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Owasso city manager malfeasance investigation matter of public interest, court rules

From the Oklahoma Taxpayer Alliance, news on the vindication of the late Owasso City Councilor Patrick Ross in his fight to release a report investigating alleged wrongdoing by City Manager Rodney Ray, whose 20-year tenure ended in 2013 under an ethical cloud but with a hefty severance package from the...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 12, 2020 9:53 PM

2017 Oklahoma school election day

Today, February 14, 2017, is the day that Oklahoma voters choose school board members and vote on school bond issues. Polls are open at the usual locations from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Four K-12 school board seats will be on the ballot, two of them in the Tulsa school...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 14, 2017 7:06 AM

Non-resident Vision2 supporters endorse incumbent Owasso mayor

Incumbent Owasso Mayor Doug Bonebrake is being challenged for his City Council Ward 5 seat by J. B. Alexander, the outgoing Tulsa County Republican Party chairman and a leader of the Owasso Taxpayers Alliance, which has successfully elected two members to the five-member council. The non-partisan election will be held...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 27, 2013 11:29 PM

Vision2: A better vision for Broken Arrow, Glenpool, and Owasso

I've started to put together a series 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. Here are the first...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 24, 2012 12:53 AM

Jenks and Owasso voters give higher taxes thumbs-down

Jenks and Owasso voters turned down property tax increases (general obligation bond issues) by overwhelming margins on Tuesday, while Broken Arrow school district voters approved a reallocation of an existing bond issue that involved no tax increase at all. According to KRMG News, the Owasso tax increase would have amounted...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 12, 2011 1:08 AM

Bond issues today: Broken Arrow schools, Cities of Owasso and Jenks

Voters in two Tulsa County municipalities and a school district will go to the polls today to vote on general obligation bond issues. General obligation bond issues are funded by a property tax increase -- the millage (tax rate) goes up by enough to cover debt service on the bonds....

Posted by Michael Bates on October 11, 2011 7:00 PM