Tacos 4 Life, an Arkansas-grown taco restaurant with a mission to help end world starvation, will open their first location in Oklahoma in Tulsa in mid-2019. The news comes after the brand’s growth to three other states in the past year. “It is a special accomplishment for our team when we have the opportunity to…
If Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy ever wants to stop being a football coach, his next career could be as a philosopher. His recent comments about “liberalism” and “snowflakes” touched off criticism, including the ultra-liberal Washington Post. When asked about football players who transfer to another college because they don’t get to play as much as…
Mayor G.T. Bynum wants to do away with “partisan politics.” It’s just too divisive in his view. Maybe he should register as an Independent instead of a Republican so that the Republicans who voted for him would know more about where he stands. “In Tulsa, people still matter more than partisanship,” Bynum said. That sounds…
The Girl Scouts of the United States of America are mad at the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA, in a move to be more “gender friendly,” have dropped “Boy” from their name and now go by “Scouts of America.” This was an effort to get girls to join what used to be the Boy…
I first met Dan Keating in 2004 when he was instrumental in raising funds for the first Senate campaign for former Sen. Tom Coburn. We met but we didn’t speak a lot. Not too much later, Dan asked me to join him for lunch. I didn’t know what to expect. I thought he might be…
No. 5 Oklahoma must win three straight games against Top 10 opponents to win a national title. The potential three-game gauntlet begins at 11 a.m. Saturday as the Sooners try to defend their Big 12 title in a rematch with No. 9 Texas in AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys) in the Big 12…
The football season is not over yet for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Despite losing 24-31 at TCU Saturday, the up-and-down Cowboys ended with a 6-6 overall record (3-6 in the Big 12) – good for a tie for seventh place in the conference and bowl eligibility. OSU won’t know their bowl destination until later this…
It was a rough season, one that the University of Tulsa football team is likely happy to put behind them, however, it ended on a very positive note on Saturday as the Golden Hurricane beat SMU, 27-24, in front of 17,159 fans at H.A. Chapman Stadium. It was the final game for 19 Golden Hurricane…
Governor-elect Kevin Stitt announced formation of Oklahoma’s Turnaround, the transition team for the Stitt administration. The transition team will work with Governor-elect Stitt to recruit Oklahomans to serve in a Stitt administration and to build out Oklahoma’s Turnaround transition team to include issue-centered advisory committees on the following seven topics: education, economic growth, government efficiency,…
The Tulsa City Council has approved a huge tax increase that will mostly be spent on projects chosen by the chamber of commerce. The hotel tax increase could be delayed or stopped as some hotel owners are threatening legal action because they think the plan was made without consulting them. The Tourism Improvement District, created…