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State Question 801: Giving local school districts flexibility in use of bond funds

State Question 801, proposed by the state legislature, would add 14 words and delete one word from Article 10, Section 10, of the Oklahoma Constitution. Those few words open up a world of flexibility for taxpayers in local school districts to direct their property taxes where most needed. Currently, while...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 3, 2018 2:29 AM

Oklahoma State Question 800: Creating the Oklahoma <s>Slush</s> Vision Fund

Oklahoma State Question 800 would add a new section to Article 10 of the Oklahoma Constitution. It would siphon off part of the gross production tax into a fund that the State Treasurer could invest in private businesses. I'm voting NO, AGAINST SQ 800. Here is the new section that...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 30, 2018 3:52 PM

Streets, state questions, judges

All you folks who have been asking me about the state questions and the judicial retention ballot -- here you go. My extra piece in this week's Urban Tulsa Weekly is about Oklahoma's four state questions and retention votes for some of our supreme court and appeals court judges. In...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 30, 2008 12:02 AM