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Opinion

  • Toyota news not what we wanted to...

    Toyota’s announcement on Monday was not the kind of news most Northeast Mississippian’s would call welcome on the eve of Christmas. Of course, such news would not be welcome at any time of the year anyway.

    It’s not secret that we have all been somewhat nervous about the progress of the Toyota project partly as a result of the first delay announcement, but a lot by a perceived reluctance by the company to make very many commitments of late.

  • Local National Guard Armory &...

    During Christmas for the past two years, I have spent more time in the New Albany Armory than any other building in Union County other than the New Albany Gazette Building and my house. No, I’m not a member of Troop C, 108th Armed Calvary Unit of the Mississippi National Guard, but I would be very proud to be if they would take old codgers like me.

  • Opinions are whatever you read into...

    In the truest of classic form, my year is ending as I duck that two-sided sword. Everyone knows that when you express your opinion, someone, somewhere will disagree. Often times, however, out-of-the-blue, comes disagreements with opinions you never had in the first place.

  • Another Board disappointment

    For the observers who have paid close attention, it was not a surprise to learn that the New Albany Board of Aldermen decided to uphold their earlier decision to terminate the employment of former New Albany Parks and Recreation Director Edgar Capaning. Many of those observers who attended the Board meeting Monday night expressed their displeasure with not only all the members of the Board, including the Mayor, but with the manner by which this whole termination process has been handled.

  • Lincoln’s Thanksgiving...

    Editor’s Note: Although written over 140 years ago, the Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by then President Abraham Lincoln gives more than a small bit of applicable advice to our handling of the economic challenges of today as compared with our nation coping with the terrible civil war of that day. That similarity is that of keeping our faith.

  • Charity, economic decline and...

     The Thanksgiving holiday will be a different experience for millions of Americans this year and probably next year as well. By then, millions will be unemployed, adding to the million or so unemployed this year and they will all know that unemployment checks are long used up before turkey and dressing can even be thought about.

  • Bailouts need explanations to the...

    More than enough can be said about the government bailout of the financial wizards who got us into this recession mess in the first place. As usual, our politicians are primarily interested in saving their campaign contribution meal tickets and if anything is left they might have a consideration for the rest of us.

  • State education “experts...

    Here I am, trying to get into the Christmas spirit and along comes another issue that will surely bring out the Ebenezer Scrooge in me. As those who know me already understand, there are few things about which I do not have an opinion, but with some subjects, I have been known to have stronger than usual objections.

  • Past promises returning to bite us...

    To add to my column of last Friday about the building of a road to where existing roads already go, I have to share information from a phone call I received from a friend in this regard. This person may or may not know the real story, but the information is so illogical and ridiculous, as is usually the case when dealing with the state and it’s agencies, it has the ring of validity.

  • It’s not too early to...

    It is not too early for those who would throw their hats into the ring and run for a New Albany municipal public office to announce their intentions to do so. There’s no real advantage to announcing as filing time gets nearer, that’s just a touch of drama that really surprises no one.

  • More on the road theory

     And then there’s that old saying, “You win some and you lose some,” which applies to getting information from folks about stuff that other people don’t want you to know. However, in the case of my information source who told me the Blue Springs highway project was the result of a promise our governor made to Toyota, I think there were some guarantees about distances and elapsed times between plants and they are being used to justify and camouflage some additional reasons for the road to go where roads already go.

  • Asphalt issue story leaves out...

    Those who are depending on freshly produced asphalt being trucked out of the Lehman-Roberts Company plant site on Munsford Drive in New Albany, should not hold their collective breaths until the Circuit Court Judge rules on the litigation that is now being delayed by the City of New Albany, it’s Board of Aldermen and their appointed attorney from Pontotoc. This advisory is being issued as a result of some seriously flawed information being reported by a Northeast Mississippi newspaper.

  • Without finesse, senate seats are...

    I was off on Tuesday attempting to get control of this coughing, sneezing malady I have developed, and what happens while I’m gone? The Governor of the State of Illinois gets himself arrested for trying to sell President-elect Barrack Obama’s former seat in the United States Senate to the highest bidder, the wind blew a huge dead limb out of a tree right next to my driveway and the neighbor’s rooster, who crows at 10, 2 and 4, has become confident enough that he now has moved his crowing position to a spot immediately under my bedroom window.

  • Give a goat as a gift

    With the proliferation of catalogs being sent and delivered this Christmas season, the tendency is to immediately throw them in the trash, unless, of course the lady of the house gets to them first. Most of these catalogs look very much alike and offer discounts and specials for most every type of merchandise imaginable.

  • Santas, gifts, newspapers

    Yes, ‘tis the uniquely American season for mistletoe and holly, tinsel and toys, Santas and sleighs, carols and crèches, good cheer and anachronistic poetic contractions.

    ‘Twas a time when Christmas in America was a less hectic season. Why, the Puritans even banned its celebration. But the Dutch brought their bearded Sancte Claus or Sinterclaas to New Amersterdam, where the children would find candies and nuts and trifling trinkets in their shoes or stockings. The Germans brought a similar tradition with their Pelze-Nicol.

  • Santa letters soon to be thrown in...

    As we were all feverishly typing the Dear Santa letters for the Santa Letter’s section that was published this past Friday, our circulation manager received a telephone call from the postmaster here in New Albany. He had called to advise us that in the future the postal service can no longer forward Santa letters addressed to the North Pole or just to Santa to the newspaper so we can share them with our readers.

  • Sharing at Christmas provides a...

    For over 30 years, The New Albany Gazette and staff have had the privilege of organizing and contributing to an effort to provide food boxes to those of our neighbors who are in need during the Christmas season. This year has been no different. We have been blessed with this opportunity to share, along with all of you who have contributed so unselfishly to your Union County neighbors.

  • The "Magic Map" returns...

    As we wait patiently for the August 5 scheduled re-zoning public hearing to reconsider the Munsford property out on the loop, it occurs to me that, from the discussions I've heard and reports that I've read, most everyone has forgotten how we got here and that we need to do nothing to correct what was never done in the first place.

    Yes, I'm referring to the "Magic Map", better known as the Official Zoning map used by the New Albany Board of Aldermen. The one that rezones properties without human contact or public meeting.

  • Animal Control can be solved the...

    Union County residents, both those residing within the city limits of New Albany and those who live throughout the rest of the county, who are interested and/or concerned about animal control, can look at recent developments in Oxford and Lafayette County at what could be were we to have supervisors who cared.

    The Lafayette County Supervisors agreed to share with the City of Oxford and the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society to fund a new animal shelter to be located in Oxford and serve the whole county.

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