On a hot August night, dozens of Tulsa’s finest were called to Big Splash Water Park after hundreds of youths reportedly brawled inside the park and on its parking lot. Tulsa Police officers were called in from all over the city to help control the crowd which cops estimated at 3,500. Prior to the arrival [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
