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Today's Opinions

  • A few “land mines” await successful candidates

         For over a year now, I have wondered how The City of New Albany managed to come up with $60,000 plus to pay off the fireworks and other unpaid expenses for the 2007 Freedom Festival. If you will remember, that was the one where the Charlie Daniels Band performed (at a huge price), tickets were sold (and only about 2,000 people showed up) and the rest of the revenue producing activities, such as concessions had been exclusively contracted out.

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  • Unemployment benefits for Gov. Barbour?

         Jobless Mississippians may be looking back at the last statewide elections and wondering why they voted to reelect Haley Barbour as their governor. As employed citizens, the political posturing and blustery talk is entertaining and not of much concern, but once you lose your job and the governor you helped to reelect starts playing politics with the unemployment compensation aspects of the Federal Stimulus Package while talking big about denying some of the funds that could help you and your family survive, you gain a different perspective.

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  • Tourism tax revenues and plans for a mini-coliseum

    While thumbing through some of our bound copies of the newspaper, I came upon an article that appeared in the June 1, 2005 issue of The New Albany Gazette. The headline reads: “City diverts $1 million towards mini-coliseum.”

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  • Where’s Nickey?

        According to the records, our state senator, representing not only Union County, but Pontotoc County, as well, has been in the Mississippi State Senate since 1996. Quite an accomplishment and one that indicates that Nickey Reed Browning must be performing to the satisfaction of the voters of these two counties.

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  • City officials receive automatic pay increases

          When my sister and I would get a bit too hurried in taking care of schoolwork or the household chores we were expected to do, my mother referred to the old saying that “haste makes waste’ in an effort to slow us down and help us do our best work. In this international world economy in which we now live, we could replace that saying with an old Chinese proverb on the futility of hurrying - “A hasty man drinks his tea with a fork.”

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  • Forecast: newspapers have many years to go

    By Louisa Ada Seltzer

    The latest forecast for America’s newspapers would suggest that extinction is not too far off. UBS figures newspaper revenues will be down 12.2 percent when the final figures are in for 2008 and tumble another 17.6 percent this year.

    Already, a number of papers around the country have cut circulation, or frequency, or both, and others have gone online only, scrapping their print editions entirely.

    More of that is widely expected to occur this year as the ad recession deepens.

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  • Automatic pay raises and differences of opinion

    Last month the Congress of these United States automatically gave themselves a raise in pay. This increase amounted to $4,700 per year, bringing their annual salaries to $174,000 for all 535 House and Senate members, costing taxpayers more than $2.5 million. This was a 2.8 per cent increase while millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are barely surviving on unemployment.

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  • Auto industry must make some sacrifices too

    The Senator from the State of Maryland, Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat who sponsored legislation within the Stimulus Bill to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, recently advised, “No matter how much government aid we give to the Big Three auto makers, they can’t survive if consumers don’t start buying cars.” It would be hard to disagree with her statement, but she demonstrates in those remarks, a basic misunderstanding of the issue at its core.

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