Sales tax renewal discussion revives old debate

Posted by John Small | Jan 16, 2019 | Main News

A vote to call an election to renew Johnston County’s existing one-cent sales tax was tabled this week after the two newest members of the Johnston County Board of Commissioners stated that they wanted to better educate themselves regarding long-simmering frustrations over emergency service funding. During their regular meeting Monday morning, commissioners Jacky Hallmark, Mike […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Sales tax renewal discussion revives old debate

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