by Michael Bates | Aug 5, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Tulsa is the focus of another recent article from a UK newspaper website: A story in the Guardian Online about the impact of expressway construction on Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, and the possibility of reviving the neighborhood by removing the north leg of...
by Michael Bates | Aug 4, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Tulsa Public Schools made the Mail Online on July 30, 2023, as one of 7 school districts in the US with active contracts for Confucius Classrooms, a propaganda outreach of the Chinese Communist Party. China is funding America’s public schools to the tune of $17...
by Michael Bates | Aug 1, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Here are seven reasons to vote no on all four City of Tulsa ballot propositions at the special election next Tuesday, August 8, 2023
by Michael Bates | Jul 23, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
City of Tulsa residents will vote on a new sales tax on August 8, 2023. Why are city officials pushing for a new tax more than two years before the current tax expires? Click to read ballot language, ballot resolutions, and lists of “specific”...
by Michael Bates | Jul 8, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
I have finally gotten around to reading Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, in anticipation of the Martin Scorsese film to be released in October. I’m about halfway through, and I was skimming ahead. (It’s OK. I already knew who the bad guys were.)...