According to a report in the daily paper, Roberto Salvador Alvelais-Torres hit and killed bicyclist Beverly Duffield: (emphasis mine)
Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers later arrested Roberto Salvador Alvelais-Torres — a man they described as an illegal immigrant. An affidavit for a warrant to search Alvelais-Torres’ Chevrolet Suburban states that he admitted to a state trooper that he was the driver who hit Duffield.
The affidavit, signed by Trooper Randall Clark, indicates that Trooper Joel Franks located the Suburban — which had a damaged front-end — in a Sinclair Refinery parking lot near 31st Street and Southwest Boulevard. Franks then found Alvelais-Torres at work at the refinery, the document says.
I was hoping that the Tulsa World would follow up and hold Sinclair to the fire as to why a purported illegal alien – now alleged murderer – was working for them. Surely they know that Oklahoma recently passed HB 1804 which strictly tightens down on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
This is really sad for the Duffield family and my heart goes out to them.
Were this my relative, I would definitely be inquiring of Sinclair why this man was working for them. Had Sinclair not enabled this person to work here, Mrs. Duffield would still be here with us today.
Contact Sinclair and ask them what the deal is. I’ve used their contact form, but have not yet received a response. When I do, I will post here for you to read.
meeciteewurkor Tulsa Beverly Duffield, illegal immigration, Roberto Salvador Alvelais-Torres, sinclair oil, Tulsa
While I am in the unique position of being a city employee, I have tried to write this post from a citizen’s standpoint in the hopes it will create some useful and positive discussion.
I’ve watched two mayors come and go (yes, Taylor is going…or not) the last 8 years. When LaFortune took office he brought with him his own agenda, applied said agenda, wrecked some long-standing processes, and then he was gone. In come Taylor who brings her own agenda, applies said agenda, and now she will soon be gone. Guess who is left behind to clean up the mess? We citeewurkors who have committed ourselves to the citizens of Tulsa as a long-standing career. Read more…
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, politics bill lafortune, city manager, kathy taylor, mayor, Tulsa
These videos have been provided to the general public as an act of public service. I offer them without opinion or comment.
Mayor Taylor had a meeting with city employees today at 9:30am (05-01-2009) regarding furlough days and/or pay reductions.
Full Playlist Here, or watch in sequence below after the jump. Read more…
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, politics, video city employee, furlough, kathy taylor, Tulsa
For about a week, I’ve been hearing a frog croaking from either inside my house or maybe underneath it.
I think I found the suspect today. (see video below). If I’m not mistaken this little fellow is a gray tree frog.
With a white spot under both eyes, a white belly and yellowish-orange markings on the inside of its hind legs, the gray tree frog is a handsome and exotic-looking amphibian. Closer examination reveals large adhesive pads on the end of its toes, which allow it to cling to vertical surfaces. But, certainly, this amphibian’s most curious feature is its ability to change colors much like the more-famous lizard with the same trait, the chameleon.
I think the description is dead on for this guy. He’s still out there hanging on to the side of my house. Don’t know what he’s up to, but I hope he eats some mosquitoes tonight! Video after the jump. Read more…
meeciteewurkor video animals, gray tree frog, oklahoma, Tulsa
This is part three of Tulsa’s Water System, a dvd put out by the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority. This particular title contains interviews with the sons of the W.R. Holway, the designer of Tulsa’s Spavinaw system. An excerpt from the dvd:
W.R. Holway designed the Spavinaw System in the early 20s to bring clean water to Tulsa. Mr. Holway’s sons, Don and Bill, talk about their father and the historic Spavinaw project which still brings water to Tulsa.
Video after the jump. Read more…
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, video holman, spavinaw, Tulsa, tulsa water
While rummaging around today, I ran into this random DVD entitled Tulsa’s Water System. I decided to rip the dvd and upload all three parts to youtube.
This first part is about 8 minutes of video about the history of Tulsa’s water system. You should find it very interesting. The video was created by the Tulsa Municipal Utility Authority. (video after the jump) enjoy.. Read more…
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, video flowline, public works, spavinaw, Tulsa, tulsa water
We’ve been hearing a lot about meth lately in the news. Seems everytime I move my eyeballs across my Google newsreader, there is something about meth.
I got to messing around with Google’s advanced search features and ended up with this query to see how many hits (pardon the pun) I could end up with:
meth AND tulsa site:tulsaworld.com OR site:kjrh.com OR site:newson6.com OR site:fox23.com OR site:ktul.com
Not that I particularly endorse any of those news sites, I just used them as cute little lab bunnies for my experiment.
The above query returned about 20,000 hits. Ok, granted there are not that many news articles alone for meth in Tulsa. So I hit the “news” tab for the same query. On the left side of the resulting page I chose articles from the “past month”. That gave me about 50 generic results, most of which contained quite a few news articles.
Hitting the image search tab made for some amusement.
I didn’t watch any, but the video results page was good as well.
Now to the meat of the article. I clicked the “shopping” tab to see just where one can purchase meth. I was disappointed.
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, geek meth, Tulsa
The My Tulsa World blog makes a good point about how folks should be cautious when watering a community garden which the Tulsa City Council just addressed recently. Seems your agreement with the city of Tulsa when you get water service prohibits you from re-selling or using the water anywhere other than the premises where the service was purchased.
I’ve come up with some ideas that could help those that have this issue. Read more…
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, politics community gardens, Tulsa, water agreement
Ah yes.. The mayor would like us to provide input into how we can save money…
Don’t get me started, Mayor.
Irritated Tulsan has a funny post which he claims I assisted in co-authoring. I did, but he cut the suggestion I had about using waste copier paper for toilette paper instead of the real stuff. Jerk.
Go give him your suggestions. I’ve decided to direct you over there so you can do just that. However, there is only one stipulation. The comments on his post must make me laugh so hard, I go pee pee.
meeciteewurkor Tulsa, politics budget cuts, irritated tulsan, Tulsa
Note: I’m writing this as a citizen of Tulsa and not as an employee. While most of the knowledge to write this article comes from my many years of experience as a city employee, I have written this as an opinion as a private citizen.
The citee’s IT dept has taken the first steps to unionize.
Have to be honest with you. I’ve seen this coming for about two years. While I do not work in the city’s IT department, I’ve come into contact with more than enough IT working stiffs to know that they definitely need to.
I’ve had mixed feelings about unionizing over the years. The main turnoff for me has always been the political stances (always liberal) of unions. I’ve never appreciated getting mail from the union endorsing one liberal candidate after another. However, that said, this particular AFSCME local recently became a whole lot better with Mr. Bill Roland at the reigns. Not that I had issues with past AFSCME presidents, I just happen to know Bill and know him to be one of the most genuine people I’ve ever met.
In any case, the city’s information technology department is vital to YOUR city, folks. I will try to explain and defend why I think your city’s IT dept should join up with AFSCME and fight to keep this work internal. Read more…
meeciteewurkor Tulsa afscme, information technology, Tulsa, union
