Oklahoma is going backwards

[Stillwater Townie]

Interesting that the far-right Christian think tank, the OCPA, is irritated that OU's financial strategy is to attract more international and out of state freshman students than Oklahomans. OCPA is glad it's not that way at OSU. OCPA also doesn't like it that there are nearly two liberal students for every conservative student on campus at OU but happy that conservative students outnumber liberal ones at OSU.

https://ocpathink.org/post/independ...than-half-of-ou-freshmen-are-oklahomans-again

In another article the OCPA absurdly tries to devalue higher education in Oklahoma. Its return investment to the economy is only a tiny fraction of what is claimed. And worse it quotes from some conservative economist who “suggests that the relationship between state appropriations for higher education and economic growth is actually negative; resources are taken from competitive private enterprise driven by market discipline and given to an inefficient sector sheltered from such discipline.”

https://ocpathink.org/post/analysis/oklahoma-higher-eds-17-48-return-claim-doesnt-compute

 

[PF5]

You live in Oklahoma, do you consider racism alive and well?

If you do then you must consider it alive and well across the nation, maybe even the world.

It was alive and well through the 60's and 70's. Not so much now.

How many turd comments on social media does it take for you to consider it alive and well?

I tend to go with what I see in real life, all around me instead of finding my rage or happiness on the internet.

I just read this, and I know you don´t believe what you wrote! Unless, your ´alive and well´ is different than mine...when I say Alive and Well, I am referring to something that is still around when it should be gone or extremely limited...racism in 2025 is different than it was in the 60´s and 70´s in that people ´try´ to mask it better, but times they are a changin´ and to me there seems to be a slow movement into being a more open racist like I am assuming you are referencing in the 60´s and 70´s...thanks a lot tRump...(JK, or am I?!)

 

[Stillwater Townie]

It's bad. From Garnet to Yale on Admiral is a solid string of the most heartbreaking humanity you can imagine.

Dallas started giving them their choice of a bus ticket to Tulsa or OKC. Most chose Tulsa. If Oklahoma were truly without compassion they'd bus them right back, but at least we're attempting to get them some help.

But this evening I saw FOX 23 Tulsa do an in depth report on homelessness to determine where they came from. It found that 82% of them come from mostly Tulsa and some from elsewhere in Oklahoma such as Tahlequah. It made no determiniation where the remaining 18% came from. So it's a myth that very many of them get bussed in from out of state such as Dallas. Nobody at the Tulsa bus station had heard of such a thing.

The report wondered if the story that the homeless have been getting bussed was inspired from an old 2007 South Park episode.

 

[Rob B.]

But this evening I saw FOX 23 Tulsa do an in depth report on homelessness to determine where they come from. It found that 82% of them come from mostly Tulsa and some from elsewhere in Oklahoma such as Tahlequah. It made no determiniation where the remaining 18% came from. So it's a myth many were bussed in from out of state such as Dallas. The report wondered if the story that homeless have been getting bussed came from an old 2007 South Park episode.

My story came from a TPD officer who was on a homeless task force in 2024...

 

[Stillwater Townie]

My story came from a TPD officer who was on a homeless task force in 2024...

Maybe that is where the 18% came from.

 

[Rob B.]

Maybe that is where the 18% came from.

Maybe, but his polling was closer to 50% from out of state.

 

[PF5]