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Personal income is an important economic measure of a state's well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state's residents are able to purchase more goods and services such as homes, cars, education, and health care.

"A House committee Wednesday approved a measure to require state employees and agency heads to report how much time they spend talking with legislators promoting or opposing legislation," The Oklahoman reports.

Hillary Clinton once averred that the president needs to be "ready on day one to be commander in chief of the U.S. economy." Umm, no. And no governor, Republican or Democrat, should fancy himself the "steward" of Oklahomans' property or financial affairs. Brad Henry is the commander-in-chief of the state militia, not the commander-in-chief of the state economy.

Ah, what the geography majors are studying in Norman these days.

It takes 18 Oklahomans in the private sector to fund one Oklahoma state government job.

"My sister-in-law came to visit me last week from her new home in Silver Spring, Maryland," World magazine essayist Andrée Seu wrote in November. "When the economy threatened, she left a good job in the private sector in Florida for the greater security of a job with the Department of Veterans Affairs."

It looks like Oklahoma could be back in the chips again. The head of the state's most powerful labor union says that President Obama's "stimulus" plan will free up some funds here in Oklahoma. Hey, that's good to hear.

"Wiped out," huh? Sounds serious.

"The current economic strategy is right out of Atlas Shrugged," our friend Stephen Moore writes today in The Wall Street Journal

"The U.S. and dozens of other nations are returning to massive government spending as a recession fighter," Sudeep Reddy reports today in The Wall Street Journal.