Today's News

Those who are depending on freshly produced asphalt being trucked out of the Lehman-Roberts Company plant site on Munsford Drive in New Albany, should not hold their collective breaths until the Circuit Court Judge rules on the litigation that is now being delayed by the City of New Albany, it’s Board of Aldermen and their appointed attorney from Pontotoc. This advisory is being issued as a result of some seriously flawed information being reported by a Northeast Mississippi newspaper.

I was off on Tuesday attempting to get control of this coughing, sneezing malady I have developed, and what happens while I’m gone? The Governor of the State of Illinois gets himself arrested for trying to sell President-elect Barrack Obama’s former seat in the United States Senate to the highest bidder, the wind blew a huge dead limb out of a tree right next to my driveway and the neighbor’s rooster, who crows at 10, 2 and 4, has become confident enough that he now has moved his crowing position to a spot immediately under my bedroom window.

As we were all feverishly typing the Dear Santa letters for the Santa Letter’s section that was published this past Friday, our circulation manager received a telephone call from the postmaster here in New Albany. He had called to advise us that in the future the postal service can no longer forward Santa letters addressed to the North Pole or just to Santa to the newspaper so we can share them with our readers.

  For many Christians there exists a prevailing mythology that America was established as a Christian nation. They envision the founders sitting around trying to put the language of Scripture into the framework of the Constitution. But the myth, while powerful and certainly durable in the imaginations of many believers, is just that—imaginary.