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‘Duct tape’ Economic Development

Business incentives are to state economic growth what baling wire and duct tape are to home repair. Both are less-than-ideal attempts to provide a temporary solution to longer-term problems.

Little Known Facts about Sunscreen

Various ingredients in many popular sunscreen can enter the bloodstream after just one day of use, according to a recent study published in the medical journal JAMA.

Review Shows Little Benefit From Tset Spending

In 2000, Oklahomans approved a constitutional amendment directing that the state’s annual payments from tobacco companies, reached as part of a 1998 Master Settlement Agreem ent, be deposited into a trust from which investment earnings would be spent on smoking cessation and other health-related...

Strategies to Protect Mental Health

When attempting to improve long-term health, it’s important that people emphasize mental health as much as they do their physical health. In regard to mental health, prevention efforts can function in much the same way that exercise serves physical health.

Many Districts Exempted From Class-Size Limits

This year’s state appropriation for public schools hit a level that triggered enforcement of class-size limits in Oklahoma law, a fact hailed by many state officials as a major accomplishment of the 2021 legislative session.
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