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Tulsa School Board Office 5: Shane Saunders questionnaire response
Shane Saunders, candidate for Tulsa Public Schools Office 5, responds to the BatesLine questionnaire.
Vision2 imponderables
By the way, I'm speaking at the Tulsa Republican Club luncheon today about Vision2. It's at the Summit Club, 30th floor of the Bank of America Building, 15 W. 16th St. Buffet lunch ($20) served starting at 11:30, program begins at 12 noon. You can join the club for $25...
John Sullivan's rationale for the Boehner Plan, plus Q&A
From an email from Oklahoma 1st District Congressman John Sullivan's office regarding his support for the Boehner Plan for raising the debt ceiling and cutting the growth of federal spending. I've spread it out to the jump page, because it's a very long piece.The Budget Control Act of 2011I said...
To raise Oklahoma per-pupil funding, use school vouchers
Mickey Hepner, Professor of Economics at the University of Central Oklahoma, suggests one way to raise per-pupil school funding, other than raising taxes or cutting non-education spending: Offer vouchers to encourage parents to put their children in private schools. In 2008-2009 Oklahoma education funding averaged $8,006 per student. This figure...
Tulsa blogging roundup
Some notes from around the Tulsa blogosphere: Tulsa City Councilor John Eagleton has updated his website. On his City Council News page, he's posting city government documents. Recent entries include an update on the Public Works contracts put on hold because of Federal bribery indictments and a spreadsheet from the...
"Give us your geniuses, your diligent, your best and brightest, yearning to breathe free."
Phyllis Schlafly's latest column makes the claim that high-tech companies are engaged in a conspiracy against American workers by pushing the Federal government to allow more engineers to come to America under H-1B visas. Like all visas, the H-1B visa is temporary permission to be in the United States, specifically...
Better than a poke in the eye
We've been ringing in the new year watching Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Howard racing through hospital corridors, in the original "Men in Black". There's nothing like the merry cackles of an eight-year-old and a four-year-old, already giddy for being allowed to stay up late, watching classic slapstick. Oh,...
Steyn on those cheap drugs from Canada
I've been wondering when someone would point this out. Mark Steyn does it as an aside in his latest column in the Chicago Sun-Times: Speaking of which, if there's four words I never want to hear again, it's "prescription drugs from Canada." I'm Canadian, so I know a thing or...
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