Articles
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Budget & Tax
What drives income tax revenues: Tax rates or economic growth?
Examining the data suggests that employment level seem to have driven changes in income tax collections more than tax rates over the last decade in Oklahoma.Curtis Shelton | March 27, 2017
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Education
State Board of Education approves Le Monde International Charter School
For the second time this year, the State Board of Education has approved a charter school which was previously denied by a local school board.Jay Chilton | March 27, 2017
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Higher Education
Speakers question bias reporting system, lack of intellectual diversity at OU
Policies and official actions by leadership at the University of Oklahoma claiming to enforce “diversity and inclusion” actually deny First Amendment rights for students and promote a particular point of view at the state’s flagship university, according to two recent speakers.Jay Chilton | March 16, 2017
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Health Care, Law & Principles
HB 1913: A private-sector solution, not government dependence
House Bill 1913 is a private-sector solution for people who have real needs. Let’s hope lawmakers implement this legislation and resist the urge to strangle needed options for their fellow Oklahomans.Jonathan Small | March 13, 2017
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Budget & Tax
A public letter to state lawmakers
In the past few days a number of memos, emails and letters have been distributed regarding solutions to Oklahoma’s current budget challenge.Jonathan Small & Larry Parman | March 12, 2017
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Budget & Tax
State revenue makeup
It is no secret Oklahoma has seen tough times the last few years because of the decline of oil prices.Curtis Shelton | March 7, 2017
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Higher Education
Higher education is a mission–not an excuse
The mission of public education is to create an educated public, a people capable of self-government. Really, this means two different kinds of education.Trent England | March 1, 2017
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Criminal Justice
Oklahoma’s prison crisis: Working towards a solution
Last month in these pages, we explored the enormous cost of Oklahoma’s state prison system and the extraordinary growth in new prisoners that will require adding more prisons in the next two years.Jonathan Small & Trent England | March 1, 2017
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Budget & Tax
Should the government tax soda?
Worrisome trends in the prevalence of obesity and type II diabetes have raised questions about the role of the federal and state governments in regulating the healthfulness of consumers’ diets.Jayson Lusk | March 1, 2017
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Higher Education
Is illiberal education a public good?
Oklahomans agree that liberal education—education that helps people grow as rational beings who know truth—is a public good.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | March 1, 2017