Home » Archive

Articles tagged with: Tulsa

[11 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 429 views]

From The Tulsa World:

City Councilor John Eagleton filed a protest Monday in Tulsa County District Court to contest the validity of an initiative petition that seeks nonpartisan municipal elections.

Eagleton contends that the petition is “invalid on its face” because it doesn’t contain the warning clause required by law to keep it “free from the taint of duplicate, false, fraudulent and unauthorized signatures.”

Eagleton also states in the protest that City Clerk Mike Kier used the wrong election to determine the number of signatures necessary for the petition to be determined sufficient.

Read the rest.

Read the full story »
[4 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 395 views]

From The Tulsa World:

The Tulsa 2020 Committee on Tuesday presented the City Council with the idea of the city making a bid to host the 2020 summer Olympic games.

“A lot of you are probably thinking what I thought the first time I heard this — ‘Tulsa? Olympics? Are you out of your mind,’” said committee member Michael Jones, an attorney. “That’s exactly what everyone said about Atlanta when they started proposing the same thing.”

Read the rest.


Read the full story »