Walt Disney once said, “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place – a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”
Opinion
The holiday season is almost upon us, with Halloween coming up.
I’m certain that today every American who was an adult on 9/11 remembers what he or she was doing during the terrorist attacks.
“The city held rates as low as it could for as long as it could.”
My favorite memories as a Boy Scout and church youth group leader always seem to center on community service opportunities.
When you cannot work for the city and you don’t want to run for elected office, what can you do to serve your city government directly? You can serve on a City Council-appointed board or commission. We have 11 such boards in the city with dozens of volunteer members.
Do your priorities guide your life? Whoa! Who has time for priorities? Here are a few of mine.
History tells us that the Korean War officially came to an end July 27, 1953, when the United States, China, North Korea and South Korea agreed to an armistice.
Before you electronically horsewhip a police officer whose body-worn camera wasn’t activated while he was running toward the sound of automatic gunfire during the Oct. 1 massacre, consider the reliability and limitations of the body-worn camera.
What happens to good people when bad things happen? Books have been written on this subject, but when it strikes close to home the question is no longer academic. When enough stress and chaos enter the mix, some good people turn down a road unexpected. Without sufficient moral strength, it takes their soul. Such, I worry, has been happening with my friend Jeff Grasso, the former Boulder City policeman who has had legal troubles lately.
Back in the mid-1970s actors Rock Hudson and Martha Raye filmed an episode of “McMillan &Wife” at Hoover Dam. The television series was a police drama produced by NBC. Originally, Hudson’s costar was Broadway star Nancy Walker (who was born today, May 10), but she left the show and Raye acted as her replacement.
Millenials and our offspring comprise the me, me, me generations. Social media entices us to daily reveal to the world who we think we are. We go to great lengths to define ourselves on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat. But many of us struggle with online authenticity, exaggerating our strengths and minimizing our weaknesses.
After I retired, my wife, Amy Garcia, and I wanted to leave the increasingly urbanized Sonoma County, California, area with our newly adopted infant, Maida.
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The agency is asking a judge to set aside its unprecedented approval so it can conduct more analysis of the controversial project. It comes weeks after the judge halted construction.
Walt Disney once said, “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place – a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”
There’s a saying among many Boulder City High School alumni and that’s, “Once an Eagle, always an Eagle.”
Picking up a huge homecoming victory, Boulder City High School football defeated 4A Sierra Vista 24-19 on Sept. 18.
