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February 13, 2024, Oklahoma school primary

ELECTION RESULTS: Tulsa County school district bond issues all passed by a wide margin, each proposition exceeding 80% in favor. School bond issues fell short of the 60% threshold in Canute, Krebs, Silo, and Tupelo. In Boswell, Tuttle, and Weleetka school districts, a majority of voters voted against the bond...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 8, 2024 11:40 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

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