Archive for August, 2007

Working Miracles In Tulsa

Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor is a miracle worker.
Over the course of her administration she has and continues to do the impossible in making former Mayor Bill LaFortune look good by comparison.
Taylor’s latest effort to make Bill LaFortune look good by comparison, while not as dramatic as spending about $70 million for a unneeded and grossly [...]

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 [...]