Alec Baldwin Says Arts Funding Helping Oklahoma Despite Sen. Coburn’s Opposition
Actor Alec Baldwin spoke at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday about arts funding in the United States, arguing that the country does not spend enough. He listed some of the Capitol Hill friends and foes of government funding for the arts and mentioned Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, as one who is “not as wonderful as we would like him to be on the issue of the arts.”
Baldwin then read some of the funding received last year …
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C-SPAN in Oklahoma City This Week for Some Local History
The public affairs channel C-SPAN, which provides gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congress along with a broad array of government- and history-related programming, is in Oklahoma City this week preparing some features on the city’s history and literary life.
The producers and organizers have an interesting agenda for the productions, which will air during a special Oklahoma City feature weekend of May 5th and 6th on C-SPAN2’s BookTV and C-SPAN3’s American History TV.
Here are some of the highlights, provided by C-SPAN:…
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Oklahoma’s Super Tuesday Results on State Election Board Web Site
The Oklahoma State Election Board has a much-improved format for election results and you can see the results from Tuesday here. It is easy now to find county numbers and the vote is broken out by congressional district as well, which is important for the presidential primaries because some delegates are allotted by those districts. There are new viewing options, such as multi-county results. Hats off to State Election Board secretary Paul Ziriax for the expanded format.…
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Washington Post Looks at Washington, Oklahoma
In a front page story on Friday, a Washington Post reporter gives his view of life in Washington, Oklahoma as Super Tuesday nears.…
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Gingrich Adds More Oklahoma Supporters
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich announced more Oklahoma endorsements on Wednesday. Here are the names announced by his campaign less than a week before Oklahoma voters go to the polls as part of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.
Republican Majority Leader Tad Jones (Claremore)
State Representative Todd Thompson (Ada)
State Representative Mike Jackson (Enid)
Former State Representative Robert Worthen (Oklahoma City)
State Senator Rob Johnson (Yukon)
Former Cleveland County Republican Party Chairman Aaron Curry
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Lawmakers Want More Info on Lesser Prairie Chicken Listing
Led by Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, members of Congress from Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas are asking U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for more information about how the Lesser Prairie Chicken became the focus of possible federal protection.
Lawmakers from the states sent a letter on Monday requesting that Salazar explain why the bird’s priority number underwent a “dramatic shift,” going from 8, which is low, to 2, in December 2008. That was in the last few weeks …
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Santorum rally site changed
The site for the rally for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has changed.
It will be at the Magnuson Hotel and Meridian Convention Center, 737 S. Meridian Ave. It’s just south of Interstate 40.
The venue was changed because of the overwhelming response, according to the Oklahoma Republican Party’s website. It originally was scheduled at the nearby H&H Shooting Sports Complex.
The time remains the same at 9 a.m. There is no charge to attend the rally.
Santorum’s visit today …
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Rep. Tom Cole Praises Selection of House Speaker Designate
U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, praised the selection of state Rep. T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton, as the House speaker designate. If all goes as planned, Shannon would be speaker of the state House of Representatives in early 2013.
Cole and Shannon are both citizens of the Chickasaw Nation. Shannon once served on Cole’s staff.
“I am enormously pleased and proud that the Oklahoma House of Representatives has selected T.W. Shannon as their next Speaker,” Cole said in a prepared statement.
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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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