The remnants of Tropical Storm Erin brought death and destruction to Oklahoma this past weekend, leaving at least 6 dead and hundreds of homes and businesses damaged if not outright destroyed. Governor Henry has declared 24 counties as disaster areas and will be asking for federal assistance in recovering from the storm. Hopefully, Oklahoma’s treatment [...]
Another flim-flam has hit consumers of electric service from AEP-PSO. Yesterday the utility raised rates by $8.6 million, supposedly to offset increased costs for meter reading and billing according to the Tulsa World. Also according to the Tulsa World: Under state law, AEP-PSO can institute some or all of the requested $47.9 million increase sought [...]
Bell’s Amusement Park in Tulsa is no more. As of the stroke of midnight Sunday night, June 24th, control of the ten acres on which Bell’s has sat for over 50 years at the Tulsa Fairgrounds has reverted back to Tulsa County along with everything left behind by Bell’s. In the impossible scramble to remove [...]
This week promises to be a big week for former state senator Gene Stipe who resigned in disgrace in conjunction with his guilty pleas in a campaign contribution scandal. On Thursday Stipe, who served over fifty years in the Oklahoma Legislature, will appear in the Eastern District of Oklahoma federal courthouse in Muskogee for a [...]
There really isn’t a town named ‘Speed Trap, Oklahoma’. That would be too obvious even for those that operate speed traps in many Oklahoma towns through which major U.S. and state highways pass. For many years speed traps existed all over Oklahoma. A few years ago a law was passed to put them out of business. That law has [...]
Today Governor Brad Henry signed into law House Bill 1804, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007. The Oklahoma Legislature sought, as best a state can, to do the job the federal government has thus far lacked the courage to do; enact real immigration reform. In signing this bill Governor Henry said “Illegal [...]
