Advanced Search Close Search
Commentary

Oklahoma offers property tax breaks to businesses. Now lawmakers want to change the rules

  • Janelle Stecklein

Imagine ordering the most expensive cut of steak at a restaurant and telling the waitress that you’ll pay. But when she brings the bill, you balk over the price and attempt to negotiate it. It sounds completely ridiculous doesn’t it? Yet that’s exactly what lawmakers are attempting to do with State Question 844, and they […]

States Newsroom

Oklahoma school leaders, state lawmakers at odds over State Question 844

  • Nuria Martinez-Keel

OKLAHOMA CITY — A nonpartisan state question appearing on Aug. 25 runoff ballots, which has vocal support from the state Capitol, has raised concerns that it could come at a cost to public schools. State Question 844 would give the Oklahoma Legislature the authority to recalculate how much it should pay to local government entities, […]