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Voters will get the chance to address Oklahoma’s exploding Medicaid costs, which threaten to divert hundreds of millions of dollars from things like schools and public safety, under two pieces of legislation approved by members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives this week.
Read moreSomebody should tell Mullin’s critics that academic credentials ain’t what they used to be.
Read moreIn recent years, the State of Oklahoma has engaged in business-subsidy bidding wars with other states, trying to land so-called “mega” projects. In those competitions, Oklahoma has generally fallen short, despite offering hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to individual businesses.
Read moreThere is a shortage of characters in this country of ours. I am not referring to stand up comics who are only funny when the camera is rolling or cocktail comedians who get laughs by using four letter words. I mean genuinely funny people who can make you laugh so hard your teeth hurt just by being themselves. Like a friend of mine who told a stewardess that we were dressed like cowboys because he was a gospel singer and I was a famous televangelist from Oklahoma City. After providing us with several rounds of free drinks the stewardess asked my friend to sing a gospel song over the airplane’s public address system. He responded by singing the only song he knew all the words to, The Castration of the Strawberry Roan.
Read moreAccording to the Oklahoma Office of Educational Quality and Accountability, 65.7 percent of all Oklahoma public-school students were considered economically disadvantaged in the 2023-2024 school year, the most recent for which full data is available.
Read moreIt’s time to ask some serious questions.
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Deranged fits two political groups
Read moreAs a kid my grandparents took my brother and me fishing every summer and the days we didn’t fish were reserved for going to ghost towns.
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