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Charles Biggs

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Here’s my strategy in the middle of a crazy car market

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The car market has gone crazy. Two years ago, my wife and I bought a brand new Buick from Hudiburg Buick in Oklahoma City for almost $10,000 below list price. I had priced the same Buick at four Tulsa area dealers and Hudiburg’s price was $3,000 below anyone else’s. And three of the four Buicks…

Travel abroad and you will appreciate the United States

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I haven’t traveled outside of the United State very much but I have some. In 1997, I traveled to the Russian Far East and to Moscow. This was an eye-opening experience. I was traveling with three couples who were adopting Russian babies. I was told that the average Russian woman has 10 abortions in her…

People need to get the message about problems with MSG

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A couple of years ago, I walked into Zaxby’s restaurant on Mingo Road at 71st Street. I looked at the menu and asked the teenaged worker behind the counter if their chicken contained MSG. “What’s MSG?” she asked with a puzzled look. “It’s monosodium glutamate,” I said. “What’s that?” she replied. She was not dumb…

Oxley’s New Prospect Co. celebrates its 40th year with friends, employees

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FORT SMITH, Ark. – While so many energy companies are filing bankruptcy or going out of business, former Tulsan Mike Oxley, founder of New Prospect Company, just celebrated the 40th anniversary of his firm with a banquet for employees and friends. What is the secret of longevity for this company amid the ups and downs…

You could not ask for a better Dad than Harley Biggs

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The older I get, the more I appreciate my late father, Harley U. Biggs, Sr. Dad was a three-sport athlete at Cherokee High School in the late 1930s. He starred in basketball, football and baseball – but his first love was baseball. He said he had an offer to play baseball at Oklahoma A&M (now…

Oklahoma and South Dakota have many similarities

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MITCHELL, South Dakota – In  lot of ways, Oklahoma and South Dakota are very similar. Both states have more registered Republicans than Democrats. Forty-five percent of the registered voters in Oklahoma are Republican while that number is 53% in  South Dakota. Oklahoma has a conservative Republican governor and so does South Dakota. The GOP overwhelmingly…

Scientific evidence shows 6,000 years of man’s history

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How long has mankind been on this Earth? What does genetic science tell us? Dr. Jeffrey P. Thompkins is with The Institute for Creation Research. According to his biography, he  “earned a master’s degree in plant science in 1990 from the University of Idaho, where he performed research in plant hormones.  He received his Ph.D….

Memorial Day reminds us of great military sacrifices

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As far as I know, none or my close relatives have ever given their lives while in military service for America. May 31 is Memorial Day. For some Americans, it may just be a three-day weekend, the start of summer, the end of the school year or just another day. For those families who have…

Just one more year until my 50th high school reunion

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Forty-nine years ago, I graduated from Nathan Hale High School. That was a great school, with excellent academics, talented teachers and some really sharp students. I don’t know how many were in my graduating class but it was more than 800. We had great sports teams. Football was a little off my senior year (I…

I guess I have traveled to about 62% of the fifty states

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I have met people who have visited all of the 50 states or plan to as part of their “bucket list.” A bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket.” By my count, I have set foot in 31 of the United States of America (plus the…