Related Before Vanessa Hall-Harper won her District 1 City Council position in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2016, she talked extensively with her soon-to-be constituents and learned that food security was one of the most pressing issues for residents in North Tulsa. That’s why she made it a mission to place a moratorium on dollar stores and bring in healthy food options.
“In engaging with my community, the number one issue of concern that I heard was that we don’t have a grocery store in our community where we can go and shop, that all we have are dollar stores,” said Hall-Harper in a recent phone interview. “It’s something that I didn’t suffer from because I happen to have adequate transportation, so I could go anywhere in Tulsa to shop and get what I want. But obviously, there’s a large segment of my constituents that cannot.”
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Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum says he is not spending much time thinking about the international media coverage of the upcoming Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events, instead focusing on what the anniversary means for Tulsans. I think about this event like when you re mourning as a family when you have the death of a loved one, Bynum said in a video message released Tuesday by City Hall. You re really just concerned about your family and your friends and your neighbors. What people on the periphery have to say about it is of less importance. I know that there will be lots of people talking about it, but this is a time for Tulsa to remember our neighbors and think about how
By: Brooke Griffin
TULSA, Oklahoma -
On Friday, Tulsa’s Community Service Council is holding its latest Equality Indicators event focusing on the topic of “Justice. The city of Tulsa has partnered with the community service council to hold the five-part virtual series of equality indicators events that each rank and measure how well the city is doing on the topics of justice, education, housing, healthcare, and services.
For Friday’s topic of justice, Tulsa only scored a 31 out of 100 due to the drop in two out of the nine factors being scored, that drop comes from the rise in child abuse and domestic violence cases in our area.
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