Somewhere near Riverside

At the suggestion of Jeff Shaw, I took a look at NoTulsaRiverTax.com, a site which seeks to rally opposition to the proposed 0.4-percent Tulsa County sales tax to finance development of the Arkansas River.

The most pertinent question, I think, is this one: "Is it truly fair to tax the whole county for a massive project that only benefits a few communities?" If I lived in, say, Owasso, I might be asking that myself. On the other hand, it's not like the 'burbs never benefit from anything that happens in Tulsa, and certainly the local homebuilders' association, "dominated by developers based in Owasso and Broken Arrow", isn't at all averse to throwing around its weight downtown.

Still, it's worth remembering that when Oklahoma City put out its humongous MAPS wish list, the 1-percent sales tax was imposed only in the city; Edmond and Bethany and Midwest City were not expected to kick in.

Regarding the site in general, I hate to sound like a Firefox fanboy, but the curt "Links may not work in Mozilla Firefox browser" is an admission of ineptitude. (As is, for that matter, exporting anything from Word into Mickeysoft's shabby excuse for markup language in the first place.) The left-side menu doesn't even appear in Firefox. Nothing like alienating a quarter to a third of your prospective audience right off the bat, guys.

Posted at 11:43 AM to Soonerland