Quote of the Day | June 14, 2019

“During the last boom, we undercut the state’s most important general tax, the personal income tax, under the false premise that a series of tiny cuts there would lead to prosperity. It didn’t, and in the following bust, we had no petroleum revenue and insufficient income tax revenue to do the things the government is supposed to do. We all remember what followed.”

–Tulsa World Editorial Editor Wayne Greene

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Quote of the Day | June 14, 2018

“You (Mayor Bynum) made it your charge as mayor of this city that you would seek justice for my family and community, that what happened to my son would never happen again on your watch. We believe that tragedies like this will continue to happen if you don’t make some major changes.”

-Rev. Joey Crutcher, the father of Terence Crutcher who was fatally shot by a Tulsa police officer in 2016, speaking to the Tulsa City Council. A coalition of community leaders and activists have outlined requested reforms to the city’s police training and practices [Tulsa World].

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