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 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...
by Michael Bates | Apr 3, 2023 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
April 4, 2023, is general election day across Oklahoma for school board races and for municipalities that use the default forms of municipal government established by state statute. Many cities with city charters that define a customized government structure still use...
by Michael Bates | Apr 2, 2023 | Ethics, History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
The incumbent and challenger in the Tulsa School Board District 1 race have each raised over $50,000 according to campaign contribution and expenditures reports filed with the Tulsa Public Schools district clerk. As of the March 20, 2023, close of the pre-election...
