by Jamison Faught | Sep 15, 2021 | History, Muskogee Politico, OKGrassroots
Still Reason to Celebrate the 1889 Land RunBy Tyler WilliamsonIn a telling example of the outrage mob, cancel culture, and the deep-seated need to get offended at everything, the 1889 Land Run has been canceled. You may remember the controversy surrounding Oklahoma...
by Jamison Faught | Sep 11, 2021 | History, Muskogee Politico, OKGrassroots
Today we mark twenty years since the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. I was eleven at the time, and this was the defining world event of my childhood. We watched the memorial services on television this morning, much like we watched the events unfold on that...
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...
by Michael Bates | Jun 29, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
You have five more days (Wednesday, June 30, 2021, to Sunday, July 4, 2021) to visit Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum, before the museum, as you’ve known it for the last 57 years, goes away forever.
