How are your taxes spent?
Source: Michael McNutt, NewsOK.com, December 17, 2007 Looking up state expenses soon will be as simple as clicking onto the Internet. The Office of State Finance is in the final stages of developing a...
View ArticleIn get-tough stance, DOC withholds prison payments
Source: By TOM LINDLEY, Tulsa World (OK), 12/16/2008 OKLAHOMA CITY — Taking a tougher approach, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections has withheld more than $589,000 in payments to private prison...
View ArticleWastewater proposal not sitting well with some
Source: Cathy Spaulding, Muskogee Phoenix, February 12, 2011 A proposal to see if qualified private firms could manage Muskogee’s wastewater treatment plant is not sitting well with some City Council...
View ArticleTulsa City Hall puts building maintenance out for bid; city workers among...
Source: Brian Barber, Tulsa World, April 3, 2011 The city will begin advertising for bids this week for building maintenance at City Hall – and among those who will compete are the city employees who...
View ArticleEmployees for city win first contract for bid work
Source: Brain Barber, Tulsa World, June 3, 2011 City employees won the contract for City Hall’s maintenance – both keeping the work in house and saving $115,818 annually, Mayor Dewey Bartlett announced...
View ArticleOklahoma lottery should be privatized, Senate panel told
Source: Barbara Hoberock, Tulsa World, November 2, 2011 Lawmakers must decide whether the government should be in the business of running a lottery, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. The Senate Finance...
View ArticleOklahoma should sell some buildings to fund Capitol repairs, lawmaker says
Source: Michael McNutt, The Oklahoman, November 14, 2011 Oklahoma should sell some buildings to fund Capitol repairs, lawmaker says A report shows the state owns about 9,000 buildings on approximately...
View ArticleCommissioners to consider suing DOC
Source: Brittany Snapp, Durant Daily Democrat, November 7, 2011 The Bryan County Commissioners have been in a battle with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) over the county housing DOC...
View ArticleA smart ALEC threatens public education
Source: Julie Underwood and Julie F. Mead, Phi Delta Kappan Magazine, V93 N6, March 2012 Coordinated efforts to introduce model legislation aimed at defunding and dismantling public schools is the...
View ArticleTulsa city workers win fight vs. privatization with creative strategy
Source: J. Shepherd, People’s World, February 23, 2012 The unionized Tulsa municipal workers of AFSCME Local 1180 chose to fight back against privatization by taking over their department in a very...
View ArticleConsolidating technology saves Oklahoma $40 million in two years
Source: Megan Rolland, NewsOK.com, March 4, 2012 Oklahoma is undergoing a massive consolidation of the technology departments housed in almost 130 different state agencies. Two years into the project...
View ArticleOklahoma issues RFP for IT consolidation
Source: GovPro, June 1, 2012 To help reduce costs and increase efficiencies in its technology infrastructure, the Oklahoma Information Services Division of the Office of State Finance (OSF) is...
View ArticleThe Public Costs of a Private Prison Riot in Oklahoma
Source: Logan Layden, NPR, StateImpact Oklahoma, July 26, 2012 Related: Sayre prison riot yields 2,700-page report; charges are likely coming Source: Andrew Knittle, The Oklahoman, May 4, 2012 Inmates...
View ArticleMAXIMUS Awarded $23.5 Million Customer Relationship Management Contract for...
Source: BusinessWire, September 27, 2012 MAXIMUS (NYS: MMS) , a leading provider of government services worldwide, announced that it has signed a new contract with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority...
View ArticleOklahoma Department of Corrections wants private prison companies to share...
Source: Andrew Knittle, newsok.com, December 10, 2012 The actions of a private prison company that took months to turn over investigative materials to local agencies after a 2011 riot at the North Fork...
View ArticleThe Charity Offering
Source: Melanie Evans, Modern Healthcare, Vol. 43 no. 7, February 16, 2013 (subscription required) Despite disparity in margins, rich and poor hospitals offer similar levels of subsidized care… Both [...
View ArticleOkla. Senate votes to privatize CompSource agency
Source: Associated Press, March 12, 2013 The Oklahoma Senate has approved legislation to privatize the state’s nonprofit workers’ compensation agency. … CompSource was created by the Legislature in...
View ArticleMore States Consider ‘Parent Trigger’ Laws
Source: Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, Published Online: March 21, 2013 The push for the “parent trigger” option for turning around struggling schools continues, with new laws under consideration in...
View ArticleWhen Billionaires Become Educational Experts
Source: Kevin K. Kumashiro, Academe, May-June 2012 “Venture philanthropists” push for the privatization of public education….Current reforms are allowing certain individuals with neither scholarly nor...
View ArticleStudents and professors met to discuss the possibility of OU becoming privatized
Source: Nadia Enchassi, Oklahoma Daily, March 28, 2013 The possibility of OU becoming a private institution brought nearly 25 students and professors to a meeting on Thursday to discuss the issue....
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