
Bah-He-Toya-Mah is an OK Policy summer intern. She has a political science degree from Oklahoma City University and is completing postgraduate studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Tribal Administration and Governance program. Prior to OK Policy she worked at her…
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Chan Aaron
July 6, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019

Chan Aaron is an OK Policy summer intern. He is pursuing an environmental policy degree at The University of Tulsa. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in philosophy and a veteran of the United…
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Drew Capps
May 28, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019

Drew Capps interned with OK Policy this spring and recently graduated from the University of Tulsa.
We’ve discussed previously, and at length, why Governor Fallin’s decision to reject federal funds to expand health coverage to low-income Oklahomans is the wrong…
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Shannon Guss is the Educare Project Director at the Early Childhood Education Institute (ECEI) at the University of Oklahoma – Tulsa. Ryan Gentzler is a Research Associate at ECEI and an OK Policy Research Fellow.
With two bills from 2011…
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David Blatt
February 18, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019

The 2015 session is now underway and it’s clear that this year, as always, will feature heated debates on a multitude of contentious issues, from proposals to expand school choice through vouchers and charter schools to efforts to rein in…
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Nikki Hager
February 12, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019

This post is by OK Policy intern Nikki Hager. She is a senior Political Science and Economics major at the University of Tulsa.
In November, President Obama issued an executive order to grant deportation relief to approximately half of the…
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Guest
December 22, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019

Hannibal B. Johnson is a Harvard Law School graduate who teaches at Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. His several books include Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District, Black Wall Street, Up from the Ashes, and Acres of Aspiration. A…
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Gene Perry
December 5, 2014 // Updated: August 27, 2026

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Each week, the OK PolicyCast brings you the most important news about Oklahoma and what it means. In this episode, we talk…
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David Blatt
September 11, 2014 // Updated: December 10, 2020

This is an edited version of remarks made to a community form hosted by the Dan Allen Center for Social Justice on “Resegregation of Tulsa Schools” held September 4, 2014. All statistics, along with their sources, are compiled in this…
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Carly Putnam
September 9, 2014 // Updated: June 13, 2019

NOTE: This article was published in 2014 when Ft. Sill was first used to detain migrant children and has not been updated to reflect the detention of migrant children at Ft. Sill in 2019.
At the end of July, we…
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