It truly has been a wild ride. All those years ago it was received as a wonderful idea to merge all of a league which has been a stable fixture in the regional collegiate athletic landscape since its original founding in 1907 with the upper tier of one that had been existing on borrowed time…
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The name of the city is spelled T-U-L-S-A
Wednesday was a very newsworthy day along this the most conservative stretch of the Mother Road. Our fair city had a visit from a GOP Presidential candidate and his former VP candidate water carrier. Other than their brief presence three miles around the corner and down the street from where I am sitting posting this,…
Continue ReadingWill’s eternal influence
I don’t believe I have ever mentioned on this blog that the other moniker for Old Route 66 the Mother Road is the Will Rogers Memorial Highway. You know you’ve earned a permanent place in the heart and soul of the nation when the Congress of the United States adjourns in your honor on the day…
Continue ReadingMaking Presidential history on Old Route 66!
What a week it has been along this the most conservative segment of Old Route 66! This past Wednesday in the Bryan County seat of Durant in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit that town since Teddy Roosevelt in 1905. Forget the fact that he…
Continue ReadingFarewell to toxic symbolism
It has been a very historic week in America in terms of commemorating notable events, landmark decisions handed down by the highest court in the land and executive orders issued by some southern state governors to remove archaic incendiary emblems from their purview. I myself could feel the tectonic shift of public opinion when the Supreme Court…
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Imagine if you will a camp meeting of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and pagans. Focus on that conceptual image for a moment and you can grasp the essence of the fifth annual Oklahoma Freethought Convention. FreeOK 2015 was held on Saturday, June 20th at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa. This is another of those…
Continue ReadingPride is alive along the Mother Road!
One of the community celebrations that make this the most conservative segment of Old Route 66 habitable took place this past weekend. Yes, the 33rd annual Tulsa Pride celebration attracted thousands to Downtown Tulsa on Saturday afternoon and evening culminating in the Pride Parade. This is an annual festival sponsored by Oklahomans for Equality. Yours truly was…
Continue ReadingThe Oklahoma Standard endures
Like many of my fellow Oklahomans, I have a list of memories of the Oklahoma City Federal Building long before it became the center of the universe twenty years ago for the worst of reasons. Like most other people I know, I never knew its namesake, Alfred P. Murrah, was an old federal judge until…
Continue ReadingThe benefits and non-disaster of legal marijuana
On the way home from work this afternoon I heard the story on NPR of the Attorneys General of the States of Oklahoma and Nebraska filing a lawsuit against Colorado challenging that state’s legalization of marijuana. It seems that the plaintiff state’s AGs have high hopes of US Supreme Court intervention citing the supremacy clause. …
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