New poll on tax cuts shows opposition if schools and safety affected
Advocates of cutting the state income tax quote polls showing a majority of Oklahomans favor the reductions. But a new poll released by the Oklahoma Advocacy Project shows the opposite is true, if it...
View ArticleTax Cut Bill Stalled
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has stalled a leadership-backed bill to cut the state's income tax and then declined to explain why the bill has been laid over. The decision Tuesday by...
View ArticleNew Report: "A Well-Educated Workforce Is Key to State Prosperity"
Our guest on this edition of ST is Peter Fisher, research director at the Iowa Policy Project, who co-wrote a recently published paper , "A Well-Educated Workforce Is Key to State Prosperity," for the...
View ArticleDavid Blatt of the Oklahoma Policy Institute on How Our State Can Redress Its...
As our state's newly inaugurated legislative session continues, there's been no shortage of bills that've attracted attention from the national media -- for less than favorable reasons -- including...
View ArticleA Letter to Lawmakers Asks for a Tax Cut to be Halted
A letter has gone to Oklahoma political leaders calling for a halt to a tax cut set to go into effect in January. Those behind the letter believe it is irresponsible to continue with the cut given the...
View ArticleSome Legislative Leaders are Reconsidering a State Tax Cut
The Republican state senate Finance Chairman says lawmakers should consider delaying the income tax cut that went into effect January 1st. Tulsa Senator Mike Mazzei believes it’s a prudent option given...
View ArticleThe OK Policy Institute's David Blatt on Gov. Fallin's Recommendations to...
Yesterday at the State Capitol, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin offered her recommendations to the State Legislature on how to fill next year's estimated $1.3 billion budget deficit. Her "Budget 2.0"...
View Article"Days of Reckoning" Arrive at the State Capitol: A Chat with Wayne Greene of...
On this installment of ST, we speak with Wayne Greene, the editorial pages editor at the Tulsa World. As noted at the World's website , Greene is a "fourth-generation Oklahoman in his third decade with...
View ArticleStudioTulsa Presents "Along the Watershed" -- StateImpact's 2014 Doc on...
There are six waterways in eastern Oklahoma that are considered so environmentally and economically significant they're given special consideration and protection from the state. These so-called Scenic...
View ArticleAs "the 11th Hour" Approaches, We Consider Certain Efforts to Balance the...
In a budget year with a predicted $1.3 billion shortfall, today is a major day in the Oklahoma Legislature; it's the last day (ostensibly) during which the state legislature can consider revenue bills....
View ArticleLooking Back at the Recently Completed Oklahoma Legislative Session
"An inadequate budget has state continuing to sink to the bottom." "Legislature cuts budgets for all, except the Legislature." Such have been two recent headlines for editorials appearing in the Tulsa...
View ArticleCollectively Calling on Oklahoma to Fix Its Budget Woes: The Save Our State...
What's to be done regarding the troubling condition of Oklahoma's budget? Lawmakers in OKC have only about a month left to address this serious budget shortfall in the 2017 session of the Oklahoma...
View ArticleConfronting a Newly Created $214 Million Budget Deficit at the State Capitol
Last week's Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating the State Legislature's cigarette cessation fee means that there's now a $214 million budget deficit in this year's budget. This gives Oklahoma...
View ArticleStep Up Oklahoma: Why This Group Was Created, What It's Seeking, & How It...
How will this state's very serious budget problems get solved? And when? What, in the end, is it going to take? On this edition of StudioTulsa, we learn about Step Up Oklahoma, which is, per its...
View ArticleBefore the Oklahoma State Legislature Begins Its New Session Next Week, a...
On this installment of StudioTulsa, with the Oklahoma State Legislature set to begin its new session on Monday of next week, we check in with David Blatt, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Policy...
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