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Charles Biggs

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High school proms have changed a lot in the past 45 years

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Forty-five years ago (ouch), I graduated from Nathan Hale High School. I spent three wonderful years at the best school in town with the sharpest teachers and the finest friends you could ever ask for. Make that, “for which you could ever ask,” We will have our class of ’72 45th reunion July 22-24 here…

Rehabilitation, Ritalin, video games and other topics

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Someone sent me a copy of a letter to the editor written by Ken Huber of Tawas City, Michigan. Tawas City sits aside Lake Huron in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and has a population of about 2,000 and a total area of about 2.2 square miles. And a whole lot of common sense. Mr….

We don’t see television shows like The Rifleman anymore

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One of my favorite shows growing up was The Rifleman, starring the late Chuck Connors. It was set in the Old West and every episode was a morality play. The good guys always won. Filmed in black and white, The Rifleman had a five-year run on ABC that began in 1958. The setting was a…

Irish eyes have to keep smiling with these kinds of jokes

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When I was a student at Nathan Hale High School, I had a weekend job as a pizza cook at Irish Mike Clancy’s Pizza Parlor on Mingo Road just north of 11th Street. Back in the late 1960s, there wasn’t a pizza parlor on every corner. Irish Mike was a former pro wrestler who was…

Public education has changed a lot in the last 50 years

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When I was a child, the fall semester at school started the Tuesday after Labor Day and the spring semester ended the Friday before Memorial Day. Back then, when I went to Burbank Elementary, Bell Junior High and Nathan Hale High School, we got two weeks of vacation at Christmas and we were off on…

Will double-digit inflation affect college football games?

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Will inflation, especially high gas prices, affect college football attendance this season? Oklahoma always sells out their home games. But as far as I can tell, the cheapest seats would be in the endzones and cost about $65-150 in games like UTEP and  Kent State and $175-$370 for games like Oklahoma State. If you are…

Would a manned spaceflight to Mars be a workable idea?

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Should we go to Mars? Is a manned spaceflight to Mars even possible? If we go, could we get our astronauts back safely? How much would it cost? I spoke with former U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, who was head of the Space Agency NASA during the Trump Administration about this topic. Bridenstine, a Navy pilot,…

The recession that Biden lied about is here and growing

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President Joe Biden continues to make predictions that he knows are not true and then he lies about it when the truth is inescapable. Last year, he said the spike in inflation was “temporary.” It’s not. It’s grown to at least 9.1% (if it were accurately calculated, it would be closer to 17%). He said…

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A trip to the Wichita Wildlife Refuge is worth the effort

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I have lived in Oklahoma almost all my life but I have only been to the Lawton area once before a weekend trip this July. The highlight of the trip was a car ride through the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. We mostly stayed in our car because of the summer heat. In fact, the Refuge…

Conference realignment is for the money, not the fans

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I am so old that I remember the Big Eight conference. I have a memory of the 1971 Game of the Century between No. 1 Nebraska and No. 2 Oklahoma. After that game, every matchup between the Sooners or Cornhuskers was “must-see TV.” And it was difficult the watch on TV at first because the…