By:
David Blatt
August 16, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Everyone would agree that the right to vote is one of the most basic and cherished freedoms in a democracy. A ballot measure facing Oklahoma’s voters in November, SQ 746, raises the question of whether protecting the right to vote…
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By:
David Blatt
August 13, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He contributes regularly to our blog on education issues.
A large body of social science has demonstrated the long-term…
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By:
David Blatt
August 12, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This week, OK Policy put out the latest edition of Numbers You Need, our monthly bulletin of key economic and budget indicators for the state. Our main headline was of an economic recovery stuck in neutral. While there are certain…
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By:
David Blatt
August 10, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Treasurer Scott Meacham today announced that General Revenue (GR) collections for the first month of the new state fiscal year, FY ’11, came in 9.9 percent above the prior year and 11.9 percent above the official certified estimate. The sales…
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My decision to take vacation over the final week of July and first week of August allowed me to avoid not only some of the worst of the summer heat wave here in Oklahoma but also much of the heated…
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A key provision of the health care reform law passed in March creates new insurance options for individuals with pre-existing health conditions. The new program, known as the Oklahoma Temporary High Risk Pool, began accepting applications this week. Click here…
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By:
David Blatt
July 23, 2010 // Updated: October 17, 2012
We’re off next week to a conference of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative network, bracketed by several days of family time in New Mexico and Colorado. We’ll be back in early August rested and rarin’ to go!…
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Last week, Treasurer Scott Meacham presented the preliminary data on full-year collections to the state’s General Revenue fund for FY ’10, which ended June 30th. He emphasized both the magnitude of the decline in collections from the prior year –…
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John Thompson is an Oklahoma City teacher with 18 years of urban high school experience and an education blogger at thisweekineducation.com. He is a regular contributor to our blog on education issues.
All of the neighborhood high schools in the…
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Today, Oklahoma Policy Institute released an issue brief exploring State Question 744, the proposal that will appear on the November ballot that would peg Oklahoma’s education spending to the regional average per pupil expenditure in six neighboring states. On our…
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