Tulsa's winter weather plan comes with a few grains of salt. Too few? World file
The mayor is working on a Plan B if we run out of road salt. AP file
Raise your hand if you're sure. AP
The Great Friday Clean Limerick Challenge is trying something new this week -- appearing on Friday.
The mayor help a press conference to say the city didn’t have much salt for street cleaning this winter, but he hoped it wasn’t going to snow that much anyway.
Do we have enough salt? Well, nope.
But the mayor says we can still cope.
We’ll use what we’ve got,
Which isn’t a lot.
Plan B this winter is called hope.
So the City Council got involved and seems to be headed toward spending another $500,000 (which the mayor says we can’t afford) on snow removal.
When snowflakes are going to fall,
And ice is a threat to us all,
Please take your salt shakers,
And any ice breakers,
And haul them all to City Hall.
You might have the stand in line to get into the courthouse because so many people are showing up to file suits challenging the legality of our recently approved state questions. The most recent challenge is to the referendum that requires future voters to show a photo ID before they get their ballots or sign an affidavit affirming their identity before casting a provisional ballot. The measure, putatively design to stop vote fraud, can’t logically work, but that’s OK because no one has ever shown that people voting in the names of other people is much of a problem in Oklahoma anyway.
When I vote I must show an ID
Or sign to affirm that I’m me.
It won’t stop vote fraud,
Which isn’t that odd,
’Cause there is none, but someday might be
State legislators drove through Oklahoma City this week long enough to get sworn in and elect new leaders.
Election results are now through,
The change to the change is now due,
They were sworn in on Monday,
But the lobbyist were there Sunday,
To make sure real changes are few.
I’m pleased to report that a friend of the Great Friday Clean Limerick Challenge submitted this ditty about the struggle between the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and forces inside City Hall over control of that part of the city hotel/motel tax that is used for attracting out-of-town visitors.
Tourism business seems implicit
The city and Chamber complicit
The question remains
And, oh, how it pains
Why won't the danged visitors visit?
