Archive for April, 2007
Yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney make a quick stop in Tulsa for a fund raiser in behalf of Senator Jim Inhofe. The numbers were not very impressive although the traffic congestion in downtown Tulsa was. Supporters/attendees: 225 or 250 (depending on which report you believe) at $250 each Private reception/photo op attendees: 70 at $2,000 [...]
April 28th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | No Comments
Publication Date: 4/26/07 Last Update: 4/26/07 On 4/25/2007, convicted child rapist cop Robert Samuel Wheeland of Haskell, Oklahoma was formally sentenced following his earlier convictions on two counts of lewd molestation and one count of second-degree rape, in a case involving a 15-year-old female victim. At Wheeland’s sentencing his attorney Chad Richardson said: Justice cannot [...]
April 26th, 2007 | Posted in Child Abuse, Crime, Law Enforcement, Muskogee County | No Comments
Many of the residents of the town of Krebs, Oklahoma are without natural gas and have been without gas since early on the morning of April 18th. The reason for the outage is that their natural gas service is through a small privately owned utility named Public Gas Company of Oklahoma whose supplier has shut [...]
April 24th, 2007 | Posted in Utilities | No Comments
Tulsa’s without the air pollution that is Michael DelGiorno is as refreshing as an Oklahoma spring shower. Hopefully there will be many more weeks without the air pollution that formerly flowed from radio station KFAQ during DelGiorno’s reign of hypocrisy and double standards. Unfortunately we can not count on it as DelGiorno’s sidekick, Gwen Freeman, [...]
April 21st, 2007 | Posted in Media, Politics, Tulsa, Tulsa County | 1 Comment
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is a secretive agency. It hides behind state privacy laws, conducts its work in secret and apparently answers to no one. Seldom do we mere commoners get a glimpse into the workings or lack thereof of the Oklahoma DHS. And usually when we do it is the result of [...]
April 15th, 2007 | Posted in DHS | No Comments
First District Congressman John Sullivan dropped by the VA Medical Center in Muskogee Monday for a look-see and a bit of glad handing, even though the facility is within the district of Congressman Dan Boren. With 64,000 vets residing in the First District evidently Congressman Sullivan felt a desire to see what is going on. [...]
April 10th, 2007 | Posted in Muskogee County, Politics | No Comments