Tulsa Beacon
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The Tulsa Beacon is a weekly newspaper in Tulsa, Oklahoma
. It was founded by Charles and Susan Biggs under the corporate name Biggs Communications, Inc. The first paper was published in April, 2001.
The Tulsa Beacon features news from Tulsa and the surrounding area. It includes local columnists, a recipe page, church news, columns by Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. James Dobson, local editorials and letters to the editor, syndicated columnists (Robert Novak, David Limbaugh, Mona Charen and Walter Williams), local sports, television listings, movie reviews, classified ads and legal notices.
The Tulsa Beacon is a legal newspaper and a member of the Oklahoma Press Association.
The Tulsa Beacon has a conservative editorial policy with an evangelical Christian slant. For example they promote the teaching of creation science
and intelligent design
as equal alternatives to evolution
(see http://www.tulsabeacon.com/?p=1358). The Tulsa Beacon refers to itself as "Tulsa's Family Newspaper."
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
. It was founded by Charles and Susan Biggs under the corporate name Biggs Communications, Inc. The first paper was published in April, 2001.
The Tulsa Beacon features news from Tulsa and the surrounding area. It includes local columnists, a recipe page, church news, columns by Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. James Dobson, local editorials and letters to the editor, syndicated columnists (Robert Novak, David Limbaugh, Mona Charen and Walter Williams), local sports, television listings, movie reviews, classified ads and legal notices.
The Tulsa Beacon is a legal newspaper and a member of the Oklahoma Press Association.
The Tulsa Beacon has a conservative editorial policy with an evangelical Christian slant. For example they promote the teaching of creation science
Creation science
Creation Science or scientific creationism is a branch of creationism that attempts to provide scientific support for the Genesis creation narrative in the Book of Genesis and disprove generally accepted scientific facts, theories and scientific paradigms about the history of the Earth, cosmology...
and intelligent design
Intelligent design
Intelligent design is the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a form of creationism and a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for...
as equal alternatives to evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
(see http://www.tulsabeacon.com/?p=1358). The Tulsa Beacon refers to itself as "Tulsa's Family Newspaper."