Governor Mary Fallin with legislators and teachers, signs the largest teacher pay raise in state history.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin, flanked by bipartisan legislators and joined by public school teachers, Thursday evening signed three bills that are part of an historic revenue package to fund pay raises for teachers.
The package allows for a $6,100.00 or 16 percent, pay raise on average for Oklahoma teachers. Continue reading
An Oklahoma tax package passed last evening to fund a $6,100 (16%) pay raise on average for Oklahoma teachers. The increase moves Oklahoma from seventh to second highest in the region in average teacher pay. It’s the largest teacher pay raise in the history of the state.
A taxpayer group has already formed to fight it. Continue reading
As Tulsa Today readers know, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter led a coalition of thirteen states in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, requesting the agency reinstate a question on the 2020 Census regarding citizenship.
Once the decision to include the question was made by Federal officials the terrorist defending organization CAIR and other open border advocates of the Democrat Party have squealed like piglets pulled from momma’s milk. Continue reading
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt .
Michael Bastasch in an exclusive interview documents important changes at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase transparency. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will soon end his agency’s use of “secret science” to craft regulations.
“We need to make sure their data and methodology are published as part of the record,” Pruitt said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Otherwise, it’s not transparent. It’s not objectively measured, and that’s important.” Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg gazes in awe at Barack Obama.
Facebook representatives told Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign that they had been allowed to use the platform in ways that would have otherwise been prohibited, because Facebook was “on our side,” according to explosive claims from Obama’s former director for media analytics, Carol Davidsen.
In a tweet storm, Davidsen wrote that Facebook was “surprised” the Obama campaign was able to “suck out the entire social graph” (an individual’s network of friends on Facebook), but did nothing to stop them once they found out. Continue reading
