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Oklahoma FY17 budget agreement announced

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman, and House Speaker Jeff Hickman have announced a budget agreement. Under the plan, total appropriations for the 2016-2017 fiscal year (FY17) will be $6,778,186,009, down about 1% from the revised FY16 appropriation of $6,845,994,842, and down about 5% from the...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 24, 2016 5:37 PM

Cowboy poets, public radio, and unfunded pensions

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is upset about the Republican House budget plan, which would eliminate federal funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering every January in Elko, Nevada. "The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 ... eliminates the National Endowment of the...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 9, 2011 1:11 AM