by Michael Bates | Sep 28, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Tulsa’s Gathering Place, LLC, has filed a lawsuit in federal court against a family-owned coffeehouse in Shawnee, Oklahoma, 90 miles away. The trademark complaint, filed on Friday, September 24, 2021, in the Western District of Oklahoma, claims that the...
by Michael Bates | Sep 26, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Local (almost), live conservative talk radio has returned to the Tulsa airwaves, on the frequency that was the first full-time talk radio station in Tulsa over 40 years ago. AM 1300 KAKC, owned by iHeartMedia, has rebranded itself as 1300 The Patriot, as of September...
by Michael Bates | Sep 23, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Tomorrow, September 24, 2021, the City of Tulsa Election District Commission will hold a special meetingto consider a set of five proposed plans for redrawing Tulsa’s city council district boundaries for possible presentation for public comment. The proposed...
by Michael Bates | Aug 15, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Junkets to exotic locations promoting the National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact to state legislators continue to make news, seven years after they first came to public notice in the wake of the Oklahoma Senate’s surprising February 2014 vote to approve...
by Michael Bates | Jul 20, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
If you went looking for BatesLine recently and found nothing, it’s because the server was offline from late Tuesday, July 13, 2021, until sometime Wednesday evening, July 14, 2021. According to BatesLine’s hosting provider, the downtime was “due to a...
by Michael Bates | Jul 6, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Newspapers.com has some amazing content that can help to locate long-lost rural places around Tulsa. I was searching for information about Bethel Union School, later known as Paul Revere School (which I wrote about in conjunction with the centennial of Southern Hills...
