On this week’s episode of Listen Frontier, senior staff writer Kevin Canfield and City Councilor GT Bynum talk about Bynum’s flirtation with the priesthood, meeting his wife and the dam proposal.
The city of Tulsa next week will begin preparing residents for a major change — the closing of Riverside Drive.
A two-mile section of the road — from 21st to 41st streets — will be closed from July 13 to the fall of 2017 to reconstruct the road. Local traffic only will be allowed along Riverside Drive from 35th place to 41st street.
Speaking before a skeptical crowd of constituents gathered at Rudisell Library to hear about the latest river-development proposal, Henderson took on the naysayers who had stood to question how north Tulsa would benefit from building dams in the Arkansas River.
Marq Lewis starts every rally of We The People Oklahoma with a chant: “Why are we marching? We’re marching for peace. We’re marching for justice.” Kelly Kurt reports for The Frontier on the man behind the movement.
City leaders are getting ready to ask Tulsans to pay a big chunk of the $300 million it would cost to build four dams in the Arkansas River, but they won’t tell Tulsans what they plan to build on city-owned property along the river.
I’m talking about REI.
Marq Lewis says We the People Oklahoma collected more than 8,800 signatures seeking a grand jury investigation of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.
River Parks Authority is considering a restaurant built on a pier over the Arkansas River and a “Boat Yard” packed with food trucks, entertainment and a cocktail bar as possible development projects along the west bank of the river.
Jim Orbison is the epitome of a gentleman lawyer if there ever was one, but Wednesday morning he seemed to have had enough.
Nearly an hour into a Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority budget meeting, the tall, white-haired attorney for the authority raised his hand to remind trustees unhappy with the budgeting process – and Tulsa Jail operations in general – that they had another option.
“This authority can totally take control of that (jail) administration, take it from the county, hire staff, do its own financials, do everything … say goodbye to the county,” Orbison said. “I just want that out.”
