Articles
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Higher Education
OSU president Kayse Shrum in denial
If we want college leaders to stop the subterfuge and start listening to the taxpayers, making them personally liable for their actions will go a long way.Jonathan Small | January 2, 2024
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Budget & Tax
With surging state revenue, Stitt, McCall push for tax cuts
Oklahoma lawmakers are set to have an additional $457.9 million for the 2024 legislative session, with a total of around $11 billion in recurring revenue, leading Governor Kevin Stitt to say those conditions make a tax cut easily achievable in the 2024 legislative session.Ray Carter | December 22, 2023
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Education
Rural charter school to expand into Okmulgee
The State Board of Education has approved a request by The Academy of Seminole, a rural charter school, to open a new branch in Okmulgee after community leaders voiced support, citing parental dissatisfaction with the academic results produced by the community’s traditional public school.Ray Carter | December 22, 2023
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Education
Walters calls for elimination of DEI in public schools
Following Gov. Kevin Stitt’s recent executive order that restricts “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs and staff in state colleges and universities, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said the Oklahoma State Department of Education is proposing new regulations that will impose similar restrictions on public K-12 schools.Ray Carter | December 21, 2023
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Economy
Oklahoma remains top 10 in domestic migration
Liberals claim that conservative policies are driving people away from Oklahoma and making the state a national pariah. Census data say otherwise.Ray Carter | December 21, 2023
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Energy
OU seeks a ‘climate justice’ professor ‘oriented to social action’
The University of Oklahoma is seeking to hire a professor whose research encompasses “climate justice” and a transition away from fossil fuels and is “oriented to social action.”Ray Carter | December 20, 2023
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
OCPA continues defense of ban on child sex-change measures
OCPA continues to defend a state law that makes it illegal to provide children with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or sex-change surgeries as a treatment for gender dysphoria.Ray Carter | December 19, 2023
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Higher Education
As college DEI spending surges, buildings neglected
Oklahoma's public colleges spent $83.4 million on controversial "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) programs over the last decade, including drag-queen performances and presentations on topics like "Black Jesus." Lawmakers are concerned that this DEI spending may be diverting funds from essential needs, as state colleges request an additional $200 million for neglected building maintenance during a recent budget hearing.Ray Carter | December 15, 2023
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Higher Education, Law & Principles, Good Government
Stitt takes aim at race-based discrimination in colleges
With a newly issued executive order, Gov. Kevin Stitt is seeking to downsize or eliminate “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) offices and bureaucracy at Oklahoma colleges and to prevent state colleges from engaging in illegal discrimination.Ray Carter | December 13, 2023
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Law & Principles
Lawmaker says probation fees being diverted
State Rep. Justin Humphrey says fees imposed on individuals released from prison and placed on probation have not been used for oversight of those convicted criminals. Instead, he said the money is being diverted to other uses, and he has asked Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond to investigate.Ray Carter | December 13, 2023