Archive for August, 2007

Coburn’s Frat Boys At It Again

Senator Tom Coburn’s ‘frat boy staff’ is at it again.
This time with a mis-directed e-mail and as usual it was Senator Coburn’s communications director, John Hart that managed to make a fool of himself, embarrassing the Senator and Oklahomans in the process.
The latest Coburn staff screw-up came in relation to the now over battle between [...]

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Can anyone think of anything more stupid that trying to pass counterfeit cash at a police station?
If you can please do not tell Crystal Bell and Ronnie Tarr of Ada, Oklahoma.

They already have enough problems.

Here We Go Again

Here we go again.
The feds, in the form of the U.S. Justice Department, are taking Oklahoma to federal court over civil rights violations.
This time the problem centers on the L.E. Rader Center, in Sand Springs, Oklahoma’s only maximum security juvenile facility.
The latest action was filed last year in U.S. District Court for the Northern District [...]

The Big Stinky

For many years there has been a not so well kept “secret” about the Arkansas River in Tulsa.
It stinks.
Just ask any west-sider and they will tell you about the smells that arise from two refineries, one sewage treatment plant and its associated facilities. Especially on a calm summer day with the temperature hovering around [...]

Randi Miller’s Fat In the Fire

Tulsa County Commissioner Randi Miller has evidently begun feeling the heat over the eviction of Bell’s Amusement Park from the Tulsa Fairground.
So much so that she’s now resorting to smoke and mirrors in an attempt to get her fat out of the fire.
A fire which came to light when a KOTV/Tulsa World poll published over [...]

The Jenks Drillers

Nah, they will still be the Tulsa Drillers.
They will just play their baseball games in Jenks, where city officials and private developers seem to have sufficient intelligence and determination to achieve river development WITHOUT sticking the taxpayers with the bill.