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JBelle: Goodbye Rocky Mountain News

ORG XMIT: CODZ132 Copies of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News sit in the Washington Street Printing Plant of the Denver Newspaper Agency in Denver on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. E.W. Scripps Co., owners of the News, which is Colorado's oldest newspaper dating back to 1859, announced on Thursday that the paper will cease publication with the Friday, Feb. 27 edition. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (David Zalubowski / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: CODZ132 Copies of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News sit in the Washington Street Printing Plant of the Denver Newspaper Agency in Denver on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. E.W. Scripps Co., owners of the News, which is Colorado's oldest newspaper dating back to 1859, announced on Thursday that the paper will cease publication with the Friday, Feb. 27 edition. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (David Zalubowski / The Spokesman-Review)

Copies of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News sit in the Washington Street Printing Plant of the Denver Newspaper Agency in Denver on Thursday. E.W. Scripps Co., owners of the News, which is Colorado's oldest newspaper dating back to 1859, announced on Thursday that the paper will cease publication with today's edition. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

JBelle: One thing that I think is truly rueful is that unlike the banks, the auto industry and AIG, the newspapers haven't gone whining to Congress for bail outs. And arguably, the newspapers were more influential that the former in settling this country, making it America and making us all Americans. I say God Bless and Godspeed, Rocky Mountain News. We were so privileged to have known you.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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