I thought I was well informed on tax exemption and the laws around it. I know there is the old card and the new card.

Well a woman came in my store today and mentioned she was tax exempt to my cashier.

They waited for me to finish a transaction before I came over to look at it and approve the action but she showed me a picture of the Walmart tax exempt card. I told her I couldn't take that card as it was a Walmart card. I needed the actual Oklahoma tax exempt card in physical form to approve the request.

I know I am right here. Her Walmart card isn't acceptable as a form I can take, but what has me so confused is in my area there are a lot of people who claim tax exempt but don't have physical cards. They have a picture of the card on their phones or a printed photo copy. I usually tell them I can't accept that normally but I will this once and to next time bring the card.

Am I wrong? A photo isn't the same as the card itself and I know people like to be sneaky. I'm also worried my boss is accepting the cards no problem as the Walmart card lady was offended I wouldn't take her taxes and said I must be new.

I'll admit, she caught me off guard with that and I might have seemed a bit rude but when it was made clear to her I'm not new but I'm fact the assistant manager she asked for my boss. She will probably tell him I was rude which if my additude or behavior came off as rude then I can own up for that but I can't really be in trouble for not taking her taxes can I? It's a state law thing more than considering money policy.

https://www.kilgorenewsherald.com/oklahoma-sees-2-9-decline-in-construction-employment-10th-largest-in-the-u-s/article_417978ea-7e75-5d71-9a71-377861579f82.htmlp

Seiling, OK

Hi there, I’m going for a road trip which will pass Oklahoma but have not got much knowledge about it before. I wonder what are worth visiting in Oklahoma and also Oklahoma City? Thanks!

Hey fellow Okies! I just found this really neat website you can post where there is food growing so others can go by and grab some berries off a bush or a fruit from a tree, this is so neat!!! We don’t have a lot of places in our state marked yet, but it could be an incredible resource for the unhoused, or even some of us brokies to get a little free food! Please consider taking a gander and posting a few places near you!

It’s called https://fallingfruit.org/

I plan on using this as a motivation to get better at identifying edible plants!

https://nondoc.com/2024/12/02/roundup-cherokee-tag-deal-pagan-prayer-tulsa-ou-financial-report-jnc-busy/

Hello parents, tis is I, a Highschool student in the glorious shitshow that is the Oklahoma City Public School district, and I wanna be the one to say.. this fucking SUCKS! Like Jesus christ, everything that could suck about the structure of our schools was made possible. Our school administration can’t do or won’t do anything about the rampant drug problem in our bathrooms, students are failing to do basic fucking math despite being in fucking Highschool (which is not an issue on their end).

Don’t even get me started on the fucking drama amongst our teachers, like seriously dude, forcing a teacher to quit their job because they couldn’t do anything about the students ditching in their classroom? Writing them up for “contributing to an unsafe environment?” Despite being told multiple times about the issue? I know the fucking superintendents aren’t blind to these issues either, and Honestly Im getting sick and tired of this shit.

So that is why I am calling on you guys, you see the school districts don’t take us seriously because we are still school students, so why would they? We are BEGGING you guys to start demanding change from these bastards because we are suffering just as bad from their lack of inaction.

I have sent numerous emails to my representatives and government (like I fucking should have) with ZERO response from them. So God please, start fighting for your child’s education quality.

Just moved to Okie and put my old 4runner up for sale. I have a very motivated buyer set to pick it up on Tuesday but he’s asking if I can just sign it and not have it notarized as to avoid excise tax.

Is that normal here? Seems fishy, but then again this is the only state I’ve lived in where titles are notarized at all.

..But, I'll NEVER bet you can guess where I came from! 🤣🔥 #DoubleEntendre

I know, it's a terribly long ways away. My dad is an extreme overplanner and wants to come visit and stay somewhere we can light off shitloads fireworks. I live in Tulsa, so that's obviously not an option. I want it to be legal, obviously, and he is wondering if there's a lake where we could get an airbnb and light fireworks walking distance from there. Doesn't have to be near Tulsa, just looking at options and trying to plan WAY in advance.

Thanks!

Lake Wister

https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/downloads/Rural_Hospitals_at_Risk_of_Closing.pdf

Looking for a quick getaway trip, would like to be out in nature a bit. Wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for parks/campsites with solid cabin options? Thanks!

The following work in progress (just in time for after your celebrations) is from historical discoveries made during debates at r/Oklahoma and includes source links from this sub at the very end. All are welcome to suggest edited text or new paragraph(s) for me to copy-paste into this one for the "BLM of their day" who on this day deserve credit.

For the bright side of humanity in Massachusetts we must begin in the areas west of old Plymouth Plantation, before states or documents outlawing or legalizing anything. Those who moved west from the eastern coastal colonies that went to war against Native Americans, instead had good relations for at least 100 years then Christianization and slave trade moved in. Native Americans in the area apparently made bad land deals by not knowing the value of undeveloped land trades, versus ready to move into. But on the bright side: unlike south west tribes who were all killed or driven into eastern Oklahoma they still had a home in the Western Mass, Berkshires area:

https://theberkshireedge.com/connections-race-relations-then-and-now-how-indian-town-became-stockbridge/

While the Pilgrims were settling, trade winds already blew slave ships north up the east coast from where Columbus brought slavery to South America. After reaching the Northern continent winds blew them back to Europe, then to Africa then back again to South America. It's only expected the slave trade that followed Christopher Columbus would be landing along the coast looking for buyers.

After the slave trade was full operation runaways and abolitionist friends were all along pushing a slave free line further south, and west into the rest of the USA. The Pittsfield​/Berkshire area was where ​slaves ran, were resettled, and to this day were never forcibly relocated. This was one of the destinations for an Underground Railroad where many later enlisted into the Civil War. I'm a little east of there but not Boston. Never knew what was floating into the Boston ports, but after half way east was a place to disappear and white folk along the way helped by directing the​m to the next safe house.

https://theberkshireedge.com/connections-a-look-at-the-berkshires-role-in-the-underground-railroad/

In the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts slavery was ​officially prohibited four years after the Declaration of Independence:​

​The 1780 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, drafted by John Adams, is the world's oldest functioning written constitution. It served as a model for the United States Constitution, which was written in 1787 and became effective in 1789. (The Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution were approved in 1789 and became effective in 1791). In turn, the United States Constitution has, particularly in years since World War II, served as a model for the constitutions of many nations, including Germany, Japan, India and South Africa. The United States Constitution has also influenced international agreements and charters, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Slavery was later easily made officially prohibited. Before then the more eastern part of the state​ it already was, without needing a document. ​The territory in between was under abolitionist control. ​From there came the ​almost all black Civil War ​54'th Infantry Regiment​​.

Oklahoma and other states were instead caught up in the land rush and thriving slave trade in South America moving north. By being east of the starting point for the caravans life went on as usual for black folk in at least the Berkshires. West of there the line was on paper/document pushed south and west, from the slavery free zone. For those who visited it was a model of what the future looked like, a nice place to live. Having an already established area like this made it easy to by example spread outward, without needing anything on paper.

While the Missouri Compromise forbids slavery north of 36’30”, the future Oklahoma panhandle was unincorporated and had no jurisdiction by any lawful authorities. Like its counterpart to the East, Indian Territory, it became a haven for outlaws escaping justice. This helps explain why Oklahoma is not like the (earlier mentioned) Berkshires of Massachusetts into Pennsylvania where Native Americans were treated fairly, got along with settlers who made good neighbors. Settlers bought property at a price the tribes were happy with, and spoke their language instead of try to Christianize them into European language and culture.

In Cub and Boy Scouts we all wanted to be First/Native Americans, for being able to survive in the woods like we were learning how to. Native American names were always used for campsites and other things. I heard people describe a scouting like it was Christian Nationalism, which made no sense to me it was the opposite.

What the Cub and Boy Scouts were doing in Oklahoma could be totally opposite to what I experienced growing up in the 60's and later in the Pittsfield to Wilbraham area. In around my late teens I went swimming in Pittsfield with a friend who knew a lot of others there our age, who seemed to be a mix of all. There are no trails of tears or slave plantations, just Quakers who repented after finding out what the eastern slave traders talked them into buying. They made it seem black Africans were not equals, then found out they were.

The good news is, what is in western Massachusetts into Pennsylvania prevailed, instead of the others that came from the south and east towards Oklahoma. That's where the Declaration of Independence and Massachusetts Constitution were written and became the model for the US Constitution, not the lawless who drove Indigenous Americans off their land and bought as many slaves as they could afford. Can't expect the country of Texas to go slave free, but can run the free state line through around 2/3'rd up they can sell to the slave free who bought it up and they made money, all happy. Then the earlier mentioned line free zone line was officially running parallel right behind a No Man’s Land buffer zone that became Oklahoma's. The whole thing is brilliant, even though it at first makes no sense at all.

The USA was at its embryo stage on the East Coast moving outward to become slave free except where it was too part of culture to that easily change. After friction with the new southern states led to Civil War there was too much non-slavery culture set in, to the north, to win.

There was a step at a time expansion, where at no time the commitment to a slave free nation was abandoned, it just did not expand that far or the forefathers had to take their gains on paper then get busy on the next step, which in turn becomes possible.

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PART 2 UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and well educated servent/assistant and rightful forefather Robert Hemmings and more. For now see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oklahoma/comments/1gt44fe/can_anyone_on_the_side_of_ryan_walters_explain/

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Above assembled from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oklahoma/comments/1gwak0v/comment/lya0mj1/

https://www.reddit.com/r/oklahoma/comments/1gwak0v/comment/ly8m8wh/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsfield/comments/1gx07up/in_oklahoma_making_pittsfield_and_berkshires/

https://www.reddit.com/r/oklahoma/comments/1gumezj/welcome_to_first_americans_museum/

For Radio/Music/Culture:

In the Western Mass and Berkshires area is what can be called Indigi-Patriotism that sowed the seeds of non slavery behind the bad that went west ahead of it, into what was not part of the USA yet. And I hope none mind music links that can look out of place but serve a purpose for cultural exchange towards a new music genre named Indigi-Rock for a "new sound" for Patriotism, maybe even from your local radios. Think music/radio driven 60's Hippy movement but without the tune in drop out, it's discovering history they sure never adequately taught to any of us in school!

For discovering the current sound of the culture of the Berkshires:

94.1 = https://wsbs.com/listen-live/ or https://wsbs.com/app/

95.9 = https://live959.com/listen-live/ or https://live959.com/app/

100.1 = https://wupe.com/listen-live/ or https://wupe.com/app/

With radio stations looking hard for ways to get us to tune in again all useful feedback is very valuable to them. Having Oklamhoma tuning in while posting at Reddit also helps keep them going. And to make sure it was not wasted I made sure the above radio group were alerted as to what was being learned at r/Oklahoma. I do not work for or profit from this it's because I can. You can too by contacting them with your programming suggestions or post below in comments to this topic.

Need suggestions for the quintessential Ok gift for an out of stater. Along the lines of a BBQ rub or distinctive trinket. Thoughts?

So my sister lives in OK, she bought a property with a manufactured home on it. The property is comprised of two lots. She and her husband divorced and she lost one of the lots to a tax sale. FFW to a couple of weeks ago, she received a letter that she placed her home incorrectly and is ineligible for a homestead credit.It mentions after discussing with a neighbor! I pulled up the mapping at the assessor and it has she owns the old lot and the other owner owns hers. The assessor’s office says this is her fault. She has never received any paperwork from them, yet they insist they sent it. They are telling her to draw up a new deed and she and the other lot owner will sign off. The other owner told her to eff off he owns her property. She told him she owns his.She can’t afford an attorney and it seems really shady. Does anyone have any suggestions? Desperately trying to save her home.

While the US Constitution should be enough, it feels like a state question may be one way we can protect our schools from Walters’ idiotic Christian Nationalist policies. Anyone smart enough to make this happen?