Articles
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Budget & Tax
As tax cuts stall in Oklahoma, Arkansas moving ahead
In 2024 the Oklahoma Senate prioritized spending increases over income-tax reduction. Meanwhile, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is calling for a special session to reduce that state’s top personal income-tax rate to 3.9 percent.Ray Carter | June 13, 2024
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Economy
Oklahoma among top 10 states for job creation
An attorney who moved from California to Oklahoma says the move has provided her family with a better life in a better environment. And they are not looking back.Ray Carter | June 12, 2024
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Law & Principles
Drummond criticizes bar association
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 20 other state attorneys general say the standards imposed by the American Bar Association (ABA) for accreditation of law schools violate constitutional prohibitions on discrimination and should be junked.Ray Carter | June 11, 2024
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Education
Stitt signs bill ending special-needs discrimination
Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed legislation that requires schools to treat students with special needs the same as any other student when evaluating open-transfer requests.Ray Carter | June 10, 2024
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Education
Shawnee’s response to abuse raises concern
After all these years, one would think that Shawnee school officials would go to great lengths to demonstrate they take student safety seriously. Instead, the district is seeking to unmask whistleblowers.Jonathan Small | June 10, 2024
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Energy
Economists: ESG policies have harmful effects
The American Energy Institute has rebutted an analysis done by the Oklahoma Rural Association that claimed Oklahoma’s anti-ESG law has cost taxpayers money.Curtis Shelton | June 6, 2024
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Energy
Anti-ESG law not harming cities’ borrowing costs, study finds
The Oklahoma Rural Association claimed the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act increased municipal borrowing costs, but a new study by the American Energy Institute found flaws and omissions in their analysis that skewed its findings.Ray Carter | June 6, 2024
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Energy
Study finds government, not investor returns, fuels ESG fad
A new study shows that ESG investment is not pursued because it produces better returns but is instead largely the result of government pressure to promote ESG goals.Ray Carter | June 6, 2024
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Education
Oklahomans’ demand for school choice exceeds supply
Demand for Oklahoma’s school-choice tax credit has proven so robust it has blown well past the first-year program cap, leaving thousands of Oklahoma families unable to access the program.Ray Carter | June 5, 2024
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Law & Principles
Oklahoma state legislative races in full swing
Oklahoma voters will go to the polls in June, August, and November to select their state legislators. Republicans will have large majorities in both chambers, but the size of those majorities and the specific individuals who will fill the seats are in most cases yet to be determined.Rick Farmer, Ph.D. | June 5, 2024