Articles
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Education, Good Government
Experts urge Oklahoma to reinstate third-grade reading law
Oklahoma’s fourth-grade reading scores have collapsed to near the bottom nationally. In a recent legislative study, literacy leaders urged state lawmakers to reinstate Oklahoma’s once-successful third-grade reading law, which required early intervention and retention when necessary.Ray Carter | October 22, 2025
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Economy
Data show $15 minimum wage tied to restaurant job losses
A proposed $15 minimum wage under State Question 832 would backfire on the very workers it claims to help. The Employment Policies Institute estimates the measure would eliminate more than 12,000 restaurant jobs in Oklahoma.Curtis Shelton | October 21, 2025
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Budget & Tax, Good Government
Oklahoma Democrats decry government shutdown caused by D.C. Democrats
Three weeks into the federal government shutdown, Oklahoma Democrats are blaming Republicans for the looming loss of food-stamp benefits—even as Democratic leaders in Washington continue to block multiple GOP efforts to reopen the government.Ray Carter | October 21, 2025
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Health Care, Culture & the Family, Good Government
Work requirements could help 125,000 Oklahomans move from welfare to work
Work requirements recently enacted by Congress could help more than 125,000 able-bodied Oklahomans transition from welfare to work, lawmakers were told during a recent study.Ray Carter | October 21, 2025
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Good Government
Brecheen: ‘Open primary’ designed to help left-wing politicians
U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen is warning Oklahomans that a proposed “open primary” system—modeled after California’s “top two” elections—would tilt Oklahoma politics sharply to the left.Ray Carter | October 21, 2025
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Law & Principles
Former Californian warns: ‘top two’ model would be a disaster for Oklahoma
State Question 836 would replace Oklahoma’s current party-primary system with a California-style “top two” model. Julie Collier, an Oklahoma teacher who lived in California for years, says the “top two” model destroyed meaningful competition and handed total control to the far left.Ray Carter | October 20, 2025
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Higher Education
Senator: OU’s weak response to TPUSA harassment is too little, too late
The University of Oklahoma is facing sharp criticism over its handling of campus vandalism targeting conservative students.Ray Carter | October 20, 2025
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Energy
Green energy increases utility bills
As wind and solar energy expand to record levels across the U.S., electricity prices continue to surge—an outcome the green-energy movement prefers to ignore.Jonathan Small | October 20, 2025
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Education
If Oklahoma’s public schools are ‘accountable,’ why are all these high-school graduates illiterate?
“One in four young adults across the U.S. is functionally illiterate—yet more than half earned high school diplomas,” says a new report. It’s time for the Oklahoma Legislature to put an end to social promotion in our state’s unaccountable public schools.Brandon Dutcher | October 17, 2025
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Higher Education, Culture & the Family
OSU professor says black people ‘may be in danger’ at white churches
An Oklahoma State University professor who says he teaches “through the lens of Critical Race Theory” has published a column that appears to endorse racial segregation in churches, warning that black Americans “may be in danger” if they attend “white churches.”Ray Carter | October 16, 2025