9 results for "Rob Turner"
Viewpoints: A tour a day, that's all he asks of Blue Diamond
Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 12:00 AMIt's finally happening. There's been a lot of talk in recent years about Sacramento capitalizing on its natural geographic advantage in the heart of one of the most fertile agricultural regions in the world, but it hasn't gained much...
Viewpoints: State Fair deserves a blueprint for a bold future
Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 12:00 AMWhen Walt Disney opened Disneyland in 1955, he famously remarked, "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
City proclaims its identity with public artwork
Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 12:00 AMWhen the Sacramento International Airport's new billion-dollar terminal opened in late 2011, its cultural pièce de résistance was the 56-foot-long aluminum red hare that appears to leap into the building from the outside.
Viewpoints: Now let's restore the Senator Hotel to its past glories
Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 12:00 AMIt's not easy to find silver linings in an economy like this one, but if the forces that are propelling the slumping office market end up restoring one of the city's most storied buildings to its former glory, some good will certainly ha...
In the Spotlight: Let's honor local heroes when naming our schools
Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 12:00 AMWith a new school year just around the corner, kids all over the region will soon be filing into schools whose names include Jonas Salk, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Susan B. Anthony.
Viewpoints: Gem of a building deserves new life
Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 12:00 AMIn the 1930s, with the country suffering through the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated an economic stimulus plan that precipitated the construction of thousands of new federal projects across the country.
Viewpoints: Area residents should invest in 'little theater that could'
Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 12:00 AMIn 1991, as a young reporter, I was invited to cover a press conference for a new theater company in Sacramento. Unlike other local press conferences, this one had a bit of star power to it.
Viewpoints: Weak-mayor system holding us back
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 12:00 AMBack in 1841, not long before Sacramento established its first city charter, a young Bostonian by the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson published an essay titled "Self-Reliance," and in it he penned these words: "A foolish consistency i...
Viewpoints: Think bold in Capitol Mall redesign
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 12:00 AMFor decades, with a few notable exceptions, Capitol Mall has been Sacramento's boulevard of broken dreams.
