A Few Minutes with the Mayor
God Bless America – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – November 2020
Recognize this song title? It’s the song of every immigrant who ever came to America after leaving home, family and friends behind seeking a better life. Immigrants […]
The Fire – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – October 2020
The deadline for submitting this column was rapidly approaching as I finished what I hoped would be an appropriate topic as I near the end of my […]
Postcards from the Edge – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – September 2020
Recently, I received three postcards from Jacksonville citizens, all denouncing me as a racist for my July column. The column deplored racism, but the readers read it […]
Time to Retire! – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – August 2020
I got up the usual way this morning… one eye half closed and legs that wobbled with a message to stop at once, crawl back under the […]
We the People – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – July 2020
One of the most familiar quotations in literature came to mind as I saw our nation’s cities explode in violence once again. It was by Charles Dickens […]
Take Heart! – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – June 2020
With time on my hands, as so many of us have these days, I was surfing the Internet when this quotation popped up on my screen: “When […]
Reflections on The Coronavirus – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – Submitted for the May 2020 issue
The other day someone asked me to compare the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on citizen‘s lives with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor […]
Movie Night Going Great – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – April 2020
Our twin-date movie nights at Old City Hall when we ran The Last of The Wild Horses, a 1948 film shot in Jacksonville and other parts of […]
Vinegar Dreams – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – March 2020
A few days ago, I was watching the news on television. There were two anchors on camera and the longer they talked the more I began to […]
Mayor’s Movie Night! – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – February 2020
A number of you know that a Hollywood motion picture, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, was filmed right here in Jacksonville in 1972. You may not know […]