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JIM FURLONG | The Tyranny of the Minority

Posted on July 11, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Health, News, Opinion, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our July 10-16, 2022 issue
Just as I thought the damage was done and the much-repudiated Donald Trump had exited the stage we find his ghost still haunts the halls, at least for a little while longer.
The democratic process in the United States said a

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Jim Furlong | Through A Glass But Darkly

Posted on July 5, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, History, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our July 3-9, 2022 issue
Part of the reality of writing “op-ed” as opposed to straight journalism is you can’t just take popular positions and write to the crowd.
Why is that? Well, it won’t be any good for one thing. That’s the caution and opening paragraph

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JIM FURLONG | Common Sense & Emotion

Posted on July 1, 2022
By Jim Furlong
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As we waited for a decision on the sale of The Basilica, St. Bonaventure’s School and the St. Bon’s Forum, last I told everybody that I didn’t really care what happened to the properties.
That’s because, despite being an old St. Bon’s boy and a member of the Catholic Church

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JIM FURLONG | Hello Dad

Posted on June 20, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally appeared in our June 19-25, 2022 issue
I did not “know” my dad in any real sense of the word. He’s dead a long time now and my last memory is 60-years-old or more. He was dead before I reached the age of 20. Dad was 55 years of

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JIM FURLONG | Good Guys Don’t Always Win

Posted on June 17, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our June 12-18, 2022 issue
The race does not always go to the swiftest or so we are told in Ecclesiastes. The cold reality is that it usually does and smart money bets it that way.
Those words are a grim reminder that the bloody war in

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JIM FURLONG | The Sound of Lazy Bank

Posted on June 12, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Web Exclusives

Last week I was down to where Lazy Bank used to be. It still exists, but it’s buried now. It’s the river that gave its name to the uphill road that is now Pleasant Street in St. John’s. The river never existed above ground during my lifetime, but I knew

JIM FURLONG | Belonging

Posted on June 4, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Sports, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our May 29-June 4, 2022 issue
It’s an odd concept “to belong” to something, but I’m convinced it’s an important part of being a human.
A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail inviting me to be a part of the annual general meeting of the Avalon

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JIM FURLONG | Good Old Days

Posted on May 27, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally printed in our May 22-28, 2022 issue
Given all the problems we have with alcohol in our society it is with some reluctance I tell you of the way things were in the press gallery of the House of Assembly. Not to dismiss all the bad things associated with

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JIM FURLONG | Tell Me Why

Posted on May 20, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Business, Column, From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

t’s a task of many years writing for The Herald. I am trying to find an answer to a question. Last week I was looking back through my archives and noticed what are “recurring themes.”
One of those themes that’s ongoing is the idea of our conservation of ANYTHING.
We

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JIM FURLONG | Older than Dirt

Posted on May 13, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

I was flipping through an old Newfoundland recipe book from 1979 and came upon molasses bull’s eyes. That’s a confection from my youth. Mrs. Power’s candy store on New Gower just down from Andrews Range had the best.
My son, who was in the room the other night, had never

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