing bills out of their original chamber? How much money there is in the Rainy Day Fund? The answers to these questions – and more! –…
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By:
David Blatt
January 27, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Our friends over at Oklahomans for Responsible Government have a blog post up on the FY ’10 budget agreement expressing dismay over the use of (an unspecified amount of) Rainy Day Funds to help cover this year’s revenue shortfall. They…
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In a press release Tuesday afternoon, Governor Brad Henry, Speaker Chris Benge and Senate Pro-Tem Glenn Coffee announced agreement on how to address the shortfalls in the FY ’10 budget that have resulted from this year’s revenues coming in sharply…
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By:
David Blatt
January 26, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
This month’s announcement of December General Revenue collections didn’t seem to provide much in the way of good news. Revenues for the month again came in around 30 percent below levels of one year ago (graph) and 30 percent below…
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By:
David Blatt
January 22, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
No piece of legislation in Oklahoma in the past decade was more controversial or contentious than HB 1804. Passed in 2007, HB 1804 – officially designated the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Act – enacted a series of restrictions intended to…
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By:
David Blatt
January 20, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Today’s Tulsa World has a strong editorial opposing legislative proposals to enact further restrictions on property taxes. For those who haven’t been following, this week has seen a public flare-up of a long-simmering internal battle within the House Republican caucus…
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By:
David Blatt
January 19, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Last week I attended the Stand Up for Seniors advocacy forum which focused on the impact the state’s worsening economic and fiscal situation is having on programs serving seniors. State Treasurer Scott Meacham was among the elected officials who addressed…
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By:
David Blatt
January 14, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
In writing about the state’s current budget woes, I’ve tended to say that Oklahoma is in the midst of its worst fiscal crisis since the oil bust of the 1980’s. Whether we were around during those days or not, I…
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By:
David Blatt
January 13, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Kurt Hochenauer, whose OkieFunk: Notes from the Outback blog provides consistently sharp and perceptive commentary on Oklahoma political issues, recently had a nice piece in the Oklahoma Gazette putting the recent rise in poverty in the state in its historical…
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Just a quick post to let you know that the Oklahoman today ran an op-ed setting out the policy proposals we have developed for managing budget downturns. The op-ed was based on the full issue brief and 1-page summary we…
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