Category Archives: Money Matters

House Insurance Committee Kills Consumer Protection Bill

Bill would have required insurance companies to notify customers that their policy does not include earthquake coverage. OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. Mike Shelton said he is disappointed that a House committee voted down a consumer protection measure that would ensure Oklahomans are notified of the need to buy earthquake coverage. “This was a simple

Veterans lobby state legislature for benefit retention

Jeanne Flanigan, an art teacher and advocate for veterans, reports: I went to the State Capitol today, with some of the veterans from the Norman Veterans Center, to lobby for no cuts to veterans’ centers and hospitals in Oklahoma. In recent years their budget has been cut 14%, and it looks bad for this year.

Oklahoma Policy Institute produces animated video on state income tax question

‘The Economy Bowl‘ shows Oklahoma’s many economic advantages with current state tax system vs. Texas plan. To learn more and find out what you can do, go to http://okpolicy.org/files/what-you-can-do.pdf

Oklahoma Observer features injustice of Payday lending racket

Frosty Troy, founder of the Oklahoma Observer, and Arnold Hamilton, its current editor and publisher

‘PayDay MayDay’ is the cover story in the new issue (Feb. 25)  of the Oklahoma Observer. Observer editor Arnold Hamilton wrote the piece. Just before Thanksgiving, about 50 Baptists of varying stripes gathered at a predominantly African-American church in northeast Oklahoma City to learn about an economic plague quietly devastating the state’s teetering middle class

OKC rally to protest Citizens United on decision’s 2nd anniversary

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What better way to use your lunch hour on the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision (in which the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and money is speech) than to rally with others who decry that travesty of justice and call for it to be overturned with a constitutional amendment. WHEN: Friday,

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