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• Andy Rieger wrote a new blog post: My goal: 20,000 checks   1 month, 3 weeks ago
  

  “What’s your check number?,” the clerk at a local landscape store said to me Saturday afternoon.
  “Seventeen thousand, eight hundred eighty,” was my reply.
  “If you’ve written that many checks, I probably don’t need to worry about it being good,” she said. “Nobody writes that many checks anymore.”
  She’s right. We checkwriters and cash payers are an endangered [...]

• Andy Rieger wrote a new blog post: Knoepfli always had a twinkle in his eye   5 months, 3 weeks ago
  

   
  We lost another one of America’s “Greatest Generation.” Walt Knoepfli died at age 86. He was a fixture in Norman, having lived in Norman longer than me. He came in 1955, worked at Central State Hospital, now Griffin Hospital, and had forgotten more people than I’ll ever know.
  Saw him earlier this month. He brought in [...]

• Andy Rieger wrote a new blog post: A city of bridges and banners   6 months ago
  

  Imagine if the new Rock Creek Road overpass over I-35 that opened this year had paid banners promoting Subway sandwiches on it instead of the concrete art designs.
  Or what if a bank’s banner advertising free checking hung from the new Robinson Street railroad crossing or the water towers were leased to a car dealership in [...]

• Andy Rieger wrote a new blog post: These cowboys know how to have fun   6 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Father forgive me for I have sinned. This weekend, I was a lonely Sooner in Cowboy country even when my team wasn’t there.
  Longtime friends invited us to the OSU Homecoming festivities in Stillwater. It’s an amazing festival of yard displays with moving parts, tailgate parties and thousands of students, parents and fans decked out in [...]

• Andy Rieger wrote a new blog post: Bob Barry never had a bad day   6 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Growing up in Norman, Bob Barry Sr. was always bigger than life in our home. He was the broadcast voice of the Sooners, the same age to the month as my late father, and he was my Norman High School classmate’s father.
  Bob Barry Jr. was in my graduating class, although he went to West and [...]

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