An embattled cigarette tax proposed as a health care funding measure would damage convenience store businesses statewide, said an industry spokesman — but at least one major Oklahoma Indian tribe disagrees.
We talk about the recent grand jury report over the botched Clayton Lockett execution, as well as recent controversial Oklahoma legislation.
Oklahoma’s secrecy law created an air of ‘paranoia’ that clouded state officials’ judgment, leading to use of the wrong drug in one execution and near use in another, a grand jury report indicates.
“Google it.” That was the advice of Gov. Mary Fallin’s former general counsel to the Oklahoma’s Attorney General’s office last year about whether one fatal drug could be legally substituted for another, hours before an execution.
As the law exists now, a county sheriff can hire anyone he or she may want to appraise foreclosed properties. Former Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz was widely criticized when it was revealed the majority of his 11 appraisers were not licensed in any capacity, and all had donated to his prior campaigns for sheriff.
A large portion of the Vision Tulsa funding won’t get scrutiny from the city’s Sales Tax Oversight Committee. But city officials say that’s not a problem.
Jose Vega has been harassed because of his ethnicity and sexual orientation before, but Sunday morning left him shaken.
Due to the timing of the upcoming court date, it’s likely a Vision Tulsa re-vote — if needed — would not take place until the November election.
