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Oklahomans Embrace Income Tax Cut
By a better than two-to-one margin Oklahomans favor cutting the state income tax to 4.75%.Most significant groups top 50% in their support. It is supported by men (...
In-E-Quality: Quality Jobs Program morphs into easy money source fo...
Eighteen years in, Oklahoma’s economic development crown jewel, the Quality Jobs Program, has strayed far afield, costing taxpayers much...
Legal experts expect Supreme Court to eventually uphold Henry law
In light of Oklahoma's political climate, some legal experts believe the Oklahoma Supreme Court eventually will uphold a law that allows...
A Decade After Right-to-Work, Bitterness Remains in Oklahoma
Last month, Indiana enacted a law giving workers the choice to opt out of paying union dues. It’s the first successful right-to-work pro...
Education analysts respond critically to OU graduation rate disclos...
On Friday, March 30, CapitolBeatOK reported the four-year graduation rate at the University of Oklahoma is 35.7 percent, according to OU...
Four-year student graduation rate at the University of Oklahoma is ...
The four-year graduation rate for students at the University of Oklahoma is 35.7 percent – just over one-third of the undergraduate stud...
Poll finds Oklahomans willing to reform state spending
The majority of likely Oklahoma voters polled support a variety of reforms that analysts estimate would save the state of Oklahoma money...
House Republicans press transformational state income tax phase out...
A contingent of nine Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives today (Monday, March 12) discussed their advocacy of le...
Oklahoma Legislators, ALEC hold justice reinvestment session
Oklahoma legislators met February 28 at an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) roundtable discussion on justice reinvestment, a...
Laffer plan clears House Appropriations and Budget Committee
House Bill 3038, characterized by state Rep. Leslie Osborn as a “pristine version of Dr. Laffer’s Laffer plan,” cleared the state House ...
Analysis: Teachers association seeks $100 million in teacher raises...
The Oklahoma Education Association, the self-described, largest teacher’s association in Oklahoma, wants a $100 million across-the board...
Lobbying in Oklahoma by state-funded groups criticized
Three lobbyists for the University of Oklahoma are paid $187,000 a year at the state Capitol to push for issues, educate lawmakers and a...
50p tax rate 'failing to boost revenues’
The amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50p higher rate is not raising the exp...
State Finance: February brings all-time record in sales tax collect...
Oklahoma consumers punched it up a notch in late December and early January, as the state set an all-time monthly record for state sales...
Gov. Fallin on Efforts to Cut the Okla. Income Tax
Gov. Mary Fallin, (R-Okla.), on efforts to cut income taxes in the state.
Controversy swirls around state’s acceptance of President Obama’s w...
A former general counsel and former deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of Education believe the agency is putting the United S...
Leaders say ‘choice’ is key for education
EDMOND — More than 350 people filled Constitution Hall last Tuesday evening on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma to see j...
Brownback releases a tight Kansas budget proposal
TOPEKA | Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback proposed a tight state budget Thursday that would spend slightly less in state tax dollars, after tel...
School caters to children with autism
3 year old Nathan Small had been in and out of day care after day care. Instructors told his parents he was too disruptive, and wouldn’t...
New school for autistic children believed first of its kind in the ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — When you walk through the doors at The Good Shepherd Catholic School at Mercy, your eyes immediately are drawn to the wr...
