July 4, 2014 Mayor Ronnie just passed a milestone and became 70 years young. There were posters and parties and his yard got...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll Archives
What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Seamless City, Part 2 “Schools (And Libraries) Belong To Everyone”
We met in the Student lounge at Athens State University immediately following the Flag Day ceremony. Jerry Barksdale had given...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Being The Branch Or Being The Fruit?
Most often when we meet on Mondays, Mayor Ronnie has something to say about the sermon he heard the day...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Challenge Of Clean Up
The last time Mayor Ronnie and I met was the morning of the storm, and I subsequently took the liberty...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Seamless City And Sidewalks
We met Monday morning a few hours before the storms hit. Next to the Mayor’s office, in the adjacent conference...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Repairing The Roof When The Sun Is Shining
It was John Fitzgerald Kennedy who said that “the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Synergy Or The Sore Foot?
Anyone who has followed this column much knows that frequent reference is made to the late Stephen Covey’s seminal work,...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 11,”E Pluribus Unum”
We have spent several months discussing Gary McCaleb’s excellent book, “The Gift Of Community,” and have come to the end...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 10, The 12 Qualities Of Community
We have now spent ten “Ronnies” on Gary McCaleb’s excellent book, The Gift Of Community, and both of us agreed...
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Athens and Limestone contribute to Remington Arms Project
Today’s announcement by Gov. Robert Bentley that Remington Arms is locating a manufacturing plant in Huntsville was the culmination of...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The 2014 Design Alabama Summit
This week Mayor Ronnie, along with mayors from Guntersville, Muscle Shoals, Priceville and Good Hope were a part of a...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 9, “The Visible And Invisible Effects Of Time”
Mayor Ronnie is 69 years old, and I am 60. We often talk about how odd it is to be...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Mantle Of A Mayor
When I first started to interview Mayor Ronnie Marks in 2011, there was a book on his desk that would...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Celebrating And Anticipating
Mayor Ronnie, City Hall Communications Specialist Holly Hollman and I sat in the Mayor’s office with the purpose of “looking...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Power Of Preparation
For the first interview of the holiday season, we of course had to spend some time talking about the outcome...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 8, “How To Be At Home In The World”
As we sat down over coffee in the conference room to prepare this segment, Mayor Ronnie, ever the “glass-half-full” kind...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part Seven, The Importance Of Celebrations
We are just finishing up what could be described as our own personal city-spawned festival season, having had Grease Festival,...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Wonders Of Our Water Supply
When Mayor Marks and I get together every two weeks for his interview, often we spend time thinking about and...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 6, Connecting And Reconnecting
Mayor Ronnie has a pretty good handle on local history (at least from my perspective,) but he often mentions that...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Value Of Volunteers
The sermon had to do with all the hard work that is involved in building the Body of Christ, the...
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