- December 29, 2020 at 11:59PM
Michael Wallis: Save the Midland Valley Pedestrian Bridge
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In a recent public letter, Michael Wallis, historian of Route 66, Oklahoma, and the American West, has called on Tulsa government leaders to keep the Midland Valley Pedestrian Bridge over the Arkansas River. Wallis was a member of the advisory committee that considered designs for a replacement for the...
- December 29, 2020 at 11:59PM Michael Wallis: Save the Midland Valley Pedestrian Bridge Click the headline to read the full story.
Edited from the version originally published on December 25, 2012 Merry Christmas to anyone who happens by BatesLine today. As a Holland Hall high school student, I attended and sang in the annual service of Christmas lessons and carols at Trinity Episcopal Church, modeled after the annual Christmas Eve service...
- December 24, 2020 at 11:43PM A bidding prayer for Christmas, A. D. 2020 Click the headline to read the full story.
In 1966 and 1967, a trio of researchers, Glenn White, Bob Healy, and Bob Pinson, published a series of articles in Record Research: The Magazine of Record Information and Statistics, covering the life and career of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The introduction to this four-part series mentioned that...
- December 23, 2020 at 12:59AM Bob Wills discography in Record Research Click the headline to read the full story.
Recently I've returned to the habit of reading a book before bedtime and when eating on my own, leaving aside the digital device and focusing my attention on the printed page. In the past few weeks I've finished Calvin Coolidge's autobiography, Arnold Dallimore's biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a short...
- December 18, 2020 at 11:12AM Charles Spurgeon resources Click the headline to read the full story.
From the Oklahoma Taxpayer Alliance, news on the vindication of the late Owasso City Councilor Patrick Ross in his fight to release a report investigating alleged wrongdoing by City Manager Rodney Ray, whose 20-year tenure ended in 2013 under an ethical cloud but with a hefty severance package from the...
- December 12, 2020 at 09:53PM Owasso city manager malfeasance matter of public interest, court rules Click the headline to read the full story.
Tulsa's Midland Valley Pedestrian Bridge and Zink Lake Dam viewed from the west bank, south of the bridge and dam, February 14, 2016 Resistance is gathering to the plan to demolish the Midland Valley Pedestrian Bridge across the Arkansas River. Although an engineering analysis from 2015 shows that the 110-year-old...
- December 11, 2020 at 06:01PM Preserve the Midland Valley Pedestrian Bridge Click the headline to read the full story. |
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