By:
David Blatt
December 2, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Doug Enevoldsen is City Manager for the City of Bixby. He has served in a variety of legislative and executive branch positions at the highest levels within Oklahoma state and local government.
Cities and towns are the backbone of Oklahoma’s…
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By:
David Blatt
November 22, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The ongoing state budget crisis has meant fewer state employees are assuming greater responsibilities. Sterling Zearley is Executive Director of Oklahoma Public Employees Association, the largest association representing state employees. I spoke with him by phone on November 16th. Here’s…
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By:
David Blatt
November 17, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Last week I attended the annual State Fiscal Policy conference hosted by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the top non-governmental organization analyzing state fiscal policy across the nation. The message we heard was clear and grim: As rough…
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By:
David Blatt
November 12, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Note: As the economy continues to struggle and revenue collections remain well below pre-downturn levels, we thought this a good time to repost a blog we first ran in January of this year challenging an argument we continue to hear…
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By:
David Blatt
November 3, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Several months ago, with polls showing SQ 744 ahead by a two-to-0ne margin and supporters announcing that the National Education Association had committed over $3 million to the Yes campaign, many thought that the measure’s passage was a slam-dunk. Subsequent…
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By:
David Blatt
November 1, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Justin Jones, the author of this blog post, is Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with 34 years of correctional experience.
Like many other state agencies, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has been confronted with severe budget reductions…
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By:
David Blatt
October 27, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
We’re nowhere close to being out of the woods. That’s been our message of late on the state’s budget outlook (you can take a look here at our blog post analyzing of the most recent monthly revenue collections and here…
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By:
David Blatt
October 20, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Say that you’re a lower-income working-class family and the house you’re living in is falling into disrepair. There are cracks in some of the walls, parts of the backyard fence have fallen in, and you know that pretty soon you’re…
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By:
David Blatt
October 14, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Remember Mikey from those old cereal commercials? He was the picky eater whose siblings foisted a bowl of Life cereal in front of him saying, “It’s supposed to be good for you. But he won’t eat it. He hates everything”.…
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By:
David Blatt
October 12, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The latest revenue collections announced today (PDF) by Treasurer Scott Meacham continue to confirm that while revenues are recovering from their precipitous drop during the worst of the downturn, the recovery is slow and far from complete.
September’s General Revenue…
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