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Interesting. I looked up the tail number on Flight Radar 24 and Flight Aware and it shows a couple of flights around Shreveport, one of which was from Shreveport to Tulsa, and then three or four short flights around Tulsa. All of these were April 11th and 12th and nothing since.

Looking at departures and arrivals for TIA there's not much if anything between about 10 PM and 2:30 AM. I don't know how much traffic there is out of Riverside after dark, so the air space is quite empty over Tulsa at night. It could be that they broadcast their transponder to ATC but it's not publicly relayed. I know that when F-35's and others fly out of Luke AFB just west of where I live they don't relay their transponders to either Flight Radar or Flight Aware but they do transmit to local ATC. because they do cross the far western edge of the pattern over Phoenix.

I don't think legally TPD could fly dark, no lights or transponder, regardless of what the traffic level is over Tulsa.

Tulsa bought a police helicopter with the promise of no more deadly high-speed pursuits after a family was killed in 1990
(https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/history/throwback-tulsa-40-block-police-pursuit-left-3-dead-in-1990/article_a5cf3605-fa37-52ac-9dbd-ef0d9ffb2e04.html).

This month, Tulsa added a third helicopter.


TULSA, Okla. — A new helicopter is their eye in the sky.
It is an Airbus AS 3503B, or in simpler terms, a really fancy helicopter.

"No longer is night a cloak for the bad guys," Chief helicopter pilot Byron Barnhart said.
That is thanks to what they call the “night sun," a spotlight with the power of 40 million candles, and the $600,000 camera up front.

While Barnhart is in the air, he "can see you just as plain as we're seeing you now," he said during an interview with 2 News Oklahoma.
"It’s not just humans. Barnhart says the camera can pick up the VIN of cars. They typically fly 500-700 feet in the air."

Unlike the older white one, the black paint job is meant to match new squad cars, but that's not all.
"We are trying to make the aircraft a little more stealthy," Barnhart said.

The final bill was about $5 million.
https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/an-outstanding-bird-tulsa-police-department-debuts-new-helicopter

Might explain what has been flying around at night without a collision-avoidance ADS-B transponder.

We have a lot of gullible people who actually are not at all interested in participating in a democracy.

U.S. Sen. James Lankford isnt happy with the Postmaster General whose only qualifications for the job was being a major Trump donor.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is no doubt aware that Lankford almost sunk Trump's "border crisis" campaign by supporting an actual solution.

"Postal Service officials said the agency’s 10-year reorganization calls for items mailed in Tulsa to be trucked to Oklahoma City for processing, with those for delivery in Tulsa trucked back.

At the same time, the Processing and Distribution Center at 2132 S. 91st East Ave. is to be remodeled and reequipped, apparently to handle parcels for eastern Oklahoma.

DeJoy said Tuesday that the reorganization will be “paused” this year so as not to disrupt elections — a matter of particular interest to some."
https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/postmaster-general-gives-few-specifics-on-tulsa-postal-center/article_206b5a58-fc3e-11ee-9774-23e83e9ce8ba.html

[House Bill 3098, authored by Senator Jessica Garvin and Representative Toni Hasenbeck]

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — House Bill 3098, authored by Senator Jessica Garvin and Representative Toni Hasenbeck, could criminalize common STIs and turn thousands of Oklahomans into felons.

Because of the broad language, rather than encouraging Oklahomans to get tested, treated, and reduce the spread of STIs, House Bill 3098 could make the problem worse.
HPV is one of the infections HB 3098 would criminalize. According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, 85% of Oklahomans will have an HPV infection in their lifetime.

This bill passed through the House with 78 votes in favor and only 14 against.

https://ktul.com/news/local/house-bill-criminalizing-common-stis-could-turn-thousands-of-oklahomans-into-felons-legislature-lawmakers-senate-testing-3098-state-department-of-health-hpv-infection

FWIW, I read on Wiki about the BOk tower and it says that John Williams vision was two 25 story towers to resemble WTC 1&2 but having double the expense in elevators made him go with a single tower.

I can see the bait and switch tactic, wouldn't surprise me at all. I will say that if it's built to it's proposed height you'll be able to know where OKC is from just about any direction, much like the giant cross in Groom TX. It's only 200 feet tall and I've spotted it at night from almost 20 miles away.

I looked up the renderings for the tower in relation to the proposed new arena and also see that it sits between the existing arena, the new one and the ball park and right off Bricktown, and none of the projects are reliant on the other.

I wonder if they will have motion sickness pill dispensers on the upper floors for windy days.

There's a lot that has been said about it over on OKCTalk.

Basically, it looks like a bait and switch. The actual project that gets developed will be far smaller. The giant tower is to stir up interest and investment and will get phased out/sized down later on.

It's still going to be a potentially massive project for Bricktown/OKC. If you delete the giant tower, it's still several towers of apartments, office space, retail, etc.

I think that happened with the BOK Tower here.  Propose it as nearly a clone of the World Trade Center (sizewize, same architect also), then when people say 'wha?' compromise.

Fla. Gov. DeSantis signs controversial laws limiting oversight of police.
First Amendment Foundation Executive Director Bobby Block said the bill's language was vague and unlikely to hold up in court.
"We find the law is highly discretionary and would enable responders to order reporters and citizens with smartphones to stop video or audio recording, or simply observing, in violation of their constitutional rights."

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/04/13/ron-desantis-signs-police-oversight-bills/7291713027759/

I thought we couldn't do any worse than Mary Fallin, then Stitt came along and said 'hold my beer'.  Sheesh.

GREENWOOD Dist. – The officer who fatally shot Black Tulsa resident Terence Crutcher will not face retribution for the 2016 slaying. A federal judge dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by Crutcher’s estate against Officer Betty Shelby and the City of Tulsa on Monday.

On September 16, 2016, 40-year-old Terence Crutcher was experiencing car troubles on a Tulsa street. Former Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby was responding to a domestic disturbance call when she found Crutcher’s car stalled in the roadway on 36th Street and Lewis Avenue in North Tulsa, a predominately Black neighborhood.

Crutcher was approaching the vehicle when Shelby shouted orders at him to show his hands. Shortly after the incident began, a second officer, Tyler Turnbough, arrived on the scene and drew his taser gun. As Crutcher walked towards the driver’s side window of his car with his hands raised, both officers fired at him. The second officer only used his taser while Shelby used her gun, and her shots ultimately killed Crutcher.

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2024/04/15/terence-crutcher-civil-lawsuit-dismissed/

There's a lot that has been said about it over on OKCTalk.

Basically, it looks like a bait and switch. The actual project that gets developed will be far smaller. The giant tower is to stir up interest and investment and will get phased out/sized down later on.

It's still going to be a potentially massive project for Bricktown/OKC. If you delete the giant tower, it's still several towers of apartments, office space, retail, etc.

***sarcasm on***

I kind of look at this project as a phallic symbol from superiority complex driven OKC going back to the 70's as a sign to the rest of the state as to who is in charge, similar to the giant golden tower City Of Faith complex.

***sarcasm off***

It just seems like an overly ambitious project. Is there really that much demand for a project like this? What's the occupancy rate of Devon Tower?

I realize this will be a multi use building, but is there enough demand for over 1000 apartments? Is this going to be part of the new arena project? The reason I ask about the arena is that there is a trend where pro sports teams want stadiums/ball parks/arenas built as part of a retail/residential/business/entertainment district together as one project.

This is why the Phoenix Coyotes NHL team will more than likely be moving to Salt Lake City since they have been turned down by almost every city in the metro area. There most recent attempt was a sports village in Tempe with a $2 billion dollar price tag that the voters turned down, and there current attempt at buying state land at auction (the land that they are wanting to buy has been bought, foreclosed, and reclaimed by the state at least two times since 2008) borders Phoenix and Scottsdale and neither city is in a big hurry to provide utilities, and the fact that it is in a flood prone area doesn't help matters. Scottsdale already said "You're on your own" for water and sewer. Phoenix has told them that they are responsible for mitigating flood zone areas.

I take the following video with a grain of salt, but there is some truth to it. It's from 2020 discussing the stadium/arena district/village.

https://youtu.be/zczyEkkjvZk?si=JQESgB1d6fQmoW89