by Michael Bates | May 17, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
I’ve been asked to give a lecture to a civics class on City of Tulsa government. Below are the collection of links from which my presentation was drawn: Oklahoma Municipal Code (Oklahoma Statutes, Title XI, Cities and Towns) City of Tulsa charter (Municode) City...
by Michael Bates | May 1, 2023 | Counties and Districts, History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
First-ever Wayback Machine snapshot of BatesLine.com, from August 5, 2003 Twenty years ago today at 6:01 am, the first blog entry at batesline.com came into being, an automatically generated entry proclaiming, “MovableType 2.63 has been successfully...
by Michael Bates | Apr 30, 2023 | Culture, Education, History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
A recent tweet from Jeremy Tate, founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test (CLT): Classical education is fundamental an educational [sic] it what it means to be fully human. It is not a politically conservative alternative to the already politically hijacked...
by Kenny Bob Tapp | Apr 21, 2023 | CD03, Cimarron County, News, OKGrassroots, Oklahoma House, Tapp into Common Sense
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America“Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer”For Immediate ReleaseBy: R-CALF USA Field Director Karina JonesContact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill...
by Michael Bates | Apr 15, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Tonight I attended Augustine Christian Academy’s middle-school production of Annie (Jr.). As is always the case at ACA, the production was characterized by excellence and a lot of heart. It hit me that no one involved in the production (except the director)...
by Michael Bates | Apr 13, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Some thoughts on the April 4, 2023, school board and municipal results, from my live-tweet thread. (ThreadReaderApp unroll here.) At 7:36 pm, early results in the Tulsa school board election came from 4 of the 18 precincts in District 1, all east of the river (and...
