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  • PJ's Propaganda?

    There is a story in today's Tulsa World dealing with Will Wilkins' claim of ethical violations by two members of the Tulsa Development Authority. Wilkins, of Novus Properties had his exclusive negotiating agreement prematurely ended by the TDA on August 8th, when the five member authority voted such, stating [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2008, 10:22am EDT

  • Novus Homes Files Suit Against TDA

    Will Wilkins of Novus Homes texted me after my show today to tell me that he has filed suit against the Tulsa Development Authority for "Breach of Agreement - Contract"

    You can view the particulars of the suit by clicking here.

    Wilkins is alleging that the TDA [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2008, 4:46pm EDT

  • Lesa Smaligo: Bank of Oklahoma Lobbyist

    Here's an interesting note to ponder. One of the registered lobbyists for Bank of Oklahoma is none other than Lesa Smaligo, the wife of County Commissioner John Smaligo. Could this connection explain some of Commissioner Smaligo's reluctance to not tow the Republican Party's platform and come out against last year's [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 4:40pm EDT

  • Kaiser and Margaret Erling-Frette

    Was poking around in the Oklahoma Ethics Commission's website and found an interesting factoid in the section on lobbyists. Seems that the current principal lobbyist for the Kaiser Family Foundation is Margarette Erling-Frette. You remember her, the principal lobbyist for Great Plains Airlines? You remember George Kaiser, the guy that [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 4:24pm EDT

  • Tom Kivisto Resigns From BOk Board

    Until last Friday, Tom Kivisto was the CEO of Semgroup Energy Partners, LP. Apparently, until last Wednesday, Kivisto was on the Board of Directors of Bank of Oklahoma. He now is out at both entities.

    It was July 10th that Mayor Kathy Taylor sent her company's Learjet 31a [Mayor [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 4:18pm EDT

  • Two people were the primary spokes people ...

    Two people were the primary spokes people selling the new Drillers Ballpark. They were Bank of Oklahoma President Stan Lybarger, and Peter Boylan, formerly the President of TV Guide. I got curious about why Boylan was chosen, aside from his deep financial knowledge and negotiating skills. I also began wondering [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2008, 11:35am EDT

  • Arkansas Policy on Private Jets

    So how much was Kathy Taylor's gift of a flight on her corporate jet worth? Well Arkansas has established a formula for determining just such a trip. The wording of the opinion below deals with lobbyists and not fellow elected officials, but the fact that Taylor had a lobbyist on [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2008, 3:55pm EDT

  • Maybe Kathy Taylor IS a Republilcan?

    Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor apparently hates paying taxes so much, that she and her husband, Bill Lobeck, have established the holding company for their investments in the State of Nevada.

    As postulated in the post below, 1132 Investment Co., which is the official owner of "Mayor Force One," is [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2008, 1:14pm EDT

  • Is Taylor's Jet a Sub-Sonic Ethical Question?

    Some time last week, Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor [as I expected she would] blocked the ability of the public to track her private jet, "Mayor Force One," on the Internet. Apparently, she has become concerned about the increased interest that I and other constituents have been showing in how [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2008, 2:56pm EDT

  • Is Randi Miller the Only One Who Closed Bells?

    The simple answer is of course not.

    Randi Miller was just one of five people who refused to put Bell's lease onto the Fair Board agenda. By refusing to consider a new Bell's lease, each board member cast a de facto vote. As Miller pointed out on Pat Campbell's [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 10:02am EDT

  • My Taylor Sign Contri

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    Posted: July 01, 2008, 11:45pm EDT

  • Qui Tam Booty?


    This is a photograph of Kathy Taylor's private jet [actually, it belongs to 1132 Investment Company, which is owned by Mr. Kathy Taylor, aka Bill Lobeck]. What do you think this Learjet 31a [serial number 28] would fetch should the citizens be successful in hitting [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2008, 8:54am EDT

  • Richard Studenny Off the Hook?

    [Note: I ran the audio from the video that I shot at the Airport meeting and then ran it through a graphic equalizer. With the audio cleaned up and headphones on, I realized I miss heard the Airport Board's position on this. The Board will retain their claims against Studenny. [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 11:10am EDT

  • Council Powerless to Stop Taylor?

    I have it on very good authority that the Tulsa City Council can do nothing to delay Mayor Kathy Taylor from giving away $7 million in Tulsa taxpayer funds to the Bank of Oklahoma. The resolution the Council will be voting on Thursday night is to "survey" the Sinking Fund, [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 6:32pm EDT

  • Kathy Taylor to Pay Off Great Plains Despite Former BOK Ties?

    The hot scuttle-butt down at City Hall is that Kathy Taylor is planning to sign over millions of Tulsa tax payer dollars to the Bank of Oklahoma for a questionable loan made regarding the Great Plains Airlines fiasco.
    Word is that Friday morning she will meet with the Tulsa City [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 11:39am EDT

  • Rick "Choo Choo" Westcott

    I've been making a great deal about Rick Westcott's seeming obsession with Amtrak and light rail. Seems he's more concerned and spends more time trying to get an antiquated mode of transportation brought to our city than he is in optimizing the current mode of transportation in his district.

    [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 8:30am EDT

  • Oklahoma Gay Democrats Pushing Boudaries of Good Taste


    This ad appeared recently in the Oklahoma Gazette [basically OKC's version of Urban Tulsa Weekly].
    What do you think? Offensive? What if you're a WWII vet or a Marine? Does the radical gay lobby have to pervert every iconic image important to traditional Americans?
    I [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 11:17am EDT

  • Scoop: First Look At ORU Faculty Letter

    As I first reported below, the tenured faculty of Oral Roberts University have sent a letter to the Board of Regents stating a lack of confidence in President Richard Roberts.

    Having beaten the Tulsa World by more than five hours in reporting this, I now can be the first [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 8:08pm EST

  • Scoop: ORU Faculty Votes "No Confidence" in Roberts

    A source close to Oral Roberts University has informed me that the university's tenured faculty met Monday and passed a resolution of "no confidence" in suspended ORU President Richard Roberts. The resolution was to be delivered today to a representative of the ORU Board of Regents.

    On the face [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 4:17pm EST

  • Mike Jones and Zig-Zag Logic

    When I read an editorial by the Tulsa World's Mike Jones, I often am unsure as to whether I should scream in outrage or laugh. Jones' column from the Sunday, November 4, 2007 Tulsa World entitled "For freedom: Bibles, Qurans and the reason we need both," made me [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2007, 11:42am EST

  • Accept It Or You're A Bigot

    I'm still marvelling at the spin that is following the decision of dozens of Oklahoma's legislators to decline a complimentary copy of the Koran, that seems to have been offered as a political ploy.

    Most of the vitriol that has been generated by the outraged left has been heeped [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2007, 4:23pm EDT

  • Hey Michael Patton! Who You Calling An Idiot?

    The Tulsa Now Forum began as a fairly even handed, on-line opportunity for Tulsans to discuss local issues on politics, culture and development. However, of late, it has degenerated into a very one-sided rant that is very intolerant of those who might enter to express opposing viewpoints.

    Most troubling [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2007, 10:51am EDT

  • Korans Rejected by Two More Legislators

    Sources tell me that State Sen. James Williamson and State Rep. Ron Peters have joined the growning number of legislators that have declined to accept Koran's that have been offered by a curiously named committee formed by Governor Henry.

    While he has declined the offer of a free "Centennial [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2007, 4:51pm EDT

  • Hot ORU Rumor

    I have it from a pretty good source that is NOT Rick Westcott's e-mail that a second law suit will be filed against Oral Roberts University...this time by a student from the government department. I am told that the suit alleges that by cleaning house of much of the government [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2007, 7:36pm EDT

  • Not Even a Hand Slap?

    As noted below, Toby Huyssen, the ORU student who was alleged to have written an e-mail calling on approximately 350 of his fellow students to come to the Government Department offices to sign up to volunteer in the Randi Miller for Mayor campaign, hasn't seemed to have suffered too much [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2007, 9:35am EDT

  • Toby Huyssen Making News...Again!

    The student that allegedly wrote the now infamous "paper tiger" e-mail, imploring ORU government students to get involved in County Commissioner Randi Miller's mayoral campaign is back in the news. Apparently, he is now living in Louisiana and is heading up an organization called the "Louisiana Action Council" which has [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2007, 11:31am EDT

  • Richard Roberts Finds Little Shelter Here

    Evangelist and Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts states in today's Sunday World that the proof that his students weren't used in an unlawful manner during the 2006 City of Tulsa mayoral primary is that students also worked on other candidate's campaigns, not just County Commissioner Randi Miller's. The Tulsa [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2007, 12:25pm EDT

  • Randi Not Off the Hook

    Right after the concession speeches were made at the Vote Yes watch party, County Commissioner Randy Miller said that “the people have spoken” and that river development was dead for some time. She is basically taking this no vote as a condemnation of all river development, both public and private.
    [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2007, 10:32am EDT

  • Creeks Contribute Little to River

    Word I'm getting from a source that's not Rick Westcott's e-mail, is that the Creek Nation's contribution to the $111 Million in private funding that will be spent on river projects is voters opt to tax themselves is a paltry 5-million-bucks.

    "Paltry," you ask? "That seems like a pretty [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2007, 7:14am EDT

  • Hot Buzz On Street Bonds

    The big rumor floating around, that seems to be substantiated somewhat by the front page article on streets in the Sunday Tulsa World, is that Kathy Taylor is planning a $375 million bond issue to fix streets.

    If true, I just might support this one. However, word is that [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 2:14pm EDT

  • Is Mayor’s List Of Possible Developers For City Golf Properties An Exclusive Club Of One?

    Kathy Taylor’s announcement that she wants the City Council to agree to close several city owned golf holes in order balance her 2008 fiscal budget, has caused quite a debate in Tulsa. What appears on the surface to be an attempt to either fund the reopening [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2007, 9:28pm EDT

  • South Tulsa Bridge: Breakfast Club?

    Guess who was overseen today, having breakfast at First Watch, near 81st & Lewis Avenue? I have it from a very good source that Public Works Department head Charles Hardt had a very chummy breakfast with Jenks' mayor, Vic Vreeland!

    Wouldn't you love to have been a fly on [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2007, 7:01pm EDT

  • Annexation: Hicks Creates Mock Press Conference

    Media bias often comes not from what is mentioned in a story, but what is not mentioned.

    Yesterday, Dan Hicks called a press conference that was pretty well attended, in attempt to represent lack of citizen support for the city's plan to annex the Tulsa County Fairgrounds.

    The [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2007, 5:14pm EDT

  • Watering Down Immigration Reform

    Rep. Randy Terrill, who has authored the landmark immigration reform measure, HB 1804, which has passed the State House and is waiting to be assigned to a committee in the Senate, was on the Michael Delgiorno show this morning.

    Amongst a lengthy discussion about the bill, Terrill [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2007, 10:10am EDT

  • Park Department: That's Just Not Cricket

    There was a surprisingly interesting exchange between Councilor Roscoe Turner and three employees of the Parks Department who were sent to today's Urban & Economic Development meeting, to address Turner's concerns about a strip of concrete that had been poured in the middle of a baseball field in Maxwell Park.
    [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2007, 12:52pm EDT

  • Randi Miller's Sister Nominated to Oversight Committee

    Not editorializing one way or the other, but am simply guessing that no other media outlet will note this fact.

    District 2 city councilor Rick Westcott nominated Lugenia Cue to serve on the Sales Tax Oversight Committee. Ms. Cue is the sister of former District 2 councilor Randi Miller, [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2007, 10:16am EDT

  • They're Ba-ack!

    Tax increase…tax increase…tax increase!

    Remember that creepy scene in the movie Poltergeist, when little Carole Ann Freeling, played by Heather O’Rourke held her hands on the tube of the family TV, which was showing only “snow,” and announced to her parents' horror the infamous line, “They’re Here?” Remember in [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2007, 12:21pm EDT

  • Rudy McRomney

    Michael Bates has an intriguing piece over on Batesline, outlining how budget restrictions among the various mainstream media outlets might limit any discussion regarding presidential contenders to the the top two or three contenders in each party. I have a bit of a different slant on this possible development. [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2007, 1:50pm EST

  • Hollywood Trivia Quetion

    I came up with this challenging trivia question late last night. See if you can stump your Democrat friends.

    Q: What Hollywood celebrity won an Academy Award for Weird Science?

    A: Al Gore [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2007, 10:51am EST

  • Tulsa Republican Presidential Straw Poll

    Was cleaning out the pockets of some of my sport coats and came across some notes I took during last month's Tulsa County Republican Convention. I had intended to report on the Presidential straw poll results.

    Even though the convention was lightly attended, the results are somewhat illuminating, given [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2007, 10:00am EST

  • KOTV: Link To Marler Story On Illegal Immigration

    Tami Marler, a former classmate of mine in graduate business school, filed her last story as a KOTV reporter on Wednesday night and it was a dandy!

    Marler, who is going on to work in communications for the Tulsa Public Schools, hit the mark in a way local TV [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2007, 2:07pm EST

  • Arena: Budget Must Match Bid Projections

    Bolton's Success Will Be Judged on Matcing Pie-In-The-Sky Bid Numbers

    SMG announced John Bolton as the new general manager for the BOK Center (arena) and the Convention Center. Bolton comes from SMG's Evansville, IN market, where he managed five facilities that are so minor, that they were barely mentioned [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2007, 3:47pm EST

  • FAQ’s Regarding Fairgrounds Annexation

    There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the facts surrounding Tulsa’s proposed annexation of the unincorporated area on which the Tulsa Fairgrounds lies. This is my attempt to add some clarity to what has amounted to being a one-sided argument. I recognized as I got into this, that [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2007, 5:18pm EST

  • Tulsa County Municipal Tax Rates

    The City Councils of Glenpool and Bixby made major shows this week of supporting the County on the issue of Tulsa annexing the land upon which the Fairgrounds sits. Was that neighborly?

    How long ago was it that I and some of my fellow Tulsa city councilors were ripped [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2007, 2:13pm EST

  • Will The Real Tax Champions Please Stand Up?

    A Challenge to Our Three Republican County Commissioners

    I am working on a much longer entry that will go into depth on many of the FAQs regarding annextation. However, I want to note the rhetoric that is being "liberally" bandied about as to whom are the true "conservatives" on [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2007, 1:17pm EST

  • Mayor Sending Staff to Tout Tax Increase

    Mayor Taylor has begun her behind the scenes full-court press to develop support within the City Council for her proposed property tax hike to pay for fire safety.

    "Herronner" has instructed policy staffer, Dr. Monica Barczak, to meet with the various counilors to edify [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2007, 3:53pm EST

  • Glenpool: Can't Say These Folks Lack a Sense of Humor

    The lengths to which the County Commission seem willing to go to prevent the City of Tulsa from annexing the Tulsa Fairgrounds is becoming down right funny.

    The latest is an apparent offer by the City Council of Glenpool designed to entice the County Commission to move the Fairgrounds [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2007, 3:07pm EST

  • Where Is Tulsa's Legal Department on Bixby Bridge?

    Are they lost? Are we being burdened by so many nuisance suits that there are no Tulsa City Attorneys available to help the citizenry in a very public and high-stakes court action?

    The South Tulsa Citizens Coalition (STCC) has a court date on December 20th in their attempt to [...]

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    Posted: December 14, 2006, 3:06pm EST

  • Are "The Channels" All But Dead?

    Very quietly, at two meetings of Tulsa's Chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, the death knells were sounded for the proposed $700 million river development known as “The Channels.”

    The November guest speaker at the Republican Assembly meeting was newly elected County Commissioner John Smaligo. During [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2006, 10:21am EST

  • Bridge Behind Mayor's Legal Department Shake-Up?

    Take a good look at the woman in the photograph to the right, because she might just be the next Tulsa City Attorney and the savior of Infrastructure Ventures, Inc.'s Bixby bridge project, if Mayor Kathy Taylor gets the support she needs from the Tulsa [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2006, 4:24pm EST

  • Fred Jordan Divorced By Wife

    For over a year now, House District 69 candidate Fred Jordan has been selling himself as a former marine who supports conservative family values. However, he has not let voters in on the fact that his wife, Kyndra Brooke Litrell Jordan has filed for and been granted a divorce from [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2006, 1:57pm EST

  • Oh My...Uh...Angelou? Who's Zooming Who?

    Who do the Tulsa Stakeholders think they're fooling?

    KOTV.com is reporting the very impressive impact that the Oklahoma State University system has on Oklahoma's economy.

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ Oklahoma State University has nearly $2 billion in economic impact on the state, a study released Friday [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2006, 10:38am EDT

  • You Might Be a Mid-Town Elitist If...

    As I wrote the previous blog entry, I kept thinking how helpful it might be for all those Mid-Towners who think they're not elitists to have some help from the rest of us in identifying their tendencies. So, marshalling a helpful spirit...and with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy...I offer the following [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2006, 9:40pm EDT

  • Mid-Town + Elitist = Mid-Town Elitist

    Despite the fact that the proponents of the far-fetched project, "The Channels," are asking the taxpayers of Tulsa County to pony up over $600 Million, word has gotten back to me that John-Kelly Warren, the titular leader of these new "visionistas," is stinging over the criticism they have received from [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2006, 12:37am EDT

  • Back From Hiatus

    Yeah...yeah...I know. I haven't been blogging of late.

    Well, I've been busy. No...really...I've been busy.

    Anyway, I'm back and digging. Stay tuned. [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2006, 10:11am EDT
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