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Charles Biggs

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Visiting Canada is off my ‘to do’ list – at least for now

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I have never set foot in Canada. The closest I have ever been was in Alaska or maybe Seattle, Washington. I have always wanted to visit Canada. My favorite Spanish teacher, Mrs. Ford, at Bell Junior High School always said that Americans should learn either French or Spanish to better understand Canada (they speak French…

It snows in here Tulsa but not often and not a whole lot

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According to the National Weather Service, the big snowstorm Tulsa has in 2011 was the second biggest on record behind 1958. We had 22.5 inches of snow in February of 2011. That’s a lot. Tulsa has 29.6 inches of snow in the year 1958. We had 10 inches of snow in February of 2021 and…

Why would my wife put up with me for 39-plus years?

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On July 10, 2022, my wife Susan and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. I am very proud of that. My late father-in-law the Rev. George Campbell and my mother-in-law Martha Campbell were married for more than 60 years. I grew up in a home with a Dad but no Mom because she passed…

Vote for Tim Harris for Tulsa School Board Feb. 8th

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If you want to improve public education in Tulsa, vote for Tim Harris in District 7 of the Tulsa School District on February 8. Most people know him from his long tenure as Tulsa County District Attorney. He retired but he didn’t retire from wanting to serve the public. Harris has taught law at Oral…

Now is not a good time to make a Tulsa hospital visit

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On January 13, I spent 12 hours in the waiting room of a Tulsa hospital’s emergency room. Several days prior to January 13, I was sick. I thought I had the flu because someone in my family had it and I was having similar symptoms. I asked Jeff Brucculeri to fill in for my on…

The Chinese virus has taught us who we cannot trust

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After two years of battling the Chinese coronavirus, what have we learned? As of January 11, there have been 769,662 confirmed cases in Oklahoma with an estimated 12,666 deaths. There’s overwhelming evidence that the virus came from a Wuhan, China, lab and was engineered via gain-of-function research and was financed by American funding. If you…

Beacon lineup of syndicated columnists keeps changing

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When we started the Tulsa Beacon in 2001, we wanted our editorial pages to have conservative columnists. We went to Creators Syndicate and picked out four columnists: David Limbaugh, Robert Novak, Mona Charen and Walter Williams. Former Gov. Frank Keating back then told me that if he were to pick a set of columnists, he…

2022 predictions for sports, politics, President Biden

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Here are my predictions for 2022. The Oklahoma football team will have a better defense with Brent Venables as head coach. TU and Coach Phillip Montgomery will be invited to a bowl game. Coach Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State will be at or near the top of the Big 12 Conference in football. OU, ORU…

Don’t let the media define the true meaning of Christmas

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America’s progressive media goes out of its way to divert attention from the real meaning of Christmas. The real meaning is that God loved us so much that He sent His Son to be born of a virgin, live a perfect life and to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus Christ rose from…

Replacing a trusty waterbed with a high-dollar mattress

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When Susan and I got married in 1982, our first purchase was a California king waterbed. We were not hippies but we liked to sleep on a comfortable mattress and waterbeds were remarkably inexpensive. For almost 40 years, we slept on that waterbed. We replaced the mattress twice and the heater twice. And we replaced…