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Opinion

  • Corinth OKs wine, spirits

    The city of Corinth has become the first to take advantage of a new state law that allows city voters to determine whether they want the sale of wine and spirits permitted within city limits.

  • Expanding health care

    We find comments this week from Mississippi Medicaid Executive Director David Dzielak troubling. He seemed to suggest to a state Senate committee that spending money to help more of the state’s low-income citizens have access to Medicaid might not improve their health.

  • Rally to the cause

    In less than two weeks, volunteers will be fanning out across Union County delivering food and toys through the Gazette’s Sharing at Christmas program to families in need.

  • A fountain of bad ideas

    Here we go again. Gov. Phil Bryant last week proposed yet another plan to raid the public school treasury, this time to support private schools.

  • New event downtown

    The New Albany Main Street Association’s annual Holiday Open House has become so successful that the association has developed an encore event.

  • Invest for the future

    By just about any measure, the economy is slowly getting better, both nationally and in the state.

  • Honoring Mr. Gault

    Bobby Gault has been elected president of the Mississippi School Boards Association, capping a  areer in education that began with his election to the New Albany Schools Board of Trustees in 1976.

  • Sharing at Christmas

    Thanksgiving is here, for many of us a time for family gatherings, turkey, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings.

  • Chaney pro-active

    Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has become something of an expert on an unlikely topic – creating a state health insurance exchange as outlined under the federal Affordable Care Act.

  • Cleaning up our city

    Another proposal designed to improve the look of New Albany is under consideration by the Board of Aldermen.

  • Broadening horizons

    We’re proud of the University of Mississippi and the way the Ole Miss administration and the great majority of its students have adopted the progressive views of a modern Mississippi and rejected the narrow, repressive ways of the past.

  • Vigilance on schools

    The 2013 Mississippi legislative session will not get under way until January, but already the state’s Republican leadership is beating the drum for raiding the public education treasury to create so-called charter schools.

  • Vote on Tuesday

    Tuesday is election day across the country, but because Mississippi is not a “swing” state, we have missed (or been spared depending on your point of view) most of the national television ads in the presidential race.

  • Population growth

    We got a glimpse of what may be ahead for New Albany in a presentation this week at the annual meeting of the New Albany Main Street Association.

  • Sharing at Chritmas

    Today the Gazette starts its 38th annual Sharing at Christmas push for money to help provide holiday help for families in need in Union County.

  • Chili event Saturday

    The Hill Country Halloween and Chili Cook-off is set for 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday on the Union County Courthouse lawn.

  • Maintaining property

    The City of New Albany is considering a proposal to upgrade its current building code regulations to put more emphasis on property maintenance.

  • Fashion police?

    There are some things we have a little trouble taking real seriously. A proposed ordinance banning saggy pants is one of them.

  • Wastewater treatment

    New Albany’s Light, Gas and Water utility has quietly gone about fixing a problem at the city’s wastewater treatment plant and now is tackling another one.

  • Charitable giving

    The United Way campaign for 2012 has been going on since August, and up to now the campaign has raised 28 percent of its goal of $2.3 million.

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