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Tea Party Debt Commission hearing today, 1 pm Central (UPDATE: Report released; hearing forced out of the Capitol!)

See the update below about what happened shortly before the hearing was to begin. As the 12-member congressional debt commission flounders in its task to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars, the Tea Party Debt Commission, a crowd-sourced, online initiative organized by FreedomWorks and Contract from America, has identified...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 17, 2011 9:59 AM

Greater health care freedom, coverage

I was sitting down in the Media Filing Center to begin to clear out some of by back blog, but as I sat down a convention staffer brought by Texas Congressman Michael Burgess. Burgess was here to talk about health care policy. He is an obstetrician and gynecologist, and in...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 4, 2008 5:19 PM

Planning Tulsa's Riverfront: A Brief History

This is the originally submitted version of a story that was published on January 31, 2007 as the cover story of the February 1-7, 2007, edition of Urban Tulsa Weekly, under the headline "The River Review: Planning Tulsa's Riverfront: A Brief History." The story as published can be found on...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 31, 2007 10:13 PM