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Tulsa City Council funds teen sex survey with federal COVID cash

A sex survey targeting teenagers was funded by the City of Tulsa using federal COVID relief funding. The survey was one of 70 non-profit projects selected for funding by a working group of four city councilors who are on next Tuesday's ballot -- Phil Lakin (District 8), Jeannie Cue (2),...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 16, 2022 10:59 PM

Tulsa March for Life, today, 11:30 a.m.

Tulsa's second annual March for Life and rally will be held today, January 22, 2011, in downtown Tulsa, to mark the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decisions that overturned abortion prohibitions in every state. The march will begin at 8th and Boulder at 11:30 and will proceed 6 blocks...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 22, 2011 12:00 AM

Urban design experts looking at Evans-Fintube site

A group of urban planners from the Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD) is in Tulsa today looking at the city's most significant brownfield: The Evans Electric and Fintube plants, which are located east of OSU-Tulsa, north of Archer St., between the BNSF (formerly AT&SF) tracks and US 75. The...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 13, 2009 12:02 PM

Reagan on Tulsa and the National Fire Protection Code

Looking for some information relating to my next column (dealing with the requirement to add sprinklers to older apartment and condo buildings), I found the text of one of Ronald Reagan's radio commentaries from the summer of 1977 that had to do with Tulsa and part of the local Army...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 2, 2009 10:43 PM

City fires back on county jail negotiations

The jail sharing contract between the City of Tulsa and Tulsa County is due to expire in less than two weeks, and negotiations are stalled. Mayor Kathy Taylor issued a memo to the City Council last Friday reviewing the origins of the current contract, created in 1995, and the county...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 18, 2008 2:06 PM

Kathy Taylor's crime position paper

Thanks to a helpful reader, I managed to find a cached version of the crime position paper that had been on Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor's campaign website prior to the 2006 election. Just in case it vanishes from there, I've posted the whole thing below, in the extended entry. It...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 27, 2007 11:49 PM

Mayoral responses to the <em>Urban Tulsa Weekly</em> questionnaire

Since these haven't yet been posted on the UTW website, I'll post them here: Introduction Below are the responses submitted by Bill LaFortune to the Urban Tulsa Weekly questionnaire. Democrat nominee Kathy Taylor and Independent candidate Benford L. Faulk did not submit replies. Paul Tay submitted his reply prior to...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 2, 2006 8:06 PM

Failure is not an option

We've been enjoying this evening's programming on the History Channel: "Failure Is Not an Option", two two-hour documentaries on the U. S. manned spaceflight program, as told by the men and women in Mission Control. The first program covers the beginnings through the end of Project Apollo; the second covers...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 28, 2006 10:06 PM

Chamber wants to remake Midtown

All of the talk about "vision" over the last year was focused on building publicly-funded capital improvements, but a real vision should deal with the big picture -- what do we want Tulsa to look like, what do we want our own neighborhood to be like, and what do we...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 2, 2003 5:23 PM