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.
by Michael Bates | Jun 13, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
This past Saturday morning, after visiting the Greenwood Farmers and Artisans Market, I took some photos of the old Moton (Morton) Health Center complex just west of Rudisill Library, on the north side of Pine Street between Greenwood Avenue and Greenwood Place....
by Michael Bates | Jun 6, 2021 | History, OKGrassroots, Tulsa County
Disappointed with Tulsa Public School’s bloated and inept administration? A “no” vote in Tuesday’s (June 8, 2021) TPS bond election is an effective way to cast a vote of no confidence and register a demand for real change.
