It reports on the bust of a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The headline on the influential Drudge Report is from Mediaite. So few indicated they were going to show up for the outdoor rally that it was called off.    Not only is this a setback for Trump's re-election campaign. It will have him re-think his plan to conduct many rallies, just as he had in Campaign 2016.  MORE

A decade old University of Arizona/University of Tulsa study found estimates of meeting expenses range from costs of $30 million to over $100 million a year – a decade ago! For more information, please see this article from USA Today. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” ” - Dave Barry. MORE

The State of Vermont and the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma recently launched remote grant programs, aimed at enticing more location-independent professionals to the area. The face of the modern workplace is changing. It’s a matter of several things – companies are going global, or at least employing workers in places all over the globe. MORE

This semester, Robert McClendon is starting law school at the University of Tulsa. Tulsa gave him a tuition scholarship. That shouldn't be happening. After all, as he explains in a first-person article in the National Law Journa l, his brother was on the brick of a great career path in BigLaw. Then the call came from his future employer Thacher (TBW). In 12 seconds it told him the firm was going to be no more. So there was no longer a job there for him. MORE

A decade old University of Arizona/University of Tulsa study found estimates of meeting expenses range from costs of $30 million to over $100 million a year – a decade ago! For more information, please see this article from USA Today. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” ” - Dave Barry. MORE

That helped leave 12,800 of the 19,000 seats for the Tulsa, Oklahoma reelection campaign empty.   The Tulsa phenomenon has been referred to as "digital activism." "Thousands of teens on TikTok shared videos encouraging people to reserve tickets for Mr. Trump's rally but not attend …"  - The Wall Street Journal , June 21, 20212. The result was plenty of empty seats. Those reserving the tickets were, of course, no-shows. MORE

  The polarization of this development in DOJ could be even further intensified today by the Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as other rallies.  "A high-stakes fight over control of the nation's most prominent federal prosecutor's office broke out Friday, as Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman rejected Attorney General William Barr's assertion that Mr. Berman had resigned his post."  "  - Rebecca O'Brien, et al., MORE

A decade old University of Arizona/University of Tulsa study found estimates of meeting expenses range from costs of $30 million to over $100 million a year – a decade ago! Portions originally in USA Today. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” ” – Dave Barry. We all attend them, participate in them, and to varying degrees, loathe them. MORE

Need to connect with an audience in Charleston SC … Las Vegas NV … San Antonio TX … Tulsa OK … Winston-Salem NC … Elmira NY … or any other location in the US? Someone who recently attended one of my speechwriting seminars emailed to ask if I could recommend a book of quotations about the United States. I can. MORE