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Opinion

  • Vote "For" on Tuesday

    Next Tuesday New Albany voters will decide a simple issue: whether to permit the sale of wine and spirits within the city limits.

  • Violence and women

    President Obama signed Thursday the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which was originally passed in 1994 under the leadership of then Sen. Joe Biden.

  • Support our community theater

    The Tallahatchie River Players, our community theater group, is presenting  “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” this weekend at the Cine Theater in the Magnolia Civic Center.

  • Energy efficiency

    The New Albany Schools Board of Trustees has taken a big step forward in modernizing the energy-consuming equipment in its schools.

  • Free clinic to open

    The effort to improve health care in New Albany takes another step forward Saturday with the opening of a free clinic in our community.

  • Buck stops with board

    The presentation last week about what first impressions visitors get of New Albany didn’t contain much of anything new or startling. It was pretty much what we’ve heard before from other groups.

  • Vote "For" restaurants

    On Tuesday, March 19, New Albany voters will decide whether they want the sale of wine and spirits to be permitted within city limits.

  • Keep lid on tax money

    Officials of the CREATE Foundation of Tupelo spent time this week updating Union County officials on the latest plans for development of an advanced vocational-technical school near the Toyota manufacturing plant.

  • Hospital expansion

    The announcement last week that Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County plans a major expansion is good news for our community.

  • Draining school aid

    Mississippi appears headed down the road of diluting the money available for public education by approving legislation that allows competing “charter schools” to be created.

  • Advancing education

    The Mississippi Legislature is considering a proposal that would provide some state money and standards for preschool programs in the state.

  • It's race time again

    In its first year, it was an overwhelming success. This year we expect it will be even better.

  • A 'classic" NA event

    What has become one of northeast Mississippi’s premiere prep sports events takes place tomorrow in New Albany.

  • Education rankings

    The annual Quality Counts national survey by Education Week magazine has been published and the overall state rankings are not good news for our state.

  • Diluting education

    The Mississippi Senate has quickly passed a charter school bill that, if approved, by the House, will dilute the money available for public education and set up a system of competing schools not supervised by the state Department of Education.

  • City seeks safety grant

    The decision by the New Albany Board of Aldermen to seek federal money to help improve safety and walking and bike paths around city schools is a good one.

  • Classroom technology

    The New Albany and Union County school districts took another step toward improving technology in the classroom this week with the addition of new interactive white touch boards in eight classrooms.

  • "Premium" insurance

    Once in a while something happens that is so illogical that it boggles our mind. For the second year in a row, the city of New Albany’s handling of its property insurance coverage falls in that category.

  • Fiscal cliff compromise

    Our representative in Congress, Alan Nunnelee, voted against the compromise bill that preserves current income tax rates on most Americans, while increasing the rates on households that earn more than $450,000. We’re disappointed in his action.

  • Here's our agenda

    We take pride in providing the news in an objective fashion in our news columns. But here in this space we offer our opinion, and provide space in our Letters to the Editor column for yours.

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