As the U.S. House of Representatives considered S. 365 last night, I reviewed the language included in S. 365 pertaining to a balanced bu...

Even though its students’ average ACT score is 14.5, one Oklahoma school is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on video games and ...

When I bet Jay Mathews of The Washington Post that school choice would have a banner year in 2011, I had no idea what kind of forces I wa...

In June the Bureau of Economic Analysis released new personal income data for the first quarter of 2011. Oklahoma’s private sector share ...

In the July issue of The Scientist magazine, two Oklahoma institutions are given high marks for being among the top ten Best Places to Wo...

Oklahoma lawmakers aiming for serious spending reform, take heart. Indiana and other states are experiencing budget surpluses largely due...

On May 10 Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed five significant reform proposals that will, advocates say, begin transforming state gover...

On June 27, 2011, the Chicago-based Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA) announced completion of a comprehensive study of all 50 stat...

Last year in these pages, we explained how Oklahoma’s public pension crisis is significantly larger than the official estimates.1 In a se...

Americans may be surprised to learn that little solid evidence exists to support the claim that expanding health insurance will improve t...

A CapitolBeatOK examination of Oklahoma public school data has found a total of 202 public school superintendents who are paid more than ...

I just got back from California on Monday where three of my kids and my wife and I enjoyed a family camping vacation. We traveled by car ...

On May 10 Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed five significant reform proposals that will, advocates say, begin transforming state gover...

Across the nation, a growing number of students are benefiting from innovative online learning options. These options range from full-tim...

A group of Republican state legislators in Oklahoma has said that if Congress sends such a federal balanced budget amendment measure to t...

More than a decade ago some of us made the argument that Oklahoma should get rid of its individual income tax and replace it with nothing...

Local and municipal elections are being held today in more than a dozen Oklahoma counties. If you’re like me, you have no clue if there’s...

A recent report from the United States Senate shows that Obamacare, with its new rules prohibiting insurers from denying coverage for chi...

In recent FaxLine Reports, I have discussed the new movement toward “sustainability” and its potential impact on society. This movement e...

A teachers’ union president in the midst of negotiations with the Oklahoma City Public schools and state Superintendent Janet Barresi wer...

Ever wonder what the goal of progressives (i.e., liberals) really is? Why do they push so hard to regulate businesses and micromanage ind...

Michael B. Horn was in Oklahoma City last month and gave a terrific presentation at the OCPA symposium on digital learning. In a new blog...

“The rise of the modern administrative state, the growth of bureaucracy at every level and the host of benefits the public has come to ex...

Earlier this week at CapitolBeatOK, Patrick McGuigan reported that 2,605 people in Oklahoma’s state government are earning six-figure sal...

A new Rasmussen survey finds that 71 percent of Americans believe too many people get welfare who shouldn’t be getting it. And you can re...

Two years after lawmakers expanded Medicaid to cover poor adults without children, the state is vastly scaling back the program because t...

Liberal journalist Frosty Troy gave a talk to about 150 Garfield County Democrats yesterday, Robert Barron reports in the Enid News and E...