Readers’ views for May 9

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Increase in deer numbers due to wise management; Smartest school choice is single Duluth high school; Duluth won’t accept red plan without a vote; Metal band’s inspiration is Shakespeare, not Satan; Hall of fame aviator helps make air show fly

Our view: Thanks, Daugherty’s, for more than a century of expert advice

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
In January, when Daugherty Hardware and Appliances announced it would be going out of business after more than a century as a fixture in Duluth’s East Hillside neighborhood, a longtime customer stormed in, tears streaking down her face.

A mother's view: Mothers’ grief for slain soldiers inspired original Mother’s Day

05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Mother’s Day was created after the Civil War to honor the grief of thousands of mothers whose children were lost in combat. The national holiday also was a call for peace by those mothers.

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