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Charles Biggs

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What can America do about the rising cost of college?

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When I went to Tulsa Junior College in the fall of 1972, tuition was $6.25 per credit hour. Tulsa Junior College, now Tulsa Community College, was a godsend because before it opened its campus downtown, there were no state-supported colleges or universities in Tulsa. The University of Tulsa and Oral Roberts University were the only…

My meager collection of coffee mugs each tell a story

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I have a pretty good assortment of coffee cups from a wide variety of places. If I am a coffee cup collector, it’s more by accident than on purpose. The oldest cup I own is really a beer stein from Europe. When I was in college, my friends Marsha and Terri went to Europe during…

You have to listen very carefully to get all the lyrics right

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Did you ever have a favorite song but there were some lyrics that were a little jumbled and you had no idea what they were? It happens all the time. In the song, I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight by Cutting Crew, one phrase is, “I Just died in your arms tonight, it must…

After USD blowout, No. 5/4 OU faces a struggling UCLA

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NORMAN – Oklahoma (2-0) and UCLA (0-2) are headed in opposite directions. No. 5/4 OU travels to Pasadena Saturday for a 7 p.m. kickoff (Central Time) on Fox Sports. The Sooner football team, with the No. 1 offense in the nation, cruised past a scrappy South Dakota team 70-14 Saturday here while Chip Kelly’s hapless…

A billion reasons why Oklahoma needs fiscal discipline

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Oklahoma is taking in a lot of tax money. In fact, during the last year, the state has gotten so much extra money, it has as much as a billion dollars in the Rainy Day Fund (and other accounts). That’s a billion with a “B.” Gov. Kevin Stitt, to his credit, wants to sit tight…

I never bought a motorcycle and never played football

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Football fever is in the air. I almost played football when I was in the sixth grade at Burbank Elementary School. I went to the first practice and was shown how to get into a three-point stance on the offensive line. “Block the guy on the other side,” the coach barked. I did block him….

This is August and it is supposed to be hot in Oklahoma

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I used to hate the summer heat. For the first 30 years of my professional life, I wore a coat and tie to work. In the late 1970s, former President Jimmy Carter tried to get professional men to dress less formally to save money on energy. (He also mandated a 55-mph speed limit and neither…

This is what I did to lose about 40 pounds in 5 months

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I’ve lost about 40 pounds since March 1. Hurray! This is the most weight I have ever lost in one season. When I was 21, I lost 35 pounds at my summer job, which was delivering furniture for Manhattan Furniture. I wasn’t trying to lose weight that summer but it happened. About 10 years or…

It’s a challenge trying to be a long-distance Grandpa

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I never met one set of my grandparents, my mother’s parents, the late Amos Whitten Rogers and Elizabeth Mae Rogers of West Virginia. Believe it or not, they were both born in 1875 – 144 years ago! They had 11 children, who were born from 1895 through 1917. My mother was born in 1911. She…

South African missionary: Don’t let them take your guns

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Americans should fight to retain their constitutional right to carry firearms and Christians should acknowledge their Biblically based duty for self-defense, South African missionary Charl van Wyk said in Tulsa. Wyk is a full-time Christian missionary from South Africa, in Zimbabwe, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He wrote the best-selling book, Shooting…