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Here we go again. First Rep. Sally Kern , now an Oklahoma County commissioner. The latest Republican goofball to find dangerous gay people threatening the Oklahoma way of life is Brent Rinehart , an incumbent Oklahoma County commissioner. Reinhart, who is facing a tough reelection battle , is so desperate for votes that he played the "gay card," a favorite tactic of the state's right-wing...
Alternative Tulsa - Tue 4:07 a.m. - 12 clicks 
The always overzealous right-wing talker Michael Savage , heard locally on Tulsa's KRMG AM 740, is at it again. This time, Savage's big mouth is making medical pronouncements without benefit of, well, actual facts. Hey, it's a lot more fun being a conservative gadfly when you don't have to deal with pesky things like facts, fairness, or truth. The incident in question concerns autis...
Alternative Tulsa - Tue 4:07 a.m. - 9 clicks
In the heat of Tulsa in late July , the readers over at AltTulsa like to hide out in an air-conditioned space with a good book. Our most recent volume was a old paperback collection of Raymond Carver stories with a great title, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver, an Oregon native who died some years ago, was also a poet and his stories are as spare and tightly construct...
Alternative Tulsa - Sun 6:04 p.m. - 12 clicks
Congratulations to our friends at Global Gardens for the great weekend story in the Tulsa World . As we have previously noted (see AT's June 23 posting), Global Gardens is a program that introduces low-income students to the pleasures of planting and growing. The photo above was taken at this year's Brookside Herb Festival . Read Saturday's Tulsa World story here . For more ...
Alternative Tulsa - Jul 16 - 4 clicks
We have no inside information, but the Tulsa School Board may be ready for a change at the top. We're talking about embattled TPS Superintendent Michael Zolkoski's future as Tulsa's public school leader, which may be winding down. That's because the Tulsa School Board will be meeting Monday night behind closed doors to discuss Dr. Z's future. According to a story in today's Tulsa World ...
Alternative Tulsa - Jul 16 - 6 clicks
B reaking news tonight : Dr. Michael Zolkoski , the embattled superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools, will leave his position in October. The decision was announced tonight after a meeting of the Tulsa School Board. TPS will pay Zolkoski a cool $400,000 as part of his contract termination. As readers of the Tulsa World know, Dr. Z's tenure at TPS has been marked by a number of ...
Alternative Tulsa - Jul 16 - 5 clicks
O klahama's junior U.S. senator, Dr. Tom Coburn , prides himself on his principles. Like his Oklahoma senate colleague, former Tulsa mayor Jim Inhofe , Coburn is nothing if not stubborn in support of his ideas, even when he's wrong. That's the latest dilemma for Dr. Coburn, who finds himself now tagged as "the senate's least powerful man." Unfortunately, the label fits. The problem is C...
Alternative Tulsa - Jul 16 - 6 clicks
Oklahoma Republicans love to talk about supporting the troops . Too bad their talk is, to put it plainly, pure bullcrap. We're talking about the recent bill that dramatically improved benefits for our vets , all those men and women the GOP claims to support. The bill passed the House the other day by a vote of 256-166. The President—who vocally opposed the bill— suddenly reversed course and...
Alternative Tulsa - Jul 16 - 6 clicks
Today's bad news for the Republican Party, spoken on Bill Moyers Journal by former Republican Oklahoma Rep. Mickey Edwards: The Republican Party is not healthy. ...
Alternative Tulsa - Jul 16 - 6 clicks
