President Donald J. Trump today announced formation of a Presidential Task Force on Protecting Native American Children in the Indian Health Service System. He charged the Task Force with investigating systemic breakdown that failed to prevent a predatory pediatrician (now in Federal prison) from sexually assaulting children in his capacity as a doctor in the Indian Health Service. U.S. Attorney Trent Shores will co-chair the Presidential Task Force.

Opinion: The name alone communicates the issue.

This weekend self-supremacy will be on full display at the Tulsa County Republican Convention and it is with great joy I find myself attending  and voting without an agenda beyond Constitutional governance. I can be then, as former-mayor Kathy Taylor Lobeck once noticed I greatly enjoy; an equal opportunity aggravator.

Editor’s Intro: The New Year is a time to review and here we revisit how Tulsa Today’s Publisher began in journalism. Later he included stints as a daily reporter (city beat), talk show host, Vision 2025 public information manager and then communications consulting and management. This is what the Columbia Journalism Review, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University published in 1987. The headline: Who’s teaching whom at Tulsa Junior College? Rebecca L. Martin writing for CJR begins:

David Arnett was more interested in business than journalism when, at age thirty-two, he decided to go back to school. Continue reading →

With application season in full gear and college living costs reaching $26,200 per student for nine to 12 months, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst College Towns & Cities in America as a follow-up on its College & University Rankings. Tulsa is the 10th worst for students.  Continue reading →