T. Sheri Dickerson, Marina Mangiaracina and incumbent John Pettis Jr. will be on the Feb. 14 election ballot.
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Letters to the Editor: September 23, 2015
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to jchancellor@okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com. Include a city of residence and contact number for […]
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 26, 2015
But no buildings were destroyed to make way for the Devon Tower; it was an architecturally insignificant parking garage!
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Commentary: Income inequality at all-time high
Rising income inequality has become one of the biggest concerns for U.S. and world leaders in recent years, and for good reason. As recent data from Economic Policy Institute shows, income inequality in the United States is near a historic high not reached since just before the Great Depression. While incomes for Oklahoma households are […]
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Poor figures, poor logic
The first problem is the use of a national figure for poverty. There is no national poverty level. Poverty in New England is a far cry from poverty in Oklahoma; dollars in these two parts of the nation are not equal. Poverty incomes in New York are middle-income in Oklahoma, and so on. Another statistical […]
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The gap
Rotunda of the state Capitol Credit: Shannon Cornman Despite rising income inequality in the U.S. — a growing gap spotlighted by last year’s presidential campaign and the Occupy Wall Street movement — some Oklahoma leaders have wanted to make the state’s already-regressive tax code even more so. Although the top 5 percent of the state’s […]