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.
“As …
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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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Oklahoma state agencies have high turnover after some new elected officials take over
BY PAUL MONIES Database Editor pmonies(at)opubco.com Scores of state employees have left agencies after new leaders took office earlier this year, saving the state some money but at the cost of experience and knowledge in many specialized jobs. Leading the way is the state Education Department, which has seen 61 employees leave since state schools [...]
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Should life without parole still be a sentence for multiple drug convictions?
From today’s story, which is generating a few comments online. I’ve also posted a few related letters to Gov. Mary Fallin at the bottom. One is from the District Attorneys Council. The other is from The Sentencing Project. BY PAUL MONIES Database Editor pmonies(at)opubco.com Published: August 18, 2011 The Pardon and Parole Board recommended [...]
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Correcting the legislative record on the public employee DOB case
First off, let’s get some disclosures out of the way: My birth date is 6/27/75. I’m a board member for FOI Oklahoma Inc. I signed several sworn affidavits in the court case pursued by The Oklahoman and other media outlets on gaining access to the birth dates and employee ID numbers of state employees for [...]
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Oklahoma Supreme Court rules state employee birth dates, employee ID numbers should be confidential
In a case that stretched almost 18 months, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled today in favor of several state employee groups on the birth date issue. For background stories by The Oklahoman, check our continuing coverage page. Also, I blogged about this issue at the end of last year. We’ll have more on this, but [...]
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Some Oklahoma ex-officials making six-figure pensions
Re-posting Sunday’s story: BY PAUL MONIES Database Editor pmonies(at)opubco.com More than 60 state retirees, including former statewide elected officials, district attorneys and judges, are receiving annual pensions of more than $100,000. In many cases, those annual pensions exceed the retiree’s highest annual salary and dwarf the amount the retiree contributed during his or her years [...]
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The case of the missing Oklahoma plutonium
You can file this as Exhibit A in how not to test your website. I stumbled across this while searching for state contracting regulations at the Oklahoma Department of Central Service’s website. (Click the image for a larger version.) Wow. The state’s buying depleted plutonium. Sounds like a great story, right? Well, after clicking on [...]
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