Tulsa Today
Written by Patrick B. McGuigan Tuesday, 15 May 2012 08:03
In March, leaders of a group of 31 conservative Republican legislators – each of them an advocate of lower and eventually phased out income taxes – laid out their assumptions about tax cuts and government spending.
The group operated (and presumably still operates) from certain assumptions about economic behavior, government revenue and the possibility, as one leader put it that day, of taking Oklahoma from “good to great” in terms of appeal to taxpayers here – and elsewhere in America.
Written by Capitol Editor Patrick B McGuigan Sunday, 13 May 2012 07:56
A Tulsa woman worried about what she considers inadequate government spending on education has gone from concern to activism in the space of a few weeks. She is now leading an effort to educate “moms like me” on how to press for increased education spending in ways that are effective and respectful.
Marlow Sipes was at the state Capitol this past week, visiting legislators and participating in a rally of several dozen like-minded people. That event drew roughly 40 fellow Tulsans, and a similar number from elsewhere around the state.
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