Mayor G.T. Bynum has hired Jed Cochran as the “Chief of Intergovernmental Relations” for the City of Tulsa beginning Sept. 16. Cochran will coordinate regional, state, federal and tribal relations for the city, and will be a Veterans Affairs liaison. Cochran will also help develop and manage state, federal and private foundation grants. Cochran previously…
You are digging yourself a pit that could eventually cave in on you and the City of Tulsa. I am referring specifically to the police oversight board and the search for the alleged “mass graves” resulting from the 1921 Tulsa race riot. The Police Oversight Board The police oversight board will not result in a…
Perhaps Mayor G.T. Bynum knows little about the work for integration in the 1950s. The goal was to offer equal rights. You know, “separate but equal” didn’t work too well. To me, it is puzzling – or are there other motives at work here? Will we see groups formed and paid funds by Tulsa citizens?…
Mayor G.T. Bynum is proposing a vote on a $639,000,000.00 tax increase to expand the size and cost of city government. Tulsans pay a sales tax of 8.517 percent with 4.5 percent going to the state, .367 percent to Tulsa County and 3.65 percent to the city. The State of Oklahoma has an average 8.92…
At least five city councilors – Lori Decter Wright, Kara Joy McKee, Crista Patrick, Ben Kimbro and Cass Fahler – fully support the Homosexual Agenda. They are so supportive of homosexuality that they marched in the recent “Gay Pride Parade” in Downtown Tulsa. Councilor Jeannie Cue didn’t march but sent a representative. Mayor G.T. Bynum…
Mayor G.T. Bynum has hired Krystal Reyes as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City of Tulsa effective immediately. The Office of Resilience and Equity records human rights’ complaints and uses “equality indicators” to address “racial disparity.” Reyes was director of community engagement for the Division of Family and Child Health at the New…
The City of Tulsa has a better score than last year on the 2019 Equality Indicators report. Big deal. This report really means nothing. It is an effort by liberal officials – mostly registered Republicans – to make the public think that something is being done to make Tulsa’s minority populations feel at ease. The…
Mayor G.T. Bynum has revealed his new city budget, with is $845,800,000.00 and includes $100,000 for the “first phase” of an investigation of the possibility of mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. That riot was May 31-June 1, 1921, and dozens of deaths were confirmed while most of the Greenwood Business District was…
Mayor G.T. Bynum and the nine city councilors are relentless in their quest to grow municipal government. The latest boondoggle is the effort by the city to pour millions into a BMX complex in Downtown Tulsa. The first step was to talk voters into approving a $15 million tax increase in 2016. This was a…
After convincing voters in 2016 to raise $15 million for BMX, now city officials are raising another $8 million for the private project. All except a $1.5 million grant from the Hardesty Foundation will come from government funds. “The citizens of Tulsa are making a significant investment in this facility…” said Tulsa Mayor G. T….