Utilizing that decision, the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Forward IV program and the Oklahoma City firefighters union each created a string of entities to inundate OKC’s spring 2011 council elections with $631,041 to attack or support council candidates. No campaign reports have been filed identifying the source of this campaign funding, only the name of […]
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End academic segregation
Sadly, Oklahoma continues to practice a less obvious, but equally pernicious, form of segregation — one based on school size and inadequate academic offerings. Worst of all, recent legislation to address this injustice has been sidetracked by objections from the usual suspects who seem to resist every worthy school reform: the school administrators themselves. They […]
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A senator’s parting thoughts
To the Republicans at the Capitol: Being entirely dismissive of the minority party’s views is just as toxic to good government as it was when the ruling Democrats did it. Little good comes from single-party rule — regardless of which party is in charge. Don’t become what you used to abhor. To Republican voters in […]
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Art pays
What if that same amount also covered you annually for most other arts festivals, theater and dance performances, and art exhibits throughout the state? What if your annual 105 pennies were also the catalyst for a $314 million economic impact on Oklahoma? If you divided the amount of state-appropriated funds given to the Oklahoma Arts […]
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Historic help
But these tax credits are well worth keeping. They drive economic development by incentivizing developers to acquire dilapidated historic buildings and renovate them. Only construction work approved by the U.S. National Park Service is eligible for tax credits. This credit drives construction jobs and material purchases for the rehabilitation of properties. The credits provide the […]
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Historic help
But these tax credits are well worth keeping. They drive economic development by incentivizing developers to acquire dilapidated historic buildings and renovate them. Only construction work approved by the U.S. National Park Service is eligible for tax credits. This credit drives construction jobs and material purchases for the rehabilitation of properties. The credits provide the […]
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Online sales, offline ails
Cyber Monday 2011 was the largest online shopping day in history with $1.25 billion spent. While that doesn’t sound so bad for our national economy, it has a huge, negative impact on businesses and municipalities in Oklahoma. Businesses in Oklahoma are required to collect sales tax from their customers and remit to the state, with […]
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Online sales, offline ails
Cyber Monday 2011 was the largest online shopping day in history with $1.25 billion spent. While that doesn’t sound so bad for our national economy, it has a huge, negative impact on businesses and municipalities in Oklahoma. Businesses in Oklahoma are required to collect sales tax from their customers and remit to the state, with […]
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The 99 percent
Occupy OKC and the entire Occupy Wall Street movement have started a long-overdue discussion about the inequity of growing wealth disparity and economic injustice, with some OWS supporters even using the label “oligarchy” to describe the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. It’s this type of language that could eventually stick and raise awareness. Along the […]
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The 99 percent
Occupy OKC and the entire Occupy Wall Street movement have started a long-overdue discussion about the inequity of growing wealth disparity and economic injustice, with some OWS supporters even using the label “oligarchy” to describe the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. It’s this type of language that could eventually stick and raise awareness. Along the […]