Earlier this month, the Oklahoma legislature sent a bill to Kevin Stitt that would earmark $18 million to OK POP – the slow-to-develop Oklahoma pop culture-focused museum that persistent scholastics have wanted to build in Tulsa since 2009.
Although using taxpayer dollars to build and fund an Oklahoma-themed pop culture museum seems like a colossal waste of time and money, you may be surprised to learn that our state has actually made many strong and significant contributions and achievements to the national pop culture zeitgeist over the past century.
