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Oklahoma’s budget crisis demands revenue leadership
In August, the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision to invalidate a recently enacted fee on cigarettes brought Oklahoma’s budget crisis back to the fore. While the...
Gerrymandering, voting access focus of 2017 Town Hall
I’ve recently returned home from the Oklahoma Academy's 2017 Town Hall, and my adrenaline is still pumping. Although first founded in 1967, the nonpartisan...
OK School for the Blind students experience Blind Boys of Alabama
In my business, sometimes you walk down the street, get offered a show ticket and end up observing music students from the Oklahoma School...
Tom Delonge wants you to pay his way ‘To The Stars ‘
Last week, Tom Delonge (of Blink 182 fame) announced he is starting an entertainment company called To The Stars. What kind of entertainment company...
DeBarr Avenue name change: Norman suffers paralysis by analysis
A guest column in Sunday’s Norman Transcript from Norman City Councilman Bill Hickman demonstrates the problem of paralysis by analysis that causes governmental bureaucracies to...
‘New’ OKCPS teaching blueprint plots same dubious path
Eighteen years ago, the very survival of the Oklahoma City Public School System was at risk. That is why participants in MAPS for Kids...
Oct. 23 OKCPS board meeting briefs
(Editor's note: The following briefs were composed based off of events that took place Oct. 23 during a regular meeting of the Oklahoma City...
An #okleg poem: ‘The building waits with bipartisan hate’
(Editor's note: A bipartisan revenue plan reached in the Oklahoma State Senate stalled in a House committee Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. While lawmakers caucused,...
The Oklahoma Legislature has been naughty
The Oklahoma Legislature has made a list, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court is checking it twice and finding a few "fees" that fall under...
If education were like basketball: A short story
I walked from the parking lot to the campus with a measured pace, alternating between staring eye-level at the restless crowd in front of...
