
Tulsa Election 2022: First day of filing
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Today (June 13, 2022) was the first day of the three-day filing period for the 2022 City of Tulsa election for City Council and City Auditor. All nine City Council races will be on the ballot. The filing period continues through 5 p.m. Wednesday. The City of Tulsa filing packet...
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The last surviving Howard Johnson's restaurant, located in Lake George, New York, was recently found to have closed, evidently for good. An enthusiast, Alyssa Kelly, reported on Facebook over Memorial Day weekend that there were cobwebs on the door, a for-lease sign out front, and all the furnishings and...
![]() Howard Johnson's on Oklahoma turnpikes Click the headline to read the full story.
An overview of the Republican primary field to complete Jim Inhofe's unexpired term in the U. S. Senate, with links to campaign websites, FEC reports, and social media profiles.
![]() Oklahoma Senate 2022: Web links for Republican candidates for Inhofe's unexpired term Click the headline to read the full story.
Before Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, before state highway officials collaborated to create a national highway numbering system in 1926, motorists traveling cross-country followed turn-by-turn directions contained in the Official Automobile Blue Book. These books are a time capsule of transportation history, not only mentioning routes, but road conditions, locations of...
![]() Tulsa in the 1920 Official Automobile Blue Book Click the headline to read the full story.
SB962, which would move school board general elections to November, has cleared the Oklahoma House of Representatives Rules Committee and is awaiting action by the whole house. The bill does not alter terms of office and does not make the elections partisan. The bill does not change the date for...
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This morning I spoke to the weekly meeting of City Elders about the recent school board elections, the Democratic candidates who won despite higher Republican turnout, and the connections of the donors who made their campaigns possible. Here are some links to further reading on the ideas and people I...
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Campaign contribution and expenditure reports from the recent school board election in Union, the school district that straddles the Tulsa-Broken Arrow boundary, include some names of prominent Democratic donors familiar from campaign filings in the two 2022 school board races in the Tulsa district. As reported on his pre-primary campaign...
![]() 2022 Union School Board campaign contributions: Democrat donors back McNeil Click the headline to read the full story. 2022 Tulsa School Board campaign contributions: Keller Lamkin backed by leftist establishment donors4/4/2022
Campaign contribution reports show that the two registered Democrats running for Tulsa school board, District 4 incumbent Shawna Keller and Susan Lamkin, running for the open District 7 seat, are heavily backed by Tulsa's leftist establishment -- the band of philanthropists, politicians, and their hangers-on who hate Oklahoma's conservative values...
![]() 2022 Tulsa School Board campaign contributions: Keller, Lamkin backed by leftist establishment donors Click the headline to read the full story.
Published April 3, 2022, postdated to remain at the top of the page until the polls close on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Tuesday, April 5, 2022, is general election day for K-12 school board seats in Oklahoma. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Seats on technology...
![]() 2022 Tulsa School Board general election: BatesLine ballot card Click the headline to read the full story.
Why would any conservative celebrate regressive taxes to support billionaires who kow-tow to Chinese Communists and politically correct causes?
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