For four years now I’ve covered the annual Boulder City Chamber of Commerce dinner and awards night. And for four years there’s a part that always gets me a bit misty-eyed.
Opinion
This week is primary election week. And if we had a vote on pollution, I’m pretty sure what the outcome would be.
Earlier this month, it was reported that a couple of minor earthquakes hit Nevada, which should come as no surprise to many considering our proximity to the San Andreas Fault.
Have you ever noticed how life can feel perfectly calm, and then suddenly everything hits at once? The calm before the storm is a real phenomenon in nature. The atmosphere often becomes extra still and quiet just before a raging storm breaks. And then, when it finally rains, it often pours, as the saying goes.
Garrett Junior High School has been very busy this quarter. Across campus, classrooms are wrapping up their final projects and concluding MAP testing to bring us into the final few days of the school year.
Every time I look out into my backyard I am reminded about the beauty and promises of hope that spring brings.
Outrageous. Scandalous. Deeply offensive. And entirely inappropriate for children.
Dutch loanwords (a word adopted from one language to a second language) inspired my readings this month about the settling of Manhattan, a study of the geography, demography, migration and birth of New Netherlands.
If things start turning purple before your eyes in the next few weeks, don’t be surprised. In fact, be overjoyed.
The water crisis in Flint, Mich., has gone national with blanket media coverage. The problem is as plain as the brown muck that’s been flowing from kitchen faucets.
The Veterans Administration treats patients using traditional, standard and long-established medical practices. As science progresses, the VA does move forward, albeit slower than some would like.
A critical element of my mayor’s vision for the coming year is crystal clear communication. In my State of the City address last month, I challenged the City Council and staff to be more efficient, effective and proactive communicators.
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This past Wednesday, more than 20 people gathered in a small room to do big things.
To use railroad terminology, one can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.
In a unanimous vote, the Boulder City Council voted to appeal the Trump administration’s unpopular approval of a data center that shut the public out.
Photos by Ron Eland/Boulder City Review
