How policy decisions affect Oklahoma’s workforce and economy.
There was healthy debate about the merits of Tulsa County’s Vision2 measure, including discussion about taxpayers’ role in “picking and choosing” corporate winners and losers. But a lot of the reasons cited for the rejection had to do with timing and confusion over the two propositions. “It was too fast,” opponent and anti-Vision2 organizer Ronda [...]
Oklahoma voters approved all six state questions Tuesday, but citizens in Tulsa County turned down both Vision2 propositions. Statewide, voter turnout was high, and all state questions passed with ‘yes’ votes by wide margins. And while polling suggested voters in Tulsa County voters might deliver a split decision on the two-part Vision2 sales tax extension, [...]
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Happy Election Day, Oklahoma! Couple reminders: Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Boundaries were redrawn in 2011, so you should confirm your polling location before you get in line. (Don’t make the same mistake I did!) We’re focusing our election coverage on ballot questions — Check out our 2012 Ballot Question Handbook [...]
Tulsa County voters seem mixed on the two-part Vision2 ballot question, a new poll suggests. Vision2′s quality-of-life Proposition 2 appears to be headed to victory in Tuesday’s election, while the fate of Proposition 1 with its airport industrial complex upgrades and deal-closing fund is uncertain, a new Tulsa World poll shows. The World used SoonerPoll.com [...]
Supporters of Tulsa’s Vision2 tax package have a lot more campaign cash than their opponents. While Vision2 proponents have almost $600,000 on hand, anti-tax package team Citizens for a Better Vision have a war chest with about $11,000 in cash and in-kind donations, reports the Tulsa World‘s Brian Barber, who sifted through campaign finance reports [...]
Theft of crude and oil-field equipment is on the rise in western and central Oklahoma, the Journal Record‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo reports. Such theft is difficult to detect because well sites are concentrated in sparsely populated parts of rural Oklahoma. A multi-county response is being organized with state investigators, county sheriffs and corporate security officials, the [...]
Here’s a letter urging a ‘no’ vote on State Question 766 signed by three library and two school board members in Norman.
While “energy independence” has become a political talking point, the goal of reducing the country’s foreign energy reliance is a big deal in petroleum-rich states like Oklahoma. But if the U.S. achieved energy independence, would ordinary Americans even notice? David Kestenbaum from NPR’s Planet Money team explored one everyday energy issue in Canada, America’s energy [...]
On Nov. 6, Tulsa County voters will go to the polls and decide whether they should extend a sales tax increase. The Vision2 measure is inspired by the success its inner-state rival, Oklahoma City, has had with MAPS, a series of tax increases that paid for public works projects, school improvements and arena upgrades to [...]
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