by Byron Schlomach | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
Governor Stitt has declared that some businesses can open on Friday. By May 1, all enterprises in the state will be able to operate more or less normally. Eventually, at some unspecified date, Oklahoma will be fully operating again. But the question remains, and must...
by Byron Schlomach | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
More people will die as a result of COVID-19 because we closed the schools than would have if we’d kept the schools open or if we’d brought the kids back to school in summer. That is part of the message from Knut M. Wittkowski, who headed the Department of...
by Byron Schlomach | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
At the time of this writing, Governor Stitt remains in a budgetary impasse with the legislature over completing the current fiscal year, which ends in June. By the time this is posted, in all likelihood, he’ll have signed the spending bills that access the rainy day...
by Byron Schlomach | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
There is no way the 180-day (or 1,080 hours) school year can be completed by the end of previously established school calendars for this year given the fact that spring break has now already been effectively extended an additional two weeks. One option would have been...
by Byron Schlomach | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog
Could the economic shutdown cure for coronavirus be worse than the disease? It appears more likely every day. As an undergraduate at Texas A&M, I was required to read an essay by Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome and a bona fide genius. I recall...
