Articles
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Health Care
Oklahomans’ medical debt points up the need for price transparency
As health care costs steadily rise, it is time for medical providers to be upfront with service costs.Kaitlyn Finley | June 17, 2021
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Education
Secularization and schooling
Education policy may well be the primary contributor to the secularization of American society.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | June 16, 2021
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Economy
Black Wall Street showed benefit of free markets
Oklahomans should not ignore other lessons provided by the rise and resurrection of “Black Wall Street,” Tulsa’s Greenwood district.Jonathan Small | June 16, 2021
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Education
School-board-endorsed insurer going under
An entity selling property insurance coverage to school districts, which paid more than $1.5 million to the Oklahoma State School Boards Association for endorsements, is going out of business at the end of June.Ray Carter | June 15, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma higher education reform: Lessons from Idaho
Policymakers should look to Idaho in order to bring much-needed transparency and oversight to Oklahoma’s institutions of higher education.J. Mark Ousley | June 15, 2021
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Budget & Tax
Oklahoma policymakers should beware the Biden spending binge
Late last month, most states, counties, and major cities across the country received 50% of their allotment from the bloated $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP).Mike Mazzei | June 14, 2021
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Higher Education
Lawsuit seeks release of OU report on Boren allegations
NonDoc has filed a lawsuit in Cleveland County District Court asking a judge to order the release of two reports prepared by the Jones Day law firm for the University of Oklahoma, including one report dealing with sexual allegations against former OU President David Boren.Ray Carter | June 11, 2021
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Budget & Tax
Stitt’s decision to incentivize work is the right one
Gov. Stitt made the right move in putting an end to the $300 federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits for Oklahomans.Curtis Shelton | June 10, 2021
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Higher Education
At USAO event, BLM leader touts cop killer
T. Sheri Dickerson, president of the Oklahoma City Black Lives Matter chapter, touted two radical activists involved in killings of a judge and a police officer in the 1970s during an online speech hosted by the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.Ray Carter | June 10, 2021
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Education
Oklahoma’s ‘best’ school fares poorly in national comparison
The Jenks Public Schools district has been identified as the best school in Oklahoma in a national review, despite that same evaluation finding less than half of students at the district read at grade level.Ray Carter | June 9, 2021