Well stated, and spot-on. I’ve lived in Edmond for 35 years. Great town with excellent police and infrastructure. The muslims and associated goobers are closely supervised. The schools are reportedly the best in the state, or so the town fathers claim. The dumbass apartment dwellers that moved here for the schools, (don’t pay property taxes) repeatedly vote for property tax increases for school “Improvements”. The last fiasco concerned a bond issue to construct a football stadium with digital scoreboards at each of the three high schools....but the roads in Edmond are terrible....misplaced priorities.
Mary Fallin is an excellent Governor...it’s the worthless state legislators that need to pay attention. Until they get their priorities straight, the “Crossroads of America” will be strewn with potholes.
” The dumbass apartment dwellers that moved here for the schools, (don’t pay property taxes)”
Not true. ALL property owners pay property taxes. Rent moneys charged to renters include these taxes.
Gotta have sports. Gotta have football. Those are the priorities.
High school football and being a pom pom girl are the high points of some people’s lives.
The apartment owners pay taxes but just pass them on when they don’t get a sweetheart deal. Equalization in our county is a joke. It appears to depend more on who you are than what your house is worth. I’ve seen 3500 square foot houses appraised for less than a double wide.
I disagree on Fallin. She is firmly in the pocket of what big business there is here in the state. Oklahoma, up until last week, persistently had one of the lowest oil and gas severance taxes in the oil producing states. I’d truly like to know three significant and good things Fallin has done since being guv.
We lived in Edmond 30 years ago. It was a nice town once. Small enough that the city workers would build huge piles of leaves in the city park across from the old rock grade school and let the kids play in them at recess.