Commentary
Keith Hazelton
Oklahoma's lottery, approved 2-to-1 by voters in 2004, promised it would fix a funding gap in the state's K-12 educational system, conveniently deferring some of the difficult decisions legislators an...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
While recession rages around us and now encroaches upon our borders, according to the latest tax revenue numbers from Oklahoma State Treasurer Scott Meacham, one corner of the state's economy is boomi...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
As gasoline prices plunge to near record lows, only a few months after reaching record highs above $4 a gallon, an unintended casualty regrettably may be the nascent enthusiasm for alternative and ren...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
A year ago, our state's business outlook appeared bright. But over the horizon, storm clouds were gathering and a malaise of Seventies-style stagflation " higher prices, falling asset prices and slugg...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
T. Boone Pickens, legendary oilman and Oklahoma university benefactor, has a plan to relieve our oil addiction, that pesky substance abuse problem first identified by President Bush in January 2006. ...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
Plan A for the proposed Ford Center upgrade is a Tuesday vote to extend Oklahoma City's 1-cent MAPS for Kids sales tax for a year to fund major improvements and another three months to build a practic...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
Clean-burning natural gas or abundant, less-expensive coal? The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has been asked to approve a new power plant to be built in Red Rock, a joint venture between OG&E El...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
A quarter-century ago, Penn Square Bank failed spectacularly in Oklahoma City, ushering in the untimely end of a previous oil boom, indelibly changing the landscape of banking throughout the state and...

News
Keith Hazelton
Oklahoma 's economy is bright and sunny, but taxpayers should note the balance of the interest-free loan we have made to the state in the form of our rainy day fund. ...

Commentary
Keith Hazelton
Addiction, it is said, often blinds those so afflicted to the moral and ethical considerations of behaviors intent on satisfying their habits. In our present oil addiction, we so fervently have embra...