Tulsa County District 3 Commissioner Fred Perry announced today that he will resign effective July 8, 2013, about 18 months before the expiration of his second term as a commissioner. (Read the press release at TheOkie.com.) The announcement comes three months after Perry, age 72, underwent a heart procedure; Perry...
Posted by Michael Bates on February 11, 2013 10:08 PM
I've been negligent. I did tweet about this brilliant video by Steven Roemerman, but had yet to post it here. Steven tried to call all three Tulsa County commissioners to invite them to speak to a neighborhood meeting on January 2, 2017, the day after the Vision2 tax will go...
Posted by Michael Bates on October 29, 2012 12:09 AM
I've been told that my name has been mentioned in connection with the decision of the Tulsa County Republican Party County Committee to censure County Commissioners John Smaligo and Fred Perry for their vote to put the Vision2 sales tax on the ballot for November. For the moment, a few...
Posted by Michael Bates on August 21, 2012 12:13 PM
TULSA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESS RELEASE Members of the Tulsa County Republican Party County Committee met on Saturday, August 18, 2012 and adopted a resolution calling for the defeat of the Vision2 county sales tax propositions on the November ballot and opposing any use of Vision 2025 funds to...
Posted by Michael Bates on August 20, 2012 11:59 PM
From the Tulsa Beacon, in support of incumbent County Commissioner Fred Perry: Commissioner Fred Perry has made some good decisions in his first four years. He is moving toward more openness and he has helped make progress at Expo Square. From Dan Hicks via email and in the Beacon's letters...
Posted by Michael Bates on July 26, 2010 3:02 AM
I'm dealing with blog guilt. I look at my blog and feel guilty for not updating it. Then I start to write a blog post and feel guilty about all the non-blog things I should be doing instead. I was at a candidate's volunteer event today and someone was surprised...
Posted by Michael Bates on July 17, 2010 11:36 PM
I can't attend Monday morning's Tulsa County Commission meeting, so I sent the following letter to County Commissioners John Smaligo and Fred Perry urging them to vote against removing Liz Wright from the TMAPC. (I didn't figure there was any point in sending it to Commissioner Karen Keith, the lead...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 22, 2009 11:56 PM
Last week I wrote a primer on tax increment financing (TIF) districts. My column in this week's issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly is the advanced course: TIF districts as applied to Jenks' proposed billion-dollar River District development and a Branson Landing-type development on Tulsa's west bank. You can read all...
Posted by Michael Bates on November 12, 2007 11:10 PM
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