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OCPA in the Edmond Sun: You can learn a lot from a fifth-grader
Writing this week in the Edmond Sun, OCPA executive vice president Brian Bush says true statesmanship—the kind exemplified by e...
Forbes Writer Lauds OCPA Fellow’s ‘Revolutionary’ Idea
In a lengthy article published on December 29, 2012 (“Brownback says his changes in Kansas are a model for the nation”), The Kansas ...
Look Out Texas—Here Comes Kansas!
[The following is excerpted from the State of the State Address delivered on January 15, 2013, by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback.] ...
Kansas Is Cutting Taxes, Right-Sizing Government
On January 1, 2013, historic tax cuts were implemented in Kansas. Lawmakers in Nebraska and Louisiana are watching, with the chief exec...
OCPA in the Journal Record: It's time to cut our lottery losses
Writing in The Journal Record, OCPA Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow Andy Spiropoulos writes that the lottery has not lived...
Time to Do Something Great: A Freedom Agenda for 2013
It’s been said that there are two types of people in politics: those who want to be somebody great, and those who want to do something g...
OCPA in the Oklahoma Gazette: Over-regulating energy costs jobs
Writing in the Oklahoma Gazette, OCPA executive vice president Brian Bush outlines the facts about the energy industry in Oklah...
If you can read this, thank a roughneck
I sat there and took it all in, eating one of the best burgers I have ever tasted (thank you, Bricktown Burgers!), great country music p...
Top 5 signs Oklahoma is open for business
In case you missed the inaugural edition last week, welcome to "Thursday's Top 5," a new feature on the OCPA blog! Turn on the TV for...
Faces of freedom
I often tell people that I am passionate about OCPA’s mission because it reflects the values on which I was raised. As a farm boy from s...
Tax Cuts ‘A Shot of Adrenaline’ into Kansas Economy
When Jeff Colyer and I took office in January of 2011, tens of thousands fewer Kansans were working in private-sector jobs than a decade...
OCPA Memo ‘Played a Major Role’ in Historic Tax Cut
In an October 2010 memorandum (“A Tale of Two States: The Real Effect of Individual Income Tax Cuts”), OCPA research fellow Steve Anders...
James Inhofe: "You can't run this machine called America without fo...
Fossil fuels might be finite, but, at this point in the development of the United States, they're indispensable. Support for private res...
The Korbe Report
August 17, 2012 ALL BETS ARE OFF An attempt to permanently enshrine the right to collective bargaining in the Michigan </stron...
Oklahoma: The final frontier for freedom
The Washington Post highlighted Oklahoma in an article yesterday about public disdain toward the Obamacare individual mandate, ...
Ranking Oklahoma’s Economy
Over the last few years, a veritable cottage industry has arisen ranking states on any number of issues. The upside of these rankings is...
What Oklahoma Can Learn from Florida's Education Success
As Florida’s recent education reforms are being praised and implemented by other states hoping to mirror Florida’s strong academic gains...
Are Families Moving to Oklahoma?
New evidence suggests families are moving to Oklahoma in droves. Now we just need more family-and job-friendly policies to keep them here.
Building a More Prosperous Oklahoma
For decades, economists and other social scientists have researched how government policy can help promote stable and prosperous societi...
Is Oklahoma Addicted to Federal Spending?
Oklahoma's share of President Obama's federal "stimulus" package will come to approximately $2.6 billion over two years-or an average of...
