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Free Market Friday: Fairy tales pensions and math

5/31/2020

Oklahoma House Republicans decry Washington DC-style politics and then turnaround and act just like the swamp. See how Oklahoma House Republicans are breaking their promises?

Primarily because of Republican House members, lawmakers voted to raid state pensions and increase benefit payments to state government retirees – without funding to cover the increased cost, durin…

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Free Market Friday: Fairy tales, pensions and math
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 30, 2020 at 07:54PM

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Lives and livelihoods are decimated by surgery bans

5/31/2020

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Oklahomans are fortunate that our state’s “elective” surgery ban has been lifted. People in other states are not so lucky.

The U.S. health care system is starting to collapse, and lives and livelihoods are being endangered and lost. The cause of this malady is easy to

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Lives and livelihoods are decimated by surgery bans
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 30, 2020 at 10:00AM

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Free Market Friday: Fairy tales pensions and math

5/30/2020

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Lawmakers ignored financial reality and still voted for an unfunded benefit increase. The unfunded COLA further drains pension assets, adding an estimated $400 million in unfunded liability to the teachers’ system alone.?

Free Market Friday: Fairy tales, pensions and math
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 29, 2020 at 04:33PM

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Nikki Haley proposes requiring colleges to disclose Chinese funding | The College Fix

5/30/2020

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The former U.S Ambassador to the United Nations has proposed requiring American colleges and universities to disclose all Chinese Communist government funding of professors and researchers.

At a site called “Stop Communist China,” Stand for America urges visitors to sign a petition to “stop the Chinese Communist government’s deception and manipulation.

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Nikki Haley proposes requiring colleges to disclose Chinese funding | The College Fix
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 29, 2020 at 12:59PM

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Dont Put Anything of Value in the Mail Except Your Michigan Ballot

5/30/2020

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Enter the word “Oklahoma” in a Google search bar and then add the terms “postal” and “sentenced.”

On Tuesday, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that each of the state’s 7.7 million registered voters will receive an absentee ballot application for the November 2020 general election. This is a brand-new policy with an anticipated upcharge of $4.5 million, to be drawn from $3 b...

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Don’t Put Anything of
Value in the Mail--
Except Your Michigan Ballot
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 29, 2020 at 09:58AM

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Medicaid expansion the wrong path for Oklahoma

5/30/2020

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The title says it all?

Even before COVID-19, nearly every state that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare drastically underestimated the cost—putting their already-stretched state budgets in a bind.

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Medicaid expansion the wrong path for Oklahoma
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 29, 2020 at 08:40AM

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Medicaid expansion the wrong path for Oklahoma

5/29/2020

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Even before COVID-19, nearly every state that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare drastically underestimated the cost—putting their already-stretched state budgets in a bind.

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Medicaid expansion the wrong path for Oklahoma
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 27, 2020 at 07:00PM

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K-12 school budget built on one-time funding

5/29/2020

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Gov. Kevin Stitt said the plan set up the state for significant budget challenges next year.

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K-12 school budget built on one-time funding
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 27, 2020 at 07:00PM

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Leader of teacher walkout loses teaching license

5/29/2020

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One of the chief ringleaders of the 2018 statewide teacher walkout was stripped of his teaching license following his arrest for making lewd proposals to a minor.

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Leader of teacher walkout loses teaching license
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 27, 2020 at 07:00PM

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K-12 school budget built on one-time funding

5/29/2020

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“When we start to look at the next year’s budget, we have to make up roughly $550 million just to get back to zero. It fixes a short-term problem, but it doesn’t necessarily solve our long-term problem," said Oklahoma State Board of Education member William Flanagan.

Gov. Kevin Stitt said the plan set up the state for significant budget challenges next year.

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K-12 school budget built on one-time funding
by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs - May 28, 2020 at 08:56PM

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Free Market Friday: Fairy tales pensions and math

Lives and livelihoods are decimated by surgery bans

Free Market Friday: Fairy tales pensions and math

Nikki Haley proposes requiring colleges to disclose Chinese funding | The College Fix

Dont Put Anything of Value in the Mail Except Your Michigan Ballot

Medicaid expansion the wrong path for Oklahoma

Medicaid expansion the wrong path for Oklahoma

K-12 school budget built on one-time funding

Leader of teacher walkout loses teaching license

K-12 school budget built on one-time funding

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