Oklahoma State Football
President Meets with University of Oklahoma Football and Softball Teams
And to the footballteam. Congratulations, coach, I know you're proud of thesepeople. We share a lot in common -- we both started ourrespective campaigns as underdogs. (Laughter.) Weboth won our championships in the state ofFlorida. (Laughter and applause.) There's a bigdifference though: it took you all 60 minutes -- (laughter)-- it took me 36 days. (Laughter.) ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State University Homecoming
Homecoming is one of Oklahoma State University's great traditions, and each year thousands of alumni from around the world return to their alma mater in Stillwater to renew friendships, remember their special experience and reconnect to Oklahoma state. It is one of the largest traditional university homecoming celebrations in the country. Festivities include a Friday evening "walkaround" for visitors to view large, elaborate public displays called "house decorations," a Saturday morning parade down Main Street with floats, bands, horses, and politicians, and the homecoming football game and related events. ... [Read More]
Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust
Don Cooper, M.D., appointed by the Governor , is Emeritus Director of the Oklahoma State University Student Health Center. With over thirty years experience in sports medicine, Dr. Cooper is known throughout the state as the "Jock Doc". He was an active member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Presidents Regan and Bush, a U.S. Olympic team physician for the XIX Olympiad, and a sports medicine consultant to the NCAA Football Rules Committee. Dr. Cooper has served on numerous state and national boards and committees, testified before Congress, appeared on national television shows, and studied and lectured on sports medicine in China and the Soviet Union. In November 1999, Dr. Cooper was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and was featured in the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association as a "Leader in Medicine". ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State Senate Artwork Artist - Mike Wimmer
Mike Wimmer grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma, a town immortalized by Merle Haggard, where one had to learn to use his imagination to find fun. "The one thing I wanted to be more than an illustrator," he says, "was a middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears. As a high school football star, I was honored with many team awards and made the all-state football team. I thought I had it made, but while playing in the all-state game I learned what really big was (I was 205 pounds of raw muscle). I could not see over those guys when they were bent over. One, Paul Parker, weighted in at 302. So I turned my attention to art studies and body-building." ... [Read More]
In Focus: Oklahoma's Anita May
With Oklahoma's centennial approaching in 2007, May has been busy with "OK Reads OK," a program encouraging Oklahomans to read about their heritage. For the last three years, the council has chosen a "literary six-pack," three works of fiction and three of nonfiction about the Sooner State, and asked Oklahomans to vote online for their favorite. The winning book is then read and discussed by scholars and the author in libraries across the state. "This year we had six thousand votes," May says. "And next year I'm hoping for sixty thousand." ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State Senate - February Press Releases
Senator Hobson's Comments on Gov. Henry's Second State of the State Message ... Senate GOP Leader Responds to State of State Address ... Senate Honors Sooner Football Star ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State Senat "Week In Review" for March 12-15, 2001
Governor Frank Keating ordered the Office of State Finance to advance the Oklahoma Health Care authority $11.1 million to head of a funding disaster. This after a supplemental appropriations bill failed to get the votes necessary to make funds for OHCA and other state entities available immediately. However Senate President Pro Tem Stratton Taylor said OHCA confirmed the action would do nothing to address the current financial crisis because state law prevents the agency from overspending its budget regardless of a funding advance. ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State Senate "Week In Review" for May 24 - May 28, 2004
• In the State of the State address Governor Brad Henry outlined his goals to enhance Oklahoma’s education system as well as continue efforts to drive positive economic growth. Another key factor in his speech was the issue of family and the Governor urged both sides of the aisle to put aside their differences and work together to achieve the major issues facing Oklahoma families. Governor Henry began his speech by outlining the bipartisan efforts of the last legislative session. Citing an increase in revenues for education, higher teacher pay, significant tax release and a package of healthcare initiatives that needed bipartisan support in order to gain approval. Some of the Governor’s recommendations for the upcoming session are as follows: ... [Read More]
Oklahoma Senate Press Release - March 10, 1998
"In football terms, it's like recruiting more defensive players for your top ranked defense when your offense is the worst in the country. You'll never be a top ten team if you don't try to shore up your weaknesses. We'll never be a top 10 state if Governor Keating continues to whack away at education." ... According to NCSL, Oklahoma ranked 42nd in per capita state and local tax burden and 37th in taxes as a percent of personal income. Using the more current data, the Tax Foundation, a conservative research group, ranked Oklahoma 45th in per capita taxes and 41st in taxes per $1,000 of personal income. ... [Read More]
Oklahoma State Senate - February Press Releases
Portrait of Historical Folksinger Woody Guthrie Dedicated at the State Capitol ... Hobson Challenges Republicans to Stop Using Health Care as Political Football ... Portrait of Nationally Acclaimed Folk Singer To Be Dedicated At State Capitol ... [Read More]
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