Weekly News Headlines and Commentary – Week of 2.10.25
I sort of fitzed out on the headlines from the week I’m sorry to say, but we’ll cover as many as we can from last week today.
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Oklahoma Taxpayers Get Soaked By Canoo – And Other Taxpayer-Financed Violations Of The Free Market
Lots Of Dark Money and PACs Fueling Barbara Peck’s Ward 3 Oklahoma City Council Campaign
LEGISLATION
Community Schools Are The Marxist Solution For Oklahoma Schools – Vote NO on HB1467 by West
Usurping Local Control – Cell Phone Restrictions In Oklahoma – NO on SB1389 and HB1276
Election Bills To Support And Oppose
PikeOffOTA (aka Citizens for Responsible Transportation) Request Bills For 2025
Oklahoma Legislation Affecting Homeschool Or Education Autonomy To Support Or Oppose
OKLAHOMA SUBSTACK AUTHORS
Jason Murphy – Oklahoma State Capitol
OK House Reps Sterling & Lowe (both R) Push to UNPROTECT Students from Ed Predators
‘Mary’ – V1SUT Vantage; FILE THIS UNDER BAD!
‘Mary’ – V1SUT Vantage
Marven Goodman – The Sooner Sentinel
Marven Goodman – The Sooner Sentinel
LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEDIA
War on Farmers & Your Health: How to Fight Back
Alex Newman – The Liberty Sentinel
Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution – one of our own Oklahoma independent film makers and homeschoolers answering the questions, “Why do homeschoolers need a tax break” (short answer – they don’t and neither does anyone else).
Oklahoma Republicans Are Helping Green Energy Cronies Scam Taxpayers Out Of Billions
Jenni White – The Federalist; our legislature and our governor is killing us with tax incentives.
Oklahoma legislative leaders hesitant to cut income tax
The Oklahoma Voice – Our legislators want us to believe we can’t afford a tax cut. Meanwhile, the biggest proponent of paying people to bring their businesses to the state – our Governor Kevin Stitt – is saying he’s going to open an Oklahoma DOGE office inside of OMES – the place where Oklahoma taxpayer dollars go to be redistributed. Truly, so many of our legislature has no idea why they’re there. They think it’s to ‘make laws’, or ‘help bring business’ to the state, but very few seem to understand that GIVING AWAY THE GAINS OF THE INDUSTRY OF OKLAHOMANS ISN’T IT!
Governor’s Oklahoma budget calls for $1.4 billion less spending, removal of education funding cap
The Oklahoma Voice – So we’re going to cut spending while increasing the cap on the ‘school choice’ tax credit. So, again, we’re going to be funding TWO KINDS OF EDUCATION IN OKLAHOMA – PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WITH TAX DOLLARS. I suggest you watch one of our podcasts on the ‘tax credit’ to get a better idea of what a bad idea this is.
Could ‘School Choice’ End School Choice?
Alex Newman – Liberty Sentinel – This is one you should probably read after you watch the video and think about what it means for the Governor to want to reduce taxes while increasing the cap on a tax incentive program…
Nation’s Report Card shows Oklahoma academic results are stagnant
The Oklahoma Voice – So, we’re going to increase teacher salaries. Look, I know there are some good teachers out there, but they should be paid by THEIR SCHOOL BOARD! If a teacher is doing great, the school board should vote to give them a raise!!! Yet very few that I’ve ever heard of do that! Instead, we’ll allow the legislature to create a BLANKET RAISE FOR EVERYONE EVEN THOUGH WE’RE 49TH IN EDUCATION AND HAVEN’T IMPROVED SINCE COVID! Please don’t re-elect the people who work at Lincoln and 23rd who vote for this nonsense.
The Garfield County Conservation Coalition – this is the group that’s fighting a huge solar installation north of Enid. They have a point. Governor Stitt should stand with Trump as a Republican and QUIT SHOVING THE GREEN AGENDA DOWN OUR THROATS.
Trump’s Education Department Ends Biden’s Harmful Title IX Social Experiment On Children
The Federalist – I would say that maybe this would end the fights between parents and administration over things like boys in girl’s bathrooms, but since so many schools are staffed with progressive ideologues today, the chances of this kind of thing will probably not go down as much as we’d like. Still and all, don’t let schools push you around parents! Trump has wiped out of existence all the progressive BS.