The proposal would also increase utility payments for Tulsa households. Nichols wants to invest in streetlights, public safety and infrastructure.
Author Archives: Phillip Jackson
Phillip Jackson is the government reporter at the Tulsa Flyer. Phillip’s journalism career has taken shape at both national and local levels. After graduating from Hampton University, he went on to cover City Hall and the district attorney’s office in Philadelphia, police and breaking news in Memphis and criminal justice at the Baltimore Sun before becoming a social justice reporter for HuffPost. He is a proud alum of the 2024 National Press Foundation’s Paul Miller Fellowship and the 2021 Reporting on Criminal Justice in the Age of George Floyd Fellowship. Now, his reporting is focused on how decisions by government officials affect Tulsans.
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Tulsa’s tourism leaders put their support behind hotel tax hike on August ballot
Business leaders say Tulsa is leaving revenue on the table by not raising its lodging tax rate in the past 40 years. A hike could be on the ballot this summer.
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Tulsa will pause new data center construction for 9 months after council vote
The proposal was reduced from a year to nine months. Planning commissioners are still set to consider Project Anthem in east Tulsa April 1.
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Tulsa has a citywide sidewalk shortage. Residents say it’s time for that to change.
Tulsa has long tried to solve its sidewalk shortcomings. But the flurry of policy changes hasn’t led to a long-term solution.
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In Tulsa’s newest housing investment, which communities could benefit the most? Developers chime in
As city officials figure out where to spend $47 million in housing investment, Tulsans say they don’t want underinvested parts of the city forgotten.
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Tulsans point to police shootings and past payouts in new calls for an independent monitor
The City of Tulsa was meant to get an independent police monitor under the previous mayor, but the effort stalled.
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Tulsa mayor’s sales tax proposal is all but dead, with an unclear timeline of return
Councilors pushed against Mayor Monroe Nichols’ proposed sales tax hike last year. Now they’re shifting attention to a hotel/motel tax increase, amid other revenue options.
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Sand Springs council votes 6-1 to allow giant data center along Highway 97
Close to 300 people in the crowd reacted with both jeers and cheers.
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80 new units coming to downtown Tulsa, with $2.8M in city support
The new complex at the corner of 3rd Street and Denver Avenue will have at least 13 affordable units as part of a broader effort to revitalize downtown housing.
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Here’s where homeless Tulsans can find shelter during upcoming snow storm
The city is opening shelters and sending outreach workers to bring unhoused people — and their animals — inside during freezing weather.
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Coweta planning commission denies data center proposal. Now it heads to a council vote.
While planning commissioners denied a zoning change for the controversial Project Atlas, it could still earn approval through a Feb. 2 council vote.
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Leave your vape at home. New law makes driving with marijuana in the car illegal, yours or not.
If anyone inside a vehicle in Oklahoma is caught with unsealed marijuana or marijuana products, the driver will face penalties.