Mayor-elect G.T. Bynum’s staff is young and diverse. It will include four women, two African Americans and a Hispanic as well as one former Tulsa mayor: Kathy Taylor.
Frontier editor Ziva Branstetter and contributor Barry Friedman run down the various state questions on our ballot, and check in on the race for president.
Ten ethics complaints have been filed against city councilors since 2012. In every instance, the complaints were found to be unsubstantiated or councilors were found to have acted properly.
Mayor-elect G.T. Bynum goes (somewhat) undercover to quiz a group of Tulsans on several city factoids. How much did they know about Tulsa?
The University of Tulsa, in partnership with private and public entities, created a steering committee to identify a firm to assess the area’s mental health care needs and come up with a 10-year plan to address them.
“I will remind you, the poultry companies put arsenic in the feed for decades…These decisions are dictated by the companies who don’t give a damn what goes into the water in Oklahoma.”
State Question 777 would give farmers and ranchers an additional — and some argue unprecedented — level of protection by prohibiting the Legislature from passing laws that would restrict farming and ranching practices “without a compelling state interest.”
Iron Gate’s application for a special exception to the zoning code to build a new soup kitchen and grocery pattern near downtown is likely to be heard Nov. 17