What About the Judges?

One of the more difficult things going through the ballot is going through all the judges. Below are links and info on each of the judges that come up in the Tulsa County ballot.

Oklahoma Supreme Court

Judge	Appointed By	Served Since
Noma Gurich	Brad Henry (D)	2011
Noma Gurich	George Nigh (D)	1986
James Edmondson	Brad Henry (D)	2003
James Edmondson	Brad Henry (D)	2003

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Judge	District	Appointed	Governor	Law School	Hometown
Clancy Smith	1st	2010	Brad Henry (D)	University of Tulsa	Tulsa, OK
Arlene Johnson (Vice)	4th	2005	Brad Henry (D)	University of Oklahoma	Oklahoma City, OK
David Lewis	5th	2005	Brad Henry (D)	University of Oklahoma	Ardmore, OK

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Justice	Birthplace	Year Service Began	Appointing Governor	Law School
Thomas Thornbrugh
William Hetherington	Norman, Oklahoma	2009	Brad Henry (D)	Oklahoma City University
Kenneth Buettner	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	1996	Frank Keating (R)	Southern Methodist University
Robert Bell (Chief Judge)	Norman, Oklahoma	2005	Brad Henry (D)	University of Tulsa
E. Bay Mitchell, III	Enid, Oklahoma	2002	Frank Keating (R)	University of Oklahoma

Why are gas prices going down?

      As you may have noticed, gas prices have been slowly coming down. Normally, for the Memorial Day weekend and through the summer, gas prices go up due to increased demand and refineries switching over to summer gas. What we are seeing is more oil in the interior of the U.S. due to extra oil production through shale oil and gas production. There is enough production that the Seaway Pipeline flow was reversed. The Seaway pipeline runs from Cushing, OK to Houston, TX. Normally, it takes oil from Houston to refineries in Cushing, OK. Now, since there is actually a glut of oil in the interior of the U.S, the pipeline is taking oil from Cushing, OK to Houston. The extra oil is causing prices to slowly drop.

Seaway pipeline sends oil to Texas in historic reversal