by Byron Schlomach | Jan 3, 2022 | Blog
I came here almost 7 years ago, driving in on I-40 from Arizona in my 1965 vintage motorhome. It was quite the adventure to be here when the long drought was broken. Having grown up near Wichita Falls, Texas, I’d heard tornado sirens before, but after living in...
by Byron Schlomach | Dec 27, 2021 | Blog
Throughout decades of advocacy for school choice, a major impediment has been rural legislators. Republicans and Democrats alike, they are led to believe by the superintendents of rural school districts that school choice will financially destroy, or otherwise somehow...
by Byron Schlomach | Dec 23, 2021 | Blog
Vice President Kamala Harris was recently asked by the host of “Tha God’s Honest Truth” (not surprisingly for Comedy Central, a blasphemous show name since the host often deals in falsehood) who the president was, Joe Biden or Joe Manchin. Obviously, our current...
by Mike Davis | Dec 20, 2021 | Blog
Recently there have been calls in conservative quarters to move away from a commitment to originalism in constitutional interpretation. Often these missives do not call for a total abandonment of originalism, merely for relegating it to one tool of many. Whether these...
by Brad Galbraith | Dec 16, 2021 | Research
Oklahoma’s Roads Compared to Other States:Road Performance Data Authors Brad Galbraith and Byron Schlomach Abstract This paper looks at statistics regarding Oklahoma’s road network, ranking them in comparison to the other 50 states. It finds Oklahoma spends...
by Tyler Williamson | Dec 15, 2021 | Blog
Last week, the Oklahoman published an article discussing Governor Stitt’s increased use of a business incentive called the Quick Action Closing Fund. A recent 1889 blog addressed some of the fiscal pitfalls of the program (and other corporate welfare schemes like it),...
by Brad Galbraith | Dec 13, 2021 | Blog
Reflecting on one semester in Oklahoma’s traditional public school system, with two kids in the same grade but different teachers, I can definitively say it’s been a mixed bag. Our experience has been tolerable for one child and completely unacceptable for the other....
by Byron Schlomach | Dec 8, 2021 | Blog
Although Governor Stitt is politically conservative and has done a pretty good job so far of controlling the temptation to spend more money at the state level, there is one area where he appears to wish to considerably increase spending. The Governor is a staunch...
by Mike Davis | Dec 6, 2021 | Blog
Being an attorney, even one who doesn’t actively practice, requires thick skin. It’s best to embrace the litany of lawyer jokes, like this one. Why don’t sharks eat lawyers? Professional courtesy. The jokes may be innocuous, but they come from an authentic...
by Tyler Williamson | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog
On Monday, Merriam Webster chose “vaccine” as their word of the year for 2021. According to their website, the word of the year is determined by what words are searched on the Merriam Webster online dictionary, but also on the “words that are significant for that...
