Archive for the 'Tulsa Fairgrounds' Category

An Old Fashion Butt Kickin’

Sally Bell has handed Tulsa County Commissioner Randi Miller an old fashion butt kickin’ in the Tulsa County District 2 County Commission Republican primary.
That Bell defeated Miller is no surprise although the margin of victory for Bell was pleasantly surprising.
Sally Bell received 81.4% of the vote to Miller’s 18.6%, leaving no doubt as to how [...]

Former CEO Fingers County Commissioner

Rick Bjorklund, until recently the President and CEO of Expo Square, aka “Tulsa Fairgrounds” has fingered Tulsa County Commissioner Randi Miller as the person behind his actions or more appropriately inactions involving the failure of Big Splash Water Park to pay its rent on time.
Bjorklund has told the Tulsa World that then fair board chairwoman, [...]

Rick Bjorklund Under the Bus

Tulsa County Commissioners Randi Miller and John Smaligo teamed up with other members of the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority to toss Rick Bjorklund under the bus this morning, possibly in an attempt to save their political careers.
The Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority, with Commissioner Smaligo leading the charge, today fired Expo Square [...]

Yet Another Fairgrounds Scandal

Less than a week after a major scandal over unsafe rides hit Big Splash Water Park there comes another scandal. A scandal that is causing a lot of red faces for Tulsa County commissioners, Tulsa Expo Square management and of course Big Splash management.
It seems that Big Splash Water Park is late on paying [...]

Double Speak At Big Splash

Loretta Murphy, the “owner” of Big Splash Water Park in Tulsa on Monday agreed to an interview with KOTV to present her “side” of the story regarding the recent shut down for safety reasons of water slides at Big Splash.
Of the failure to replace rotten support beams discovered by state inspectors in December and discovered [...]