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Re-Vision foolishness: Where are the BoEs?

The Tulsa City Council is rushing to get the new "Vision" tax on the ballot for April. The current Vision 2025 tax doesn't expire until the end of the year, so they could wait until June (the city, state, and federal primary date) or November (city, state, and federal general...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 13, 2016 11:13 PM

Roscoe Turner, RIP

Services for Roscoe Turner will be held at First Baptist Church, 4th & Cincinnati in downtown Tulsa, Monday, January 27, 2014, at 11:00 a.m., with interment at Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held at Moore's Memory Chapel, 1403 S. Peoria, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday, January 25,...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 25, 2014 11:15 PM

Dewey Bartlett Jr: "As Mayor, I rely on The Weather Channel..."

Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. was quoted in a web advertisement for The Weather Channel, part of the cable network's pushback in its battle against DirecTV's decision to replace the channel with WeatherNation on its satellite lineup. KJRH meteorologist George Flickinger posted a screenshot the ad on his Facebook page....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 14, 2014 10:46 PM

Fix Our Streets tax extension public input meeting tonight

Citizens for a Better Vision was the grassroots group that led the successful opposition to Vision2, using a minuscule budget compared to the millions at the "vote yes" side's proposal. Now they're trying to influence the development of proposals to re-up city sales and property taxes for a new funding...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 27, 2013 12:51 AM

New City Hall and the budget crisis

Late yesterday afternoon, I received an interesting e-mail from Fox 23 investigative reporter Emily Sinovic: This youtube clip has been getting passed around quite a bit recently. Do you have anything you'd like to say about what's happened since you raised these concerns about the unnecessary decision to move into...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 15, 2010 10:27 PM

One Technology Center as Tulsa City Hall: Remembering the eight-to-Eagleton vote

The Whirled editorial board says, regarding the news that the new Tulsa City Hall at One Technology Center will cost $1.4 million more to operate than projected this year, draining Tulsa's general fund budget, that "the old I-told-you-so refrain isn't going to help anything." On the contrary, a healthy dose...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 28, 2009 11:50 PM