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.)...
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.)...
by Michael Bates | Jun 15, 2023 | History, Music, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
An apt remark by P. Andrew Sandlin: Church leaders: if your praise band plays songs 90% of your congregation can’t sing easily or enthusiastically, you don’t have a church music program; you have a musical performance program. Let me urge you to start a...
