Some Oklahoma school districts elected to reopen Tuesday despite the ongoing teacher walkout. Others districts planning to reopen Tuesday were forced to cancel classes anyway due to overwhelming teacher absences
Wearing frowns and protest signs around their necks, thousands of teachers from across the state paid their state lawmakers a visit on Monday, sometimes waiting in long lines for just a few minutes of sometimes tense meetings.
As the state struggled with ways to fill a budget hole last year, the oil and gas industry urged Gov. Mary Fallin to keep a gross production tax increase off the legislative agenda, according to emails obtained by The Frontier.
When crude oil prices crashed between 2014 and 2016, many Oklahoma energy companies booked sizable losses that can be used to reduce or completely eliminate state income tax liability for up to 20 years.
The study’s authors included no medical doctors and conducted no actual first-hand research, but Oklahoma based much of its decision to adopt nitrogen as an execution method on its findings.
“We can no longer sit on the sidelines and wait for drugs,” says Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter.
Lamb’s no-tax increase campaign has played well with business leaders, and he’s has received ample support from the energy industry including political action committees backed by some of the state’s largest oil and gas companies.
Oklahoma corrections officials have warned the state’s prison population will grow by 25 percent over the next 10 years, costing the state a projected $2 billion.
