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2021 School & Municipal General Election: BatesLine ballot card

Below are my thoughts on some of the races in the Oklahoma school board and municipal general election on April 6, 2021, along with links to candidate websites, social media profiles, and candidate forums for elections and bond issues on Tuesday's ballot in Tulsa County.

Posted by Michael Bates on April 6, 2021 7:00 PM

Bixby teacher's union makes GOTV calls at public school facilities

The Bixby Education Association (BEA), local branch of the National Education Association, the left-wing teachers' union, is using Bixby Public Schools facilities, specifically the Media Center at Bixby North Intermediate High School for phone banking to get out the vote for next Tuesday's primary elections. A message announcing the GOTV...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 21, 2018 7:44 PM

Vision2: A better vision for Bixby, Jenks, and Sand Springs

Here's my second installment of fliers explaining why Vision2 hurts Tulsa County's municipalities and how these cities would be better off enacting a city sales tax to replace the Vision 2025 county sales tax when it expires on the last day of 2016. Specifically, this time, here's a better alternative...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 31, 2012 12:00 PM

Oklahoma municipal elections, school runoffs today, April 5, 2011

Oklahoma towns and cities with a statutory charter (which is to say, no charter at all; they are governed by the default provisions of Oklahoma Statutes Title 11) and some charter cities have elections today, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Some school board seats will have a runoff, if none of...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 5, 2011 12:23 AM

Regal Plaza developers connected to apartment bankruptcies

The daily paper has an appalling story about tenants in several Tulsa apartment complexes going without central air conditioning because of the complexes' owner's bankruptcy, which is tied to the previous owner's default on mortgages and alleged non-disclosure of said default: In a subsequent lawsuit in the same court, RC...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 13, 2010 2:08 PM