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Posted: 4:58 a.m. Friday, Aug. 6, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 8/06/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • The Tulsa City Council  decided to make a formal ethics complaint against Mayor Bartlett Thursday night over his use of free legal advice from attorney Joel Wohlgemuth. He's in private practice, but works as a contract attorney for the city.
  • US-75 closing at I-44 junction starting Friday night -- All lanes of northbound US-75 will be closed at the I-44 junction from 7 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday as part of a bridge deck project. All northbound US-75 traffic will be routed to the eastbound I-44 exit.
  • KOTV: Mayor Dewey Bartlett announced Thursday that he planned to restore the pay cuts agreed to by Tulsa Firefighters, giving them back the 5.2% pay cut they voluntarily gave up. Bartlett said the adjustment would cost $300,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year, and it appeared the City now has the money to restore the previous cuts. The restoration would come September 1, just as the city plans to restore highway lighting.
  • KOTV: No Tulsa City Councilors will pay for the lawyers defending them against a lawsuit. Taxpayers will pay the legal fees of two councilors, while the others have lawyers who are working for free. The council is being sued over a possible violation of the open meetings act. It is standard practice for the City to cover the costs of attorneys representing employees who are being sued in their official capacity. The City Council approved requests from Councilors GT Bynum and Jim Mautino to have their legal fees paid by the City. The other seven councilors are getting free legal advice and the council voted to officially accept the service as a donation to the City. None of the lawyers used by the Councilors are employed by the City of Tulsa.
  • GAS JUMPS UP from $2.53 to $2.59 in Tulsa.
  • The Democratic-led Senate voted largely along party lines, 63-37, to confirm the former Harvard Law School dean as the fourth female justice in U.S. history and the 112th high court member. Five Republicans vote "yea." Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Judd Gregg, Richard G. Lugar, Olympia J. Snowe...
  • POLITICO: When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out his opposition to Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination, someone in the chamber appeared to be moving around in his chair, gasping and rolling his eyes. It was Sen. Al Franken. Moments before Kagan's confirmation vote Thursday, the Minnesota Democrat was presiding over the Senate -- and the Kentucky Republican thought the freshman senator was mocking his speech. Upon the conclusion of his remarks, a very irritated McConnell removed his microphone, approached the dais and confronted the former comedian. "This isn't 'Saturday Night Live,' Al," McConnell told Franken sternly, according to people who overheard the exchange. Franken later apologized to McConnell.
  • Russia, the world's third wheat exporter, Thursday banned grain exports for the next four-and-a-half months due to a record drought that has destroyed millions of hectares (acres) of its land. Wheat futures shot up to new two-year highs on commodities markets after the sudden announcement from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin raised concerns about global grain supplies.
  • It's hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red. So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again. Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license. NEW: Oregon official apologizes to family after inspectors shut down 7-yr-old girl's lemonade stand.
  • The U.S. Postal Service reported a $3.5 billion loss in its most recent quarter Thursday, as mail volume plummets and retiree health care costs mount. The USPS, a self-supporting government agency that receives no tax dollars, said operating revenue declined 1.8% to $16 billion during the fiscal 2010 third quarter compared to a year earlier, while operating expenses spiked 4.2% to $19.5 billion.
  • It's a conspiracy theory worthy of the "X-Files," and it goes like this: Churchill, then the prime minister, apparently ordered a cover-up of an encounter between a Royal Air Force bomber and an unidentified flying object during World War II. The reason: Churchill feared that news of the incident would create public panic and a loss of faith in religion. The Daily Telegraph explains that Churchill is reported to "have made the orders during a secret war meeting with U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower, the then commander of the Allied Forces, at an undisclosed location in America during the latter part of the conflict." He ordered that the information remain secret for a period of 50 years.
  • Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean has entered the race to become president of Haiti, jetting into the impoverished Caribbean country on a private plane and asking Haitians to give him "power for change."
  • The Japanese city of Hiroshima, reduced to ashes by a U.S. nuclear bomb in 1945, holds its annual commemoration of that attack on Friday, but this will be the first year that a U.S. representative will take part. Aging Hiroshima A-bomb survivors want Obama visit
  • Koua Fong Lee, a Laotian immigrant who served 2½ years of an eight-year prison sentence following a crash in his 1996 Toyota Camry that killed three people, was released from prison today after a judge granted him a new trial and a Minnesota prosecutor announced she would not pursue one. Koua, who is now 32 years old, says that a problem with his Toyota's brakes caused the car to accelerate rather than slow down as he exited an interstate highway in St. Paul, Minn., on his way home from church. Lee's car slammed into one that had come to a stop in front of him, killing three of his passengers.
  • A central Florida woman who was arrested after her shirt got wet at a kiddie splash park in Tavares is suing the city for violating her rights. The incident that provoked the lawsuit occurred in April when Janet Lovett and her husband took their 7-year-old son, who is autistic, to the Children's Splash Park in Tavares. While she was in the park, Lovett was splashed by water, which soaked the front of her white T-shirt and made her padded bra visible. She was ultimately approached by an individual [who] professed to be a city employee and [told] she was not appropriately dressed for the park. He told her she would have to change into a bathing suit or some other clothing.
  • A black man who went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributor calmly told a 911 operator that it was "a racist place" and that he "handled the problem" but wished he had shot more people. Omar Thornton called 911 after shooting 10 co-workers - eight fatally - on Tuesday morning at Hartford Distributors Inc. He introduced himself as "the shooter over in Manchester" and said he was hiding in the building, but he would not say where.
  • Washington DC - It might have missed the eyes and ears of the general public that it is no longer legal to send tobacco products to deployed troops. That is the unintended consequence of the recent PACT Act - Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act-2009. The new restrictions were signed by President Obama, March 31, 2010. Its now the law. Here's the deal: Tobacco products can be sent to APO (Army Post Office) and FPO (Fleet Post Office) addresses only by Express Mail. The glitch is that most deployed service members can't get Express Mail.
  • A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, citing the parents' own disabilities and the risk of serious injury to their children. The state removed Heath and Deborah Campbell's three small children from their home in January 2009. A month earlier, the family drew attention when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for their son, Adolf Hitler Campbell. He and siblings JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell have been in foster care.
 
 
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