http://www.batesline.com/ Tulsa straight ahead en Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:44:51 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Oklahoma's statewide school board elections are today, February 9, 2010. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Two Tulsa school board seats are being contested: Here is a PDF map of Tulsa School Board District 7 and here's a PDF map of Tulsa School Board District 4. District... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/school-board-election-2010-today.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/school-board-election-2010-today.html Tulsa::Education Tulsa Public Schools Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:44:51 -0600 It's always interesting to see the Money Belt make an appearance in unexpected ways. The latest manifestation is in a map of water usage by neighborhood generated by the Tulsa World from city utility records. The neighborhoods with heaviest usage -- an average of 125,000 gallons per year and up... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/money-belt-is-megawet.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/money-belt-is-megawet.html Tulsa::CityHall Charles Hardt Tulsa Public Works Department water usage Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:53:05 -0600 This is encouraging news: Both Tulsa school board incumbents have drawn opponents for re-election. All too often school board members are returned to office with little if any scrutiny of their service. The election is this Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Because both seats drew only two candidates, there's no need... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/lois-jacobs-for-tulsa-school-boa.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/lois-jacobs-for-tulsa-school-boa.html Tulsa::Education Anna America Bobbie Gray charter schools Lois Jacobs Matt Livingood Tulsa Public Schools Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:33:26 -0600 Kristin and Nathan Pickard, the Brady Heights couple whose 30-day experiment in commuting through Tulsa by bicycle is nearing its end, were profiled by Holly Wall in the latest (February 1, 2010) issue of Tulsa Business Journal. If you haven't visited their blog in a while, you'll want to get... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/carless-couple-profiled-in-tulsa.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/carless-couple-profiled-in-tulsa.html adaptive reuse bicycle commuting historic preservation Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:06:46 -0600 American Majority's Tulsa candidate training seminar, originally scheduled for just before Christmas, will be held in two Saturdays, on February 20, 2010, from 8:30 to 4:00. It will be at the Tulsa Technology Center Lemley Campus, in the Career Services Center, at 3638 S Memorial. There is a registration fee... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-activist-and-candidate-tra.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-activist-and-candidate-tra.html Oklahoma::Politics Politics activist training American Majority candidate training Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:18:13 -0600 (Sorry to be so late in posting this.) The Tulsa County Republican Party is holding an open county-wide meeting at the Tulsa Technology Center Lemley Campus, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, 9 a.m. Party officials will give an update on local party activities, and many candidates running in 2010 will be... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-county-gop-open-meeting-ra.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-county-gop-open-meeting-ra.html Oklahoma::Politics Republican Party Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:32:25 -0600 Listening to last week's radio reports of slick roads brought to mind a commercial parody from back when Michael DelGiorno hosted the morning show on 1170 KFAQ, back during Tulsa's last budget crisis, early in the Bill LaFortune administration. A 911 caller with a police emergency was told by the... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/operation-slick-budget.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/operation-slick-budget.html Tulsa::CityHall Tulsa::Crime Tulsa budget Tulsa Police Department Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:50:00 -0600 Oklahoma 1st District Congressman John Sullivan has introduced a resolution (H. Res. 1063) targeting the individual health insurance mandate, one of the components of the Democratic Party health insurance proposal that passed the U. S. Senate in December, according to a news release on Sullivan's House website, issued today: "My... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/sullivan-challenges-constitution.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/sullivan-challenges-constitution.html Politics health insurance Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:47 -0600 The Citizens in Charge Foundation has issued its 2010 report card on voter initiative rights in each of the states. (The full state-by-state report is an 8.2 MB PDF. The flag pictures are pretty -- I always like to see the old-fashioned font, with the arched A, used for OKLAHOMA,... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/oklahoma-gets-a-c-on-initiative.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/oklahoma-gets-a-c-on-initiative.html Oklahoma::Politics Initiative Petition Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:56:04 -0600 http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/planitulsa-district-meetings.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/planitulsa-district-meetings.html Tulsa::Zoning comprehensive plan PLANiTULSA TMAPC Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:14:25 -0600 I've been negligent in reminding you about an excellent source for information about current issues at Tulsa's City Hall. Tulsa District 7 City Councilor John Eagleton has a personal website, johneagleton.com, where he posts some of the data and analysis that inform his decisions as a councilor. The latest article... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-budget-info-at-johneagleto.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-budget-info-at-johneagleto.html Tulsa::CityHall John Eagleton Tulsa budget Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:55:17 -0600 Photographer Erin Conrad has decided to blog every day this month: That seems like an appropriate thing to do for the shortest month in the year. Blog every day of it. So perhaps I should try to do the same -- get back in the habit of posting on a... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-blog-roundup-20100201.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/02/tulsa-blog-roundup-20100201.html Oklahoma Bloggers Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:53:17 -0600 If you were paying attention to world news in 1980 and 1981, you know of Lech Wałęsa, the man who turned an illegal independent trade union into a force for freedom in communist Poland. Although his efforts directly resulted in his imprisonment and the imposition of martial law, in 1988... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/01/lech-walesa-on-the-worlds-need-f.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/01/lech-walesa-on-the-worlds-need-f.html Politics Adam Andrzejewski government corruption government transparency Illinois Lech Walesa Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:23:08 -0600 David Schuttler has posted some pretty pictures of Tulsa's January 2010 ice and snow storm.... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/01/ice-storm-photos.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/01/ice-storm-photos.html Tulsa ice storm weather Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:10:00 -0600 As the weather gets worse, it's less likely I'll be able to post here at BatesLine, but as long as I have a cellphone connection, I can post brief updates on Twitter. You can follow my "tweets" (Twitter updates) by clicking this link: @BatesLine. By consensus, tweets about the Oklahoma... http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/01/oklahoma-ice-storm-on-twitter.html http://www.batesline.com/archives/2010/01/oklahoma-ice-storm-on-twitter.html Oklahoma Tulsa ice storm weather Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:39:27 -0600