Will Barack Obama turn out to be another FDR?
      EIGHTEEN PRESIDENTIAL elections have taken place in the United States since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was swept into office promising a New Deal for a country that had spent more than two years mired in the Great Depression and had tired of the inaction of his Republican predecessor, Herbert Hoover.
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Time to rethink rural intersections
      WHATEVER THE OUTCOME of the police investigation into the Amaranth collision that took two lives last Friday, it's time for local municipalities to take a serious look at how their intersections are controlled. We would not presume to second-guess how or why the fatal mid-morning collision happened.
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Let the people fix it
With Your Permission
Constance Scrafield- Danby
      What would you and your family do with a million dollars? Almost certainly, you would pay off your debts straight away. If you were in the slightest danger of losing your home because you could not, at the moment, keep up your mortgage payments, this danger would come to an abrupt end, because you would eliminate your mortgage and be the full owner of your home.
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