State Question 779 would bolster education funding with a 1 percent rise in sales and use tax.
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How is it that a teacher’s beginning salary is $31,000 when that amount can easily be made by other positions that hold much less value when it comes to forming the minds of our youth?
How is it that a teacher’s beginning salary is $31,000 when that amount can easily be made by other positions that hold much less value when it comes to forming the minds of our youth?
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Wanna get lucky?
Credit: Brad Gregg Purportedly the digits for the lottery commission, the toll-free number turned out to be a sex line. The mix-up proved to be a real boner for state lottery officials, who quickly owned up to the mistake. The office discontinued the phone number in 2010 but inadvertently had left it on the website. […]
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Don’t bet on it
However, if more money is needed, the solution is easy. The gaming venues in our state annually send nearly $200 million in direct tax revenues to the Capitol for legislators to spend. Most men and women serving in that hallowed and falling-down building are Republicans, members of the same party that voted almost unanimously against […]
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Lottery limbo
Rollo Redburn Credit: Mark Hancock Politicians and industry officials guessed that figure could be upwards of $150 million per year, depending on how likely Oklahomans were to buy tickets. But no one really knew, and if you asked for a wager, they would say, “Wait until it’s started.” As it turns out, the lottery has […]
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Losing bet
Credit: Shannon Cornman Twelve certified gambling treatment programs in the state receive that money from the state Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The amount was set when casino gambling in Oklahoma began in 2004. While such treatment programs receive additional funds from anonymous donors and grants from some American Indian tribes that […]