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Editorials

  • Progressive energy steps

    The installation of a solar-panel array at the Toyota manufacturing plant in Blue Springs is significant to our community in two ways.

  • Celebration Saturday

    This Saturday the local coalition that organized the Excel by 5 early childhood initiative is celebrating the community’s official certification in the program.

  • Spring cleanup

    It’s spring cleanup time and our area certainly needs it. Recent rains have spurred the growth of weeds and high grass, leaving a generally overgrown look in some areas both in and outside the city of New Albany.

  • Choosing city leaders

    The upcoming city primary election promises to be an important one with lively contests for mayor and chief of police as well as races in three of the five aldermen spots.
    All of the city elections except Alderman, Ward Four, will be decided in the Democratic primary on May 7 or the runoff election May 21.

  • Fill up the theater

    Later this month we will have an opportunity to hear one of the world’s best young pianists. And she won’t be on television or satellite radio. She will be right here in New Albany.

  • Correcting a mistake

    The Mississippi Senate Education Committee has wisely blocked the appointment of Joel Bomgar to the state Board of Education.

  • Hurting our schools

    The deal is done.
    The Mississippi Legislature has given final approval to a bill that will allow the money available for public education to be further diluted by creation of more competing charter schools.

  • Gardening weekend

    The annual New Albany Home and Garden Show will take place Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, at the Union County Fairgrounds.

  • Switching parties

    State Sen. Nickey Browning of Pontotoc has become the latest Mississippi legislator to switch political parties.

  • Protecting the hens

    It’s a case of putting a fox in the henhouse.
    Pardon us for starting with a trite expression, but it fits the situation perfectly. Monday House Speaker Phillip Gunn, a Republican from Clinton announced he is appointing Joel Bomgar to the state Board of Education.

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