The cat has slipped out of the bag much to the dismay of supporters of two ballot initiatives that would generate $450 million in taxes to fix Tulsa’s crumbling streets and bridges. And “the cat” is the existence of $135.2 million dollars in unspent tax revenues collected over the past 20 to 30 years through [...]
Former Oklahoma Senator Gene Stipe has once again managed to avoid a criminal trial – surprise, surprise. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ronald White for the second time ruled Stipe mentally incompetent to stand trial on a four-count federal indictment that accuses him of continued political corruption and bribery. Judge White said, “It would be [...]
Before Tulsans can fight City Hall they have to find it and for some finding City Hall has recently become a major problem. It used to be that City Hall was very easy to find. It was located in what is called the Civic Center, a place where one also finds the Tulsa County Court [...]
Midwest City, OK police officer Larry Schones had to catch the school bus Friday morning. Not that Officer Schones was going back to school. He did however catch the school bus carrying about 30 students to Star Spencer High School in Oklahoma City and driven by this man, Anthony Dewitt Atchison, 25. When Officer Schones [...]
The Grady County Gambling Raid case came to a logical conclusion Friday when former Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen, his wife Helen McMullen and two former deputies Delmer Barthelme and Robert Cacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty for allowing illegal gambling at the Chickasha Elks Lodge. The plea deal [...]
