Tulsa Topics

In the “ideas so simple I should of thought of it” category:

From KOTV.com: “Crime Crackdown Working”

Last month, the Tulsa Police Department started the "Safe City Initiative". For 30 days, Tulsa police have kept tabs on known bad guys, individual apartment complexes and neighborhoods with high crime, and bars and nightclubs tied to crime.

”The whole police department is engaged in fighting crime. Crime is down. I know our guys are making the difference,” says Tulsa Police Captain Matt Kirkland.

Wow what a new and novel concept…..  having the police department fight crime.  Hopefully they will continue to do this.  Even if the river tax doesn’t pass.

In the “I want to be adopted by those folks” category:

From Philly.com: “Scandal Brewing at Oral Roberts U.”

The university jet was used to take one daughter and several friends on a senior trip to Orlando, Fla., and the Bahamas. The $29,411 trip was billed to the ministry as an “evangelistic function of the president.”

In the “figuratively, but not literally” category:

From USA Today: “Barber commits suicide in front of city council after zoning request denied”

And we thought Tulsa’s zoning process was traumatic.

In the “slower than molasses” category:

From Hoosier Ag Today: Farm Bill Funding Advances, Farm Bill Policy Still In Turmoil

Monday is the day we observe Columbus Day, In Washington, Congress will take the next two weeks to observe Columbus Day.

It takes Congress two weeks to observe one day?  No wonder nothing gets done on the hill.  I can just imagine how long the Twelve Days of Christmas will take.

In the “cause and effect” category:

From Boston.com: US, Iran play with fire

but never fear……

From the northwestern.com: Fire prevention week starts Sunday