May 1, 2015 It’s been a year since our last round of killer storms rampaged through our county, claiming two lives. As is...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The 140 Pilots And The Rest Of The Players
Much is said these days, both in church and in business about need for “servant leadership,” the idea that a...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Resurrection, Recreation, And Keeping A Grip
Opening Day for the spring/summer ball season is Saturday, April 4th, and in a scene that will be repeated all...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Teaching The Dog New Tricks
This edition’s interview started out in the Mayor’s office, and ended up at Leak City, where members of the Department...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gold Medal Life
Jump Starts, a devotional written by Certified Speaking Professional, Tim Richardson, has been a source of inspiration lately for Mayor...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Athens “Bus”
Recently Mayor Marks gave his first State of the City address for 2015 at a Rotary Club luncheon. He used...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Polaris And Progress
Mayor Ronnie had come off of a busy weekend, with the announcement that Polaris was going to build a fabricating...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Looking Back And Ahead
As Mayor Ronnie fetched water and I put coffee in the Mr. Coffee machine in the temporary City Hall conference...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Striking Your Match
For this edition of Ronnie, we sat in the lovely parlor on the main floor of Founders’ Hall at Athens...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Rotarian, Kareem, And Eureka!
This is the first in a series of “Ronnies” that will be keyed off of several outstanding articles published in...
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Holidays Highlight The Character Of Athens – What Makes Ronnie Roll
The loss of two friends and the sacrifices of veterans were the thoughts lingering in Mayor Ronnie Marks’ mind the...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Our Venerable Veterans
Recently American Legion magazine took a poll of its readers to determine the 100 most beloved veterans of all time,...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Greater Things Are Still To Be Done In The City
Veteran praise and worship songwriter Chris Tomlin wrote a fitting song to end the Ronnie series taken from The Seamless...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll—It’s Another Great Day In Athens
As we continue to work our way through Rick Baker’s book The Seamless City, I have found that one of...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Seamless City And Managing The Government
When we gathered for our usual “second-edition-Monday-morning-appointment,” Mayor Ronnie was utterly energized by having just attended the first “Superhero Fun...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Superheroes In The Seamless City
John F. Kennedy said in January of 1961 at his inaugural address, “All of this will not be finished in...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Sonny, Cher, And Fixing Potholes
Mayor Ronnie will be the first to tell you that he could not have become who he is today if...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Blessing (?) Of Budgets
The weekend had been the 26th CASA mud volleyball tournament, and Mayor Ronnie had been a ref. Despite his best...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Athens As A Slice Of Apple Pie
For once I beat him to his office. He sent up a message from below in the Athens Utilities Command...
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