http://www.batesline.com/ Tulsa straight ahead en Copyright 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:57:17 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Your opportunity to shape the Republican Party's principles, personality, and personnel begins with tomorrow's Republican precinct caucuses. Republican caucuses for most Tulsa County precincts will be held tomorrow morning, Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 10 a.m. Most of the rest of Oklahoma will hold precinct caucuses on Monday evening, February... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/tulsa-county-gop-precinct-caucus.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/tulsa-county-gop-precinct-caucus.html Politics::Election 2012 precinct caucuses Republican Party Tulsa County Republican Party Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:57:17 -0600 Newt Gingrich is challenging the plurality-takes-all allocation of Florida's 50 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Mitt Romney finished first in the January 31st primary with 46% of the vote, which means, according to rules adopted by the Florida state party rules, Romney gets all 50. Republicans in Florida and... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/newts-florida-challenge-and-the.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/newts-florida-challenge-and-the.html Politics::Election 2012 delegate count presidential primary Republican Party Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:32:01 -0600 I've been nominated, once again, for the Tulsa Press Club Newsie awards, in the category of Favorite Blog. This is the second year for the Newsie awards, and categories cover news, weather, and sports in print, online, and on the radio and TV airwaves. (Here are the results from the... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/nominated-again-for-a-newsie.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/nominated-again-for-a-newsie.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:44:20 -0600 Florida turned out as expected, but as I wrote right after South Carolina, there's no need for anyone of the remaining candidates to head for the exits. Mitt Romney's campaign is restarting the inevitability bandwagon. Pundits are falling over each other to be the first to declare that it's all... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/republican-cumulative-delegates.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/02/republican-cumulative-delegates.html Politics::Election 2012 delegate count presidential primary Republican Party Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:58:34 -0600 The world's premier cowboy band, Riders in the Sky, will perform at this year's National Fiddler Hall of Fame gala on April 14, 2012, at Tulsa's historic Cain's Ballroom. The Riders' fiddler, Woody Paul, the King of the Cowboy Fiddlers, is one of this year's inductees into the hall of... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/riders-in-the-sky-at-cains-april.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/riders-in-the-sky-at-cains-april.html Western Swing bluegrass fiddle Keith Coleman Riders in the Sky Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:15:18 -0600 Julie R. Neidlinger has written a moving account of her final farewell to the Patisserie on Fourth, a bakery in downtown Bismarck, North Dakota, where she worked as a baker for a couple of years. The Patisserie on Fourth closed permanently on Tuesday. As she helped the owner clear out... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/bakeries-coffee-houses-and-econo.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/bakeries-coffee-houses-and-econo.html Cities bakeries coffeehouses economic development small business Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:44:03 -0600 State of the Union Address notwithstanding, hundreds of Oklahomans turned out for tonight's National School Choice Week event at UCO. We heard remarks by State Superintendent Janet Barresi, former Congressman J. C. Watts, State Sen. Gary Stanislawski, Jeff Reed of the Friedman Institute, and political reporter John Fund (on book... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/oklahoma-school-choice-event-a-b.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/oklahoma-school-choice-event-a-b.html Education Tulsa::Education charter schools J. C. Watts Janet Barresi John Fund school choice school vouchers teachers' unions Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:41:25 -0600 A reminder that tonight, Tuesday, January 24, 2012, is Oklahoma's National School Choice Week event, "Restoring American Exceptionalism, an Oklahoma Town Hall," at UCO in Edmond, tonight at 7 p.m. Speakers include John Fund from the Wall Street Journal, State Superintendent Janet Barresi, former Congressman J. C. Watts, and Tulsa... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/national-school-choice-week-foru.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/national-school-choice-week-foru.html Education Tulsa::Education charter schools school choice school vouchers Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:42:43 -0600 Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr is pushing for a policy change to Tulsa's local government cable channel that would hinder public transparency and accountability in city government. Today, Monday, January 23, 2012, at 2 p.m., in City Hall room 411, the TGOV Coordinating Committee will meet to discuss: Whether or... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/putting-blinders-on-tgov-whats-b.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/putting-blinders-on-tgov-whats-b.html Tulsa::CityHall Open Meetings Act open records TGOV transparency Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:21:10 -0600 The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating interactive graphic, with stair-steps showing how allocated Republican delegates accumulate over time in 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. It's striking to see how far to the right everything has moved this year. The massive step up on Tsunami Tuesday (February 3, 2008) has... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/flat-february-no-need-to-head-fo-1.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/flat-february-no-need-to-head-fo-1.html Politics::Election 2012 Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich presidential primary Republican Party Rick Santorum Santorum Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:52:57 -0600 Thanks to Sarah Palin, Not Romney won South Carolina by giving Newt Gingrich a plurality of the vote. Newt Gingrich's 1st place finish in South Carolina halted Mitt Romney's winning streak of one and deflated the notion that Romney is inevitably going to be the nominee. Romney's best assets in... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/flat-february-no-need-to-head-fo.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/flat-february-no-need-to-head-fo.html Politics::Election 2012 Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich presidential primaries Republican Party Rick Santorum Santorum Super Tuesday Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:27:32 -0600 Number 3 in our review of international western swing bands, building an invite list for that dreamed-of Tulsa International Festival of Western Swing. From Malmö, Sweden, it's the Swinging Hayriders with the "Texas Playboy Rag": From the "Band" page on their official website: Swinging Hayriders is a band from Malmö... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/international-western-swing-the.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/international-western-swing-the.html Western Swing Sweden Swinging Hayriders western swing Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:21:18 -0600 Second in our series documenting the international reach of western swing music and compiling an invite list for Tulsa's (purely hypothetical at this point) International Festival of Western Swing. From the Bananapeel Jazzclub in Ruiselede, Belgium, here's Little Kim and the Alley Apple 3, performing the Johnnie Lee Wills song,... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/little-kim-alley-apple-3.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/little-kim-alley-apple-3.html Western Swing Cindy Walker Johnnie Lee Wills Little Kim and the Alley Apple 3 western swing Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:14:00 -0600 BatesLine was offline yesterday, Wednesday, January 18, 2012, in protest of two draconian bills that could be used to suppress free speech on the Internet. In the course of the day, in which major sites, like Wikipedia, and thousands of minor sites went dark, many members of Congress spoke for... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/back-online-after-sopapipa-black.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/back-online-after-sopapipa-black.html Politics Technology EFF PIPA PROTECT IP SOPA Wikipedia Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:17:56 -0600 Things are busy with a couple of projects, but I feel compelled to update this blog from time to time, so I thought I'd begin to document, one music video at a time, the international reach of western swing. Consider this series the beginnings of an invite list for Tulsa's... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/international-western-swing-jiri.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2012/01/international-western-swing-jiri.html Western Swing Ida Red Jiří Králík & Rowdy Rascals Roly Poly western swing Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:03:26 -0600