Former Tulsa meteorologist Gary Shore, 55, passed away on Monday in Sioux City, Iowa where he had worked for the past seven years. As of early this morning, only one Tulsa news outlet even carried a mention of Gary’s passing and that was in this KOTV Report. And then there’s this: Danny Satterfield’s A Tribute [...]
As is far too frequently the case, Tulsa City Councilors are discussing how to include prayer in a government function. Apparently the current crop of councilors, some of whom have been there for years, just discovered that there is no hard-and-fast rules or for that matter any rules on how to kick off city council [...]
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 [...]
It appears to this writer that a concerted effort is underway to purge the Tulsa Fairgrounds of anything not horse show related. And it now looks as if another long-term Tulsa Fairgrounds tenant, the Tulsa Flea Market, is doomed to follow Bell’s Amusement Park out the gates of the Fairgrounds. The owners of the Tulsa [...]
Tickets went on sale today for the November 13, 2008 Celine Dion concert in Tulsa. Dion’s is the first big name act to be signed for the Tulsa BOK Center, which isn’t even completed yet but which might be by the time Dion arrives in Tulsa. And some folks apparently already have “sticker shock” over [...]
The PR disaster at Oral Roberts University has gotten so bad that they had to conjure up “The Second Coming of Oral” to deal with the scandal that threatens to destroy the Oral Roberts empire, or as some might call it the “Roberts Family Cash Cow”. Reportedly it has been three long years since the [...]
