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Jason Carini for Rogers County Treasurer

I don't often comment on other jurisdictions, but this is a race worthy of note, and the best candidate is someone I've known personally for many years, someone I can endorse with unqualified enthusiasm. I urge my Rogers County readers to vote for Jason Carini as County Treasurer on June...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 18, 2014 8:38 PM

Name that party: Randy Baldridge

A lurid story involving a disgraced former elected official is all over the local news. Randy Baldridge, who served as a Rogers County, Oklahoma, Commissioner, and then served a term in a federal penitentiary for "conspiracy, fraud and misapplication of funds by a local government official, mail fraud, money laundering,...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 8, 2014 10:59 PM

Special elections in Tulsa County District 3, Rogers County

Today, August 13, 2013, the polls will be open in southern Tulsa County, including the southern part of midtown Tulsa, for the special general election to replace retiring Tulsa County District 3 Commissioner Fred Perry. On the ballot are former State Rep. Ron Peters, who heads a public relations firm,...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 13, 2013 2:56 AM