by Mike Davis | Apr 27, 2020 | Blog
When businesses reopen, what liability should they face related to the spread of Covid? Can businesses who remained open during the pandemic, or those who were open before the lockdowns began, be held liable if their customers caught the virus within the businesses’...
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 1889 Institute | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog
The author, Kent Grusendorf, served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for 20 years (1987-2007), all but two as a member of Public Education Committee, which he chaired for four years (2003-2007). His prior elected experience was as a member of the...
by 1889 Institute | Apr 22, 2020 | Research
America’s War for Effective Education Reform Author Kent Grusendorf Abstract Kent Grusendorf argues that past reform efforts have not succeeded due to their top-down nature. Instead, what is needed is to take account the efforts of those who are actually doing...
by Benjamin Lepak | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog
According to the most widely cited model projecting the course of the coronavirus outbreak, today is supposed to be Oklahoma’s peak in daily deaths. Now is a good time to go back to the beginning of the Great Coronavirus Shutdown of 2020, review the goal of our...
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 Mike Davis | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog
1889 Institute, as a general matter, objects to occupational licensing. We have written about it more than any other subject. The scant benefits simply do not outweigh the enormous costs to consumers and entrepreneurs, and the burdens that disproportionately impact...
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 Spencer Cadavero | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog
Used car dealers in Oklahoma are governed by the Oklahoma Used Motor Vehicle and Parts Commission (UMPV). Like most licensing boards, it is made up of industry insiders. The UMVP’s stated mission is to protect consumers from harm, but its structure and history...
by Spencer Cadavero | Apr 8, 2020 | Research
Used Car Dealer Licensing in Oklahoma Author Spencer Cadavero Abstract Spencer Cadavero describes used car dealer regulation in Oklahoma and judges licensing the occupation to be unnecessary and burdensome, not just for potential dealers, but also for...
