by Jamison Faught | Jul 5, 2023 | Education, Muskogee Politico, OKGrassroots
This is a week old, but I thought this statement from House Speaker Charles McCall regarding State Auditor Cindy Byrd’s recent audit finding $30,000,000 in questionable pandemic-related grant spending deserved getting posted: OKLAHOMA CITY (June 27th) –...
by Jamison Faught | Jul 5, 2023 | Education, Muskogee Politico, OCPA, OKGrassroots
Back to the ‘70sBy Jonathan SmallThe surge of inflation under President Joe Biden has given many people flashbacks to the 1970s. Sadly, the latest data released by the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) evokes a similar sense of déjà vu.The National...
by Jamison Faught | Jul 3, 2023 | Muskogee Politico, OCPA, OKGrassroots, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ended June (or as I saw one person dub it, "LGBT Ramadan") with a string of major wins for conservatives. Below are press releases from Congressmen Brecheen and Hern, Senator Lankford, Attorney General Gentner Drummond, and OCPA on several...
by Jamison Faught | Jun 29, 2023 | Education, Muskogee Politico, OKGrassroots
Ouch. This audit is pretty bad. State Auditor Cindy Byrd has released an audit of federally-funded grants (mainly COVID relief/stimulus money), finding about $30,000,000 in "questioned costs". This audit is federally-mandated, and could end up with the State...
by Jamison Faught | Jun 27, 2023 | Muskogee Politico, OCPA, OKGrassroots
Time to act on college tuitionBy Jonathan SmallThe story of Oklahoma college tuition usually falls into one of three patterns.Lawmakers cut college appropriations and colleges raise tuition, blaming the lack of appropriations.Or lawmakers provide steady...
