Tulsa to File Suit Over Survey Listing It Last in Quality
Mayor Terry Young said Monday that the city will file a $26-million lawsuit against Cleveland State University over a survey of the quality of urban life that erroneously listed Tulsa last in two categories.
The survey, called “The Quality of Life in U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” ranked Tulsa the nation’s worst city for racial minorities and for “communalists,” persons interested in the quality of community life, government and schools.
Joel A. Lieske, an associate professor of political science at the Ohio college and author of the study, admitted earlier that the rankings were incorrect and offered his “apologies to the citizens of Tulsa.”
Lieske, a defendant in the suit, said a student’s keypunch error “knocked the results for Tulsa silly.”
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