OK. So I had originally intended to write about a totally different subject this month. But a glance at the calendar and the death of one of my teen heroes means I am gonna write about Halloween. Kinda. Sorta.
Opinion
When I sat down to use the word processing program Word, I was accosted by my computer which wanted me to use “Copilot.” I don’t need copilot to compose what many humans have, until recently, been capable of creating, a column in the newspaper. I enjoy crafting my words from my soul, which is consciousness. I’m sure you have a soul too! Hopefully, that doesn’t spook you!
Nov. 7 will mark a year since the ribbon cutting of the St. Jude’s Ranch for Children Healing Center and shortly after, the opening of the since renamed school, Amy Ayoub Academy of Hope.
I don’t often write in this space about things that have already been in the paper. There are a couple of reasons for that. First, it would often mean writing about “old news.”
Pardon the headline wordplay, but at age 100 (with 101 approaching next month) the celebrated Sara [Katherine Pittard] Denton has lived a life with few dents along the way.
Boulder City booster and town scribe Elton Garrett’s sense of the dramatic didn’t fail him.
Believe it or not, Interstate 11 has been under construction for almost a full year now. Sometimes called the Boulder City bypass, the initial 15-mile project is divided into two segments. Phase 1 is the 2½-mile segment between Railroad Pass and U.S. Highway 95 near the western edge of our city. Phase 2 is the longer, 12½-mile segment that will wrap around the south and east of our populated areas from U.S. 95 to a point near Hoover Dam Lodge and the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.
When I lived in the Golden State years ago, the L.A. Weekly newspaper published several freelance articles of mine. Those articles notwithstanding, the publication remains one of the best alternative weekly newspapers in the nation.
The winds of change are upon us. I’m sure you’ve all seen and felt it in the past couple of weeks.
Ben Collins is retired now and living in Oregon, but he spent most of his career roaming Nevada and the region with the Bureau of Land Management.
Historic Boulder City can be viewed from many different perspectives and whoever is looking at it may see many different things. To gain one perspective a person could take a drive and look at the city from the view of a traveler on his or her way to visit Lake Mead or the dam, that traveler being fully aware of the historic significance of Boulder City.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” So said John Dalberg-Acton, the first Baron Acton.
What a crazy, fantastic, strange thing. Sunday morning the resurrection flips everything over. It messes everything up. It’s kind of Jesus’ pattern — you know, he never went to a funeral without turning it into a resurrection. The Apostle Paul says three interesting things about the resurrection of Jesus: “What I received I pass on to you: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day.” (1 Cor. 15:3-5)
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Photos by Ron Eland/Boulder City Review
In an otherwise quiet meeting this week, the city council, with Mayor Joe Hardy absent due to attendance at the meeting of the Nevada League of Cities, with Mayor Pro Tem Sherri Jorgensen presiding teed up a possible vote on two of the most contentious items on the council’s plate in to past couple of years.
When the story from last week’s issue of the Boulder City Review concerning the approval of a temporary map for the coming Liberty Ridge development hit social media, the outcry was swift.
The word phenom is defined as a person who is outstandingly talented or admired, especially an up-and-comer.
