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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Leadership Versus Management
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Leadership Versus Management

  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: The Seamless City, Part 2 “Schools (And Libraries) Belong To Everyone”
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Seamless City, Part 2 “Schools (And Libraries) Belong To Everyone”

  June 21, 2014
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?
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Being The Branch Or Being The Fruit?

  June 6, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Challenge Of Clean Up

  May 16, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Seamless City And Sidewalks

  May 2, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Repairing The Roof When The Sun Is Shining

  April 18, 2014
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?
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Synergy Or The Sore Foot?

  April 4, 2014
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”
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 11,”E Pluribus Unum”

  March 21, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 10, The 12 Qualities Of Community

  March 7, 2014
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
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Athens and Limestone contribute to Remington Arms Project

  February 22, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The 2014 Design Alabama Summit

  February 7, 2014
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”
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 9, “The Visible And Invisible Effects Of Time”

  January 17, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Mantle Of A Mayor

  January 3, 2014
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Celebrating And Anticipating

  December 21, 2013
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Power Of Preparation

  December 7, 2013
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”
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 8, “How To Be At Home In The World”

  November 16, 2013
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part Seven, The Importance Of Celebrations

  November 1, 2013
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Wonders Of Our Water Supply

  October 19, 2013
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Gift Of Community, Part 6, Connecting And Reconnecting

  October 4, 2013
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
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Value Of Volunteers

  September 20, 2013
The sermon had to do with all the hard work that is involved in building the Body of Christ, the...
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