Despite State Disasters, Coburn and Inhofe Oppose FEMA Aid Bill
The Center for Public Integrity has a new report showing Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, and Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, were among those lawmakers opposing disaster relief unless the costs were offset with cuts elsewhere in the budget.…
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California Senator Wears Sooners Jersey to Thank Inhofe
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, thanked Sen. Jim Inhofe, of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the panel Wednesday for his work on a highway funding bill by wearing a University of Oklahoma Sooners football jersey to a committee hearing.
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Governors make bet on OU-Florida State game
Gov. Mary Fallin hopes she will soon be eating Florida’s official state pie.
The governors of Florida and Oklahoma are wagering a pie over Saturday’s University of Oklahoma-Florida State University football game.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Fallin made the friendly wager over Twitter and Facebook.
If the Sooners win, Scott will be sending a Florida-made Key lime pie to Fallin while if the Seminoles come on out on top Fallin will send a Field’s pecan pie, which is made …
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Insurance company’s expansion helped by a unique arrangement of tax credits and job creation rebates
Re-posting today’s story from the Business section: BY PAUL MONIES Database Editor pmonies(at)opubco.com Published: September 13, 2011 One of the state’s largest insurance companies has taken about $20 million in job creation rebates and tax credits in two separate economic development programs using a possible loophole in the law, The Oklahoman has learned. Farmers Insurance [...]
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Quality Jobs payments totaled $61.7 million in FY 2011, according to Tax Commission
The Legislature’s Task Force on Tax Credits and Economic Incentives is holding another session today. This morning, it studied the Investment/New Jobs tax credit. This afternoon, it’s Quality Jobs. Here’s some updated Quality Jobs totals through the 2011 fiscal year, via the Oklahoma Tax Commission: Also, I pulled the company totals from FY 2007 [...]
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