Archive for the 'Tulsa' Category

More Of The Same At Tulsa Fairgrounds

With the Tulsa State Fair set to start tomorrow some might be looking forward to seeing the “big cats” of Great Cat Adventures, a company that displays leopards, tigers and other large cats at fairs all over the country. If so, they are in for a disappointment as Tulsa State Fair officials have canceled the [...]

Tulsa Gets Motivated

And it was a fiasco. On Monday morning the shiny new BOK Center hosted the Get Motivated Seminar featuring among its speakers General Colin Powell, Zig Ziglar, and Joe Montana. In some media reports the attendance was reported at 16,000 while in others it was reported as 18,000. In any case it was way too [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Z’s Final Hurrah

A Bubbaworld Editorial The Tulsa School Board and “Dr. Z”, aka Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Michael Zolkoski have agreed to what one might call an “amicable divorce”. Maybe a “slow motion amicable divorce” would be a more accurate description of the breakup. Unlike most scenarios where a high level manager departs an organization suddenly [...]

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 [...]

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 President [...]