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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),...
Tawny Sheppard: missing and endangered in Tulsa
The Tulsa Police Department is looking for Tawny Sheppard, age 21, date of birth December 19, 1991, 5'3" tall, weight 135. According to the news release, "Tawny is homeless and was last seen around the Tulsa Select Hotel at 5100 S. Yale. She is also known to be around the...
Marilyn Chapel: <s>missing and endangered</s> FOUND
UPDATE: FOUND. At 10:20 a.m., Wednesday, January 23, 2013, TPD issued a release saying that Marilyn Chapel had been located by a family member late Tuesday, and that she was unharmed. Kudos to TPD for putting the info about her safe recovery on the same URL that was used to...
Micheal Kanada, missing persons, the police, and search engines
Earlier tonight (January 10, 2013), a friend posted a photo of a boy on Facebook, surrounded by a yellow and black striped border made to look like police crime scene tape, and overlaid with the following text (phone numbers redacted): Have you seen me? My name is Micheal Kanada I...
Saturday (Doomsday+7) roundup, 2011/05/28
Browsing through a copy of The Happiness Project at the airport bookshop, I encountered the phrase "aspirational clutter," the stuff you don't need but keep around because represents some project or plan you hope to accomplish (but very likely won't). Consider this a yard sale of blog entries and news...
Missing persons in Tulsa - UPDATE: Both found!
UPDATE: Robert Carpenter was found shortly after midnight, Dec. 16, near 81st and Mingo. At 3 pm, TPD reported that Joe Kelley III had been found. The Tulsa Police Department is requesting help in locating two missing persons, one old and one young. (Translated from police-ese to English.) The Tulsa...
Astounding! A police department that investigates burglaries
Not Tulsa, of course; Kitsap County, Washington: Authorities are looking for a burglary suspect they said was identified through DNA left on a beer can at a crime scene in 2005. Prosecutors in Kitsap County have charged Curtis Kees Napoleon, a 20-year-old North Kitsap man, in thefts of over $30,000...
Judicious voting
An edited version of this column was published in the November 2-8, 2006, issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly. The published version is available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Here's my blog entry linking to the article. Posted October 25, 2022. Judicious voting By Michael D. Bates Ye shall not...
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