http://bubbaworld.com Eleven Years Of Telling It Like It Is In Oklahoma Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:54:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The cat has slipped out of the bag much to the dismay of supporters of two ballot initiatives that would generate $450 million in taxes to fix Tulsa's crumbling streets and bridges. And "the cat" is the existence of $135.2 million dollars in unspent tax revenues collected over the past 20 ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/10/29/tulsas-135-million-slush-fund/ Former Oklahoma Senator Gene Stipe has once again managed to avoid a criminal trial - surprise, surprise. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ronald White for the second time ruled Stipe mentally incompetent to stand trial on a four-count federal indictment that accuses him of continued political corruption and bribery. Judge White said, ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/10/29/still-crazy-like-a-fox/ Before Tulsans can fight City Hall they have to find it and for some finding City Hall has recently become a major problem. It used to be that City Hall was very easy to find. It was located in what is called the Civic Center, a place where one ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/10/16/you-cant-find-city-hall/ Midwest City, OK police officer Larry Schones had to catch the school bus Friday morning. Not that Officer Schones was going back to school. He did however catch the school bus carrying about 30 students to Star Spencer High School in Oklahoma City and driven by this man, Anthony Dewitt Atchison, 25. When ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/10/11/catching-the-school-bus/ The Grady County Gambling Raid case came to a logical conclusion Friday when former Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen, his wife Helen McMullen and two former deputies Delmer Barthelme and Robert Cacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty for allowing illegal gambling at the Chickasha ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/10/06/grady-county-gambling-raid-part-5/ Congratulations to the Oklahoma Supreme Court which finally got around to disbarring former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson. His "dishonor", Judge Thompson achieved world-wide fame as The Masturbating Judge who a jury found guilty of indecent exposure on allegations that he sat through trials, including murder cases, merrily pumping away ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/09/24/masturbating-judge-disbarred/ 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 ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/09/24/more-of-the-same-at-tulsa-fairgrounds/ 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 ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/09/23/tulsa-gets-motivated/ 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 ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/07/30/an-old-fashion-butt-kickin/ July 29th will be a big day for Woodward County Sheriff Leslie Morton, shown above, as it is primary election day and he is facing two opponents in the Democrat primary race for Sheriff of Woodward County. Sheriff Morton may be a bit distracted on election day as that is also ... http://bubbaworld.com/2008/07/20/sheriff-says-drop-them-charges/