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KVWO Welch benefit dance
This Friday, August 25, 2017, there will be a western swing dance benefitting a small-town, non-profit radio station, KVWO 94.7, the Voice of Welch, Oklahoma. KVWO's "Dance 'Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Unraveling" fundraiser will be held in the Welch Civic Auditorium, running from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm....
Roundup for π Day 2013
Happy Pi Day! This evening at 6:28 Eastern time, applicants to MIT will learn whether or not they've been admitted. For those hopefuls and anyone else in need of worthwhiling away a little time, some links of interest: Tyson Wynn, who runs local news site WelchOK.com, has been bombarded with...
Campaign finance transparency update
Thirteen of the candidates running for Tulsa City Council accepted my challenge to publicize any contributions they received after the pre-primary reporting deadline (listed alphabetically per district): Jason Trent, District 1, Democrat Jeannie Cue, District 2, Republican David W. Bell, District 3, Republican Roscoe Turner, District 3, Democrat Maria Barnes,...
2011 Oklahoma Republican Convention tweets and retweets
Technical note: Copying and pasting tweets into this post was a very frustrating and time-consuming process. In the end, I had to paste the HTML into an Emacs buffer, use a series of regex replacements to clean the text up enough so everything would post without messing up everything else...
Oklahoma links, 2010/06/21
Way back in the first week of BatesLine's existence, I posted photos of Midwest City's doomed Tinker Plaza shopping center. Downtown on the Range has photos of and commentary on the new-urbanist Midwest City Town Center that took its place. Tyson and Jeane Wynn have posted their 50th WynnCast, covering,...
Will Craig County mortgage its future for a community center?
My friend Tyson Wynn has an editorial on WelchOK.com about tomorrow's special election in Craig County to extend a sales tax that currently expires in 2023 to 2040 in order to pay for a new community center. You read that right: They intend to borrow against assumed revenues far into...
Oklahoma roundup 2010/01/08
It's been too long since I've done this, and here I'm going to try to do it on three hours sleep. My day is just about to end as yours is getting started. Here are some posts of interest from blogs in Tulsa and around Oklahoma: Tasha Does Tulsa has...
Tulsa blog roundup 2009/08/24
Links of interest from around Tulsa and nearby: Jim Hartz went exploring around the old KOME studios at 8th and Main and took some photos. KOME 1300 was one of Tulsa's five AM stations back in the '50s, and in 1958 it was the station that sent Rocky Frisco, then...
Monday morning local linkage
I'm swamped at the moment, but there's plenty of interesting blogging elsewhere around Tulsa. Here are just a few examples: Mayoral candidate Chris Medlock writes that the Tulsa World buried the story of his opponent, Dewey Bartlett, Jr., voting in support and praising Kathy Taylor's dodgy settlement on the Great...
Tea Party notes
I didn't make it to any of the Tulsa Tea Parties. I had a quick lunch so I could get home in time to have a nice dinner out with my wife on her birthday -- just the two of us. (We went to Bangkok at 33rd and Harvard. It's...
KRMG returns to the FM dial
The breathless tweets began about noon: NewsTalk740KRMG: MAJOR NEWS about the Tulsa radio landscape to be announced in three hours - at 3pm. Please RT. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:02:11 NewsTalk740KRMG: MAJOR changes to be announced AND implemented at 3pm on Tulsa's KRMG. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:47:58 I duly...
Still the king
Happy 104th birthday to the King of Western Swing! Ah, gather 'round friends! Why hurry? Let's all stay a little longer: --> That's from the movie Blazing the Western Trail, with Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid, with the Texas Playboys' 1945 lineup: Tommy Duncan on vocals, Bob Wills and...
Web reactions to <em>Tulsa World</em> lawsuit
Links, offered without comment, to my latest column, the Whirled's story about the lawsuit that was filed (with over 200 comments at last count), and commentary elsewhere. The column in question Comments on the column The World's story, with a PDF of the petition filed by World Publishing Co., with...
Election day links
Tune in tonight to News Talk 740 KRMG starting at 6 to hear my analysis of the precinct-by-precinct results as they come it from across Tulsa County. Bloggers from coast to coast (and beyond) are writing about the election. Let's begin with a prayer for the day and for the...
Obama's radical pals (and other presidential links)
A selection of links and excerpts: CBS News gives Obama-TV a reality check: Without question, the Barack Obama infomercial served as a very slick and powerful recitation of the biggest promises he's made as a presidential candidate. But the very bigness of his ideas is the problem: he seems blind...
Live blogging underway
Over at Tyson Wynn's place. I'm working, but I'll chime in as I'm able....
Bailout link dump, part 2
Did you know you can have over 100 tabs open in Firefox at once? When that happens, it's time to dump the links, topically if possible. Below you'll find links to some interesting, maybe useful perspective on the bailout and the financial crisis. Yesterday in the mail, I had three...
Liveblogging the debate
I'm over at Tyson Wynn's place liveblogging the presidential debate with Tyson Wynn and Jenn Sierra....
VP debate Wynnterview
Earlier this evening, Tyson Wynn interviewed me and Jason Carini of Oklahomans for Responsible Government about tonight's vice presidential debate between Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware). Click that link to listen and download the podcast. I thought Palin did a wonderful job and clearly came out...
My tank is full
I've spent all morning and the beginning of the afternoon eating and listening. I've finally had the time to stop taking in and starting processing and writing about what I've seen and heard. First stop was a joint breakfast of the Oklahoma and Louisiana delegations, way the heck out in...
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