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"The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for." --Bill Bonner It's important to know some history of how consumerism became a priority in this country.

Does the growing rift between most progressives and the Obama administration represent merely tactical disagreements among people who share the same values and goals? Or is there a deeper, philosophical divergence on display? In a thoughtful essay for the New Republic, "Taking Ideological Differences Seriously," Ed Kilgore of the Democratic ...

One person was injured in a gas line explosion Thursday afternoon northeast of New Deal.

J parent begins debt restructuring Morris Publishing Group today launched its financial restructuring plan by opening the offer to exchange old debt with new debt that will lower its obligation to $100 million from $278 million.

Just after 3 p.m., a gas line explosion occurred just northeast of New Deal at FM 2902 and CR 5400.

Lubbock, TX After losing almost everything in a morning fire, a New Deal family says they will start to pick up the pieces when the sun comes up Wednesday morning.

A Lubbock county family appears to now be homeless after a house fire late Tuesday morning.

In 1941, the Roosevelt administration commissioned a radio special, 'We Hold these Truths,' to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights.

Do you wonder about how and where to publish your book? Maybe you think that it would be great to be taken under a publisher's wings - for them to promote your book.

If you're looking to self-publish a book or start a small publishing company, I highly recommend you buy a copy of Make Money Self-Publishing: Learn How From Fourteen Successful Small Publishers by Suzanne P. Thomas.

By TIM RUTTEN For nearly a century, the Anti-Defamation League has stared unflinchingly into the dark corners of America's social psyche -- the places where combustible tendencies such as hatred and paranoia pool and, sometimes, burst into flame.

Old-style Democrat Michael Lind asks a timely question in a Salon essay entitled Can populism be liberal? There remains the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, represented more in Congress than in Obama's White House -- and more in the House than in the Senate, a dully complacent millionaires' club.

LUBBOCK, TX Firefighters from New Deal and Shallowater responded to a grass fire Wednesday afternoon that threatened two homes.

In a word, street cred pure and simple. But the entire narrative was to us-and remains-entirely one of artifice.

It's all so terribly sad. To listen to liberals and the spin election results, you'd think all was well with the world.

A Lubbock man died Thursday after his SUV flipped end over end in a one-vehicle crash in north Lubbock County.

A one-car rollover that happened near the airport Thursday afternoon has turned fatal.

Recorded in 1931, Bing Crosby's version of "Dancing in the Dark," Morris Dickstein points out, evoked not only a bleak ballroom, but "our darkest feelings, the existential limits of the human condition, and the ongoing troubles of the Great Depression." And yet, the idea that Americans could "face the music together" became an article of faith of ...

William ''Bill'' Fletcher Shepherd, Jr. Avalanche-Journal Friday, October 23, 2009 Story last updated at 10/23/2009 - 2:38 pm William "Bill" Fletcher Shepherd, Jr., 67, of Lubbock, departed this life on Saturday, Oct.

Six local agencies battle a grassfire north of Lubbock. The fire broke out about three miles north of the Lubbock County line on Farm to Market 2825.