Atlantic City Weekly

The ’00s Are Over

Here, off the top of my head, a few memorable moments of the decade — some terrific, some tragic: September 11th; global terrorism; war in Iraq and Afghanistan; Hurricane Katrina disgrace; the boom and bust of the real estate bubble; global economic collapse; the advent of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, iPods and iPhones; BlackBerrys; Barack Obama — our first African-American president; the collapse of the recording industry; the national trend of the shutting down of mom and pop stores; Al Qaeda; the Red Sox (and...