Archive for January, 2008

Good News – Bad News

As the old story goes, we have some good news and we have some bad news.
And the news comes from the same source, the Oklahoma State Department of Health which just released the results of the 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
A survey developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and conducted [...]

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 [...]