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KOTV investigates Bell's eviction

I just watched a lengthy investigative piece by KOTV about the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority's decision to boot Bell's from the Fairgrounds. If you've been reading about the issue here and in Urban Tulsa Weekly, there won't be too much that you haven't already heard, but they do a...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 30, 2007 10:18 PM

At-large barge runs aground; Murphy's sweet deal

The final report from Tulsa's Citizens' Commission on City Government is the topic of this week's column in Urban Tulsa Weekly. The commission, appointed by then-Mayor Bill LaFortune last December, finished on schedule, made some constructive recommendations, including a recommendation against adding at-large seats to the City Council. You can...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 22, 2006 10:20 PM

Scary bypass

An edited version of this piece was published on April 26, 2006, in Urban Tulsa Weekly. The archived version is no longer online. Posted on the web on August 18, 2010. It appears that Tulsa's development lobby, discouraged by the results of the Tulsa City Council elections, has decided to...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 26, 2006 12:59 AM

At-large petition dead; LaFortune forms Citizens' Commission

An edited version of this column was published in the December 14, 2005, edition of Urban Tulsa Weekly. The published version is still online, courtesy of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Here's my blog entry linking to the article. Posted October 28, 2017. The at-large councilor petition appears to be...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 14, 2005 8:56 AM