Archive for October, 2007

Bells Toll For Randi And Rick

The 2007 Tulsa State Fair is history, just like Bell’s Amusement Park at the Tulsa Fairgrounds.
So how did the Tulsa State Fair do without it’s mainstay tenant of the past 50 plus years?
Attendance at the 2007 Tulsa State Fair was down 7 percent over last year.
Food and beverage concessions were down 4 percent over last [...]

Another Oral Roberts Scandal

A Bubbaworld Opinion/Editorial Piece
Just like the boom/bust cycle of Oklahoma’s petroleum industry you can always count on another scandal at Oral Roberts Ministries/University. These things run in cycles.
The latest ORU scandal involves allegations of misdeeds on the part of Richard Roberts, Roberts family members and school officials, employees and regents.
Three former Oral Roberts University [...]

Look Like Anyone You Know?

This is a Broken Arrow Police sketch of a possible suspect in a recent abduction and rape of a 5-year-old girl.
This sketch was put together after speaking with multiple witnesses who saw the man.
He was reportedly wearing a yellow short-sleeve T-shirt with the word “CAT” on the front and red shorts and was driving [...]

How Many Fairs Are Going On?

One may be inclined to wonder how may fairs are going on in Tulsa currently judging from various news media reports.
In a report titled, “Fair is fairly safe – so far” the Tulsa World proclaims in regard to the Tulsa State Fair, “The first days are relatively free of accidents and crime.”
There there’s these reports [...]

Shame on QuickTrip

Tulsa based QuickTrip should be ashamed of itself.
Why?
Not for something QuickTrip is doing but rather for something it is not doing.
Namely, it is not telling its customers that it may be selling them “blended gasoline” and doing so without their knowledge.
Granted, as QuickTrip spokesman Mike Thornbrugh points out, there is no law requiring QuickTrip to [...]