The Tulsa Beacon along with the City of Tulsa and Tulsa County offices will be closed on Good Friday. The Tulsa trash and recycling will still be collected. Broken Arrow city offices are also closed Early voting begins April 2nd on School Board and Municipal elections, and City and School Bond issues Early voting begins…
Members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives have voted to lock in Oklahoma’s participation in a federal tax-credit program that supports private-school scholarships for state children. Among other things, the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act provided for an individual, dollar-for-dollar tax credit of up to $1,700 per individual taxpayer for contributions to state-approved, federally…
Temporary Sales tax increases, like the one proposed on Proposition 8 in Broken Arrow are rarely temporary. Proposition 8 calls for a 0.5 % sales tax increase for 5 years with the expenditure of $46,555,000 to improve sports facilities. Tulsans are aware of this problem. In 2001 a Temporary Sales Tax vote was held in…
The Tulsa Public Schools 2026 5 year Bond Package for $609 million will be voted on April 7th. The law requires a school bond to pass by 60 percent. There will be four different propositions to vote on and the projects they support are listed below with each box for a separate proposition as listed…
Currently, Oklahoma has one of the nation’s shortest school years and some of the nation’s worst academic outcomes. House lawmakers have now voted to increase the length of the school year, hoping additional instructional time will boost student learning as well. Currently, Oklahoma mandates only 166 days of school each year, so long as school…
District 4 Republican E’Lena Ashley will square off with Democrat Connie Dodson in the Tulsa Public School Board of Education District 4 race on April 7, 2026. Ashley is the incumbent and has been on the Board since May of 2022. She has been a consistent outspoken conservative voice throughout that time. After asking the…
Legislation that increases state regulation of sexually graphic materials in school libraries has easily advanced from the Oklahoma House of Representatives, overcoming the opposition of liberal lawmakers who dismissed concerns about those materials. House Bill 2978, by state Rep. Chris Banning, prohibits school libraries from offering books to students that include depictions or descriptions of…
A socialist organization is among the entities promoting State Question 832, which would mandate rapid increases in Oklahoma’s minimum wage based on the cost of living in places like New York City and San Francisco. State Question 832 would require continual increases in Oklahoma’s minimum wage based on increases in the cost of living in…
OKLAHOMA CITY – the House passed two bills ensuring taxpayer-funded assistance programs are reserved for those who are lawfully present in the United States. The measures advance the state’s commitment to Safeguarding Eligibility, Compliance and Use of Resources Efficiently (SECURE) when administering state and federal assistance. “Oklahoma taxpayers should never be forced to subsidize benefits…
OKLAHOMA CITY – The House Education Oversight Committee passed a pair of higher education reforms in House Bill 3700 would require state colleges and universities to implement a policy requiring students’ grades to be based only on academic performance, including attendance, and not on a student’s opinions, beliefs or conduct unrelated to academic situations. Caldwell…