Sen. Rob Standridge
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Health and Human Services will begin its examination of possible changes to Medicaid in Oklahoma in a meeting scheduled for Oct. 23.
Requested by Sen. Rob Standridge, the interim study will review reform models implemented by other states to improve medical outcomes and create fiscally sustainable programs for the management of Medicaid.
Analysis: A recent afternoon session at the State Policy Network meeting in Oklahoma City was, for advocates of school choice, a banquet of “red meat” data and analysis. Even for anti-choice analysts, the open session was illuminating.
The most vigorous debate, on the Common Core Standards controversy, was intellectually stimulating, yet perhaps — for all the sound and fury generated — the wrong argument over the wrong issue.
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TULSA: Arvest Bank has announced that customers whose ability to make regular payments as a result of the shutdown on consumer and mortgage loans may be able to temporarily defer those payments.
Mortgage loan customers may be eligible for short-term hardship programs, which include partial or full mortgage payment deferment while off work. The forbearance period will then be followed by other loss mitigation options to assist in making up the deferred payments. Consumer loan customers have deferment options as well.
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray
Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray stepped away from his role as scandal-scarred leader and into the spotlight as agitator in chief against the federal shutdown during a dramatic confrontation on the Capitol steps Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid according to a Washington Post story today.
It was a new public posture for an embattled mayor whose 2010 campaign remains under federal investigation — but who is now fighting to keep the District government in business by exempting it from the ongoing shutdown.
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A future war can begin with an attack by enemy missiles on Israel Defense Force (IDF) General Staff headquarters in Tel Aviv, or a cyber attack on Israel’s traffic light system, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Center’s conference, called Israel’s Perils and Prospects, held at Bar-Ilan University, Gantz began by noting the massive instability rocking the region, which he said “guides us every morning when we in the IDF wake up.”
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