No one likes admitting they were wrong but eventually we all have to face the reality that we have made mistakes. Everyone except the Oklahoma Legislature, that is. Rather than acknowledging mistakes, learning from them and seeking to prevent them from occurring again our legislators would rather ignore them in hopes that no [...]
Gore, OK Mayor Mike Kinnear, 55, was arrested on an DUI charge last Wednesday night by the Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Department.
According to Sequoyah County Sheriff Johnny Philpot, Kinnear was arrested in Gore at approximately 7:45 pm on April 4th. Sheriff Philpot alleges that one of his off-duty deputies previously witnessed Kinnear come into the [...]
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Publication Date: 4/05/07
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Meet Crystal Lynn Swift (Top) and Tina Marie Tankersley(Bottom).
This duo of alleged desperadoes ended up in the Tulsa jail on various charges in the wake of a really weird incident in the southwestern part of Tulsa on April 4th, 2007.
Details are still sketchy [...]
Oklahoma State Representative John Trebilcock, Republican, who represents District 98, in Broken Arrow was arrested on a DUI charge in Tulsa at 2:31 AM on March 31, 2007.
The arresting officer indicated in his report that Trebilcock’s SUV was stopped on East 2nd Street in the downtown Tulsa bar/entertainment district because he was driving without his [...]
The state of Oklahoma currently has 6,700 inmates warehoused in private prisons, halfway houses and some county jails. Unless the Oklahoma Legislature provides supplemental funding far greater than the token supplemental appropriation of $9.7 million which it doled out in its ill-fated budget, those 6,700 inmates are going to have to be placed elsewhere [...]
