A Few Minutes with the Mayor
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 […]
Share the Spirit – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – December 2019/January 2020
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa la la la la, la la la la
‘Tis the season to be jolly
Fa la la la la, la la […]
Growing Old Isn’t Easy! – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes With the Mayor – November 2019
Growing old isn’t easy. There are no classes for it, and it’s not as if one has much choice. It just happens faster than we expect. We […]
Representing ALL – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – October 2019
A prominent citizen visited my office recently to complain about a statement I made in one of my columns. The statement read, “It is the Constitution that […]
Doing More… – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – September 2019
Long, long ago there was a fellow named Charles Atlas. That wasn’t his real name, but it sounded good for a body-building […]
Here We Go Again – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – August 2019
Some readers may remember a column years ago about my falling and then riding in an ambulance to the ER. It struck […]
Getting Here – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – July 2019
I was 16 years old when I went to college. The year was 1946, World War II had ended, the GI […]
Lest We Forget – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – June 2019
Ah! Summer! That long-awaited season of warm sun, balmy winds, and blue skies. Just as Mr. Gershwin wrote:
Summertime, […]
Reflecting on Town – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – May 2019
Recently, I was having lunch with some leading citizens when one of them, Linda Kestner, spoke about her deep love for our […]
Memory Issues – by Mayor Paul Becker
A Few Minutes with the Mayor – April 2019
Why is it, the older one gets, the more difficult it is to remember recent events while the easier it is to remember something in the distant […]