Archive for January, 2008

The Scarlet ‘D’

Democratic Rep. Scott Inman of Del City wants a new law to require that anyone with a drunk driving conviction to have it noted on their driver’s license.
The new ‘Scarlet DD’ driver’s licenses might make a neat addition to the ‘Scarlet SO’ drivers’ license, denoting sex offenders.
Come to think of it, there are others that [...]

ORU Sold – Sorta’

A Bubbaworld Opinion/Editorial
What will $62 million get you?
For starters, $62 million will get you a scandal plagued university in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
It may also get you the biggest surprise of your life, if you paid $62 million for it.
To the surprise of few, if any, the Board of Regents of Oral Roberts University jumped at the [...]

Tulsa, Bloody Tulsa

The 2007 homicide death toll for Tulsa is 64. Not a new record, but not far from it either as the record for homicides in Tulsa is 69, set in 2003 during a major “gang war”.
Tulsa’s oldest homicide victim of 2007 was 68 and the youngest was not born yet.
Here’s the breakdown of homicides [...]

Roy Smith Plea and Sentence

On January 4, 2008 Roy Albert Smith Jr. 22, of Gore, Oklahoma in a plea deal with prosecutors pleaded guilty to child abuse and neglect and received a 10-year prison sentence.
As part of the plea deal between Smith and prosecutors, a provision was included for a judicial review in December to determine if he is [...]