Records show links between Okmulgee County, Glanz
In neighboring Okmulgee County, where the district attorney has been assigned to investigate alleged wrongdoing by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office…
Get Ready: Stretch of Riverside Drive to be closed soon
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.
Grand jury inquest: More than 6,000 signatures validated seeking investigation of TCSO
Days ahead of their self-imposed deadline, county election board officials broke some news Tuesday afternoon: 6,647 signatures requesting a grand jury investigation of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office had been verified and turned over to the court clerk’s office.
Marching for justice: The leader behind Tulsa’s grassroots group trying to oust Sheriff
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.
More than 8,800 signatures gathered for petition seeking grand jury investigation of TCSO
“We’re confident,” organizer Marq Lewis said. “A lot of hard work went into this. A lot of hard work by a handful of volunteers who believed in the process and believed they could make change, believed that they could change things.”
Listen Frontier: Marq Lewis talks We The People, grand jury petition process
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.
Big changes could be coming to Arkansas River’s west bank
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.
Tempers flare at meeting over spending of jail funds
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.”
