By:
Gene Perry
December 15, 2015 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Oklahoma Policy Institute released the following statement in response to official projections that Oklahoma will enact midyear budget cuts this year and is expecting a $900.8 million budget hole next year:
The projected mid-year cuts and next year’s massive budget…
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By:
Steve Lewis
December 11, 2015 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.…
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By:
Guest
December 8, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Ken Miller, PhD, is the Oklahoma State Treasurer and an economics professor at Oklahoma Christian University. This post originally appeared as an article in the November 2015 Oklahoma Economic Report and is reprinted with permission.
The billion dollar question that…
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By:
David Blatt
November 30, 2015 // Updated: May 1, 2019
This is an updated and expanded version of a column that originally appeared in the Journal Record.
No one who observes or participates in developing Oklahoma’s budget is happy with how things work.
Each year, the Legislature approves billions in…
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By:
Gene Perry
November 19, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last month, a group of Oklahomans led by University of Oklahoma President David Boren launched an effort to put an initiative petition on the ballot that would restore funding to education in Oklahoma through a 1 percent statewide sales tax…
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By:
David Blatt
November 18, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
As Oklahoma staggers through an apparently endless string of bad budget years, our investments in education, health care, public safety, and infrastructure that are tied to the annual budget cycle are suffering. Amid all the cuts and all the struggles…
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By:
Steve Lewis
November 6, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.…
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By:
Gene Perry
November 4, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In a recent House interim study led by Rep. Mark McCullough, lawmakers returned to a subject that has been attempted several times in Oklahoma’s recent history. They once again looked at eliminating Oklahoma’s income tax or transforming it into a…
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By:
David Blatt
October 26, 2015 // Updated: May 1, 2019
As Oklahoma grapples with a deepening budget crisis, one of the greatest challenges our policymakers face is the absence of a full and forward-looking picture of the state’s financial situation to help guide tax and spending decisions.
Year after year,…
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By:
Steve Lewis
October 23, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.…
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