Back to school was the main topic this morning. Most of the coffee broads are scrambling to break their kid’s summer brain-drain routines, figure out some afterschool options and deal with school bureaucracies on their kid’s learning needs. Everyone agrees that schools are not meeting the needs of kids- or their working parents. They also [...]
Oklahoma’s kids just keep getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Two significant story-lines got lost in the media footlights of this week’s statewide primary elections. The first came from KIDS COUNT, the primary data source published annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in a report ranking Oklahoma 44th in the nati0n concerning the [...]
This past week, the President issued a statement urging Senate passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act. The legislation updates the Equal Pay Act, originally passed in 1963 and would place wage discrimination in the same class as other forms of discrimination. Business leaders argue that the legislation comes during an economic downturn and places a [...]
