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Today's Opinions

  • Moving through life

     Being in the newspaper business is a little like being in the Army – two things I know something about.

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  • New Haven special need

     Providing help to adults with special needs is the business of the New Haven Center for Special Needs Adults.

    But the school now has its own special need and is looking to the community to provide the money for it. The school needs a 28-passenger handicapped-accessible bus because its client base is now 22 people ages 20 to 55.

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  • Planning our future

     The proposed revision to New Albany’s comprehensive plan was unveiled at Monday night’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen and it’s a lot to take in.

    We’ve only begun studying the document. It will be available in the next few days online at ucda-newalbany.com.

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  • Ruining Halloween

     My wife says we’ve almost ruined Halloween. It’s one of her favorite holidays. She drags out her string of Halloween pumpkin lights, her motion-activated plastic pumpkin that makes scary sounds and the big gray bat that hangs in the foyer.

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  • Sharing at Christmas

     The 35th annual Sharing at Christmas fundraising drive is under way and we have changed it a bit this year in the hope of reaching our $20,000 goal.

    You already know the program, sponsored by the Gazette with the help of many community volunteers, provides food and children’s toys to about 250 needy families each year.

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  • Fixing city eyesores

     The city of New Albany’s decision to take legal action if necessary to get a commercial property cleaned up is an important move in the right direction.

    The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to get an injunction if necessary to get improvements made to the property where Grisham Wholesale is located on Carter Avenue.

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  • Queasy time at our house

     It’s been a queasy several weeks around our house. All three of us have had those moments when we thought we were going to be sick.

    No, we haven’t had the flu or anything like that. So far we have been spared that.

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  • Pregnancy prevention

     Being first in something is not all that common for Mississippi. And this one is no cause for celebration.

    Unfortunately, what we’re first in is the nation’s highest teen birth rate. The Mississippi rate is more than 60 percent higher than the national average, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

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