I can’t answer my question “Can Oak Ridge adapt to the world of the future?”
Obviously, I hope the answer is “yes,” but I know there will be unanticipated challenges. (Life is like that.)
I do know that our city was largely built around the needs of American society in the middle decades of the 20th century. In particular, most of [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Can Oak Ridge adapt to the world of the future?
Protecting our kids on the trip to and from school
At this special time of the year, I can only imagine the feelings of the family of Ashley Paine. My heart goes out to them…
Ashley’s tragic death in early November focused attention on the safety of our children when they travel back and forth to school.
City Council cannot tell the school system how to operate [...]
Is Knoxville’s paper trying to annex Oak Ridge?
Hmm… A few days ago I noticed that the Knoxville News Sentinel had started including Oak Ridge obituaries under “Knox County” (not every day, but intermittently). Now I see that the News Sentinel delivered to our house today includes a “West Knox” section. Does the Knoxville newspaper want to annex Oak Ridge into Knox [...]
Lobbyist contracts renewed
As the local newspapers have reported, on December 17 Council voted 6-1 to renew the Ferguson Group lobbying contract (I was opposed) and 7-0 to renew the contract will Bill Nolan Associates.
There was little discussion of the matter at the meeting, but it appeared that other Council members’ votes on the Ferguson contract were [...]
Council committee votes on lobbyists
The headline in the Friday, November 30 Oak Ridger said Lobbyists earn 2-1 vote of confidence. The article about the City Council Intergovernmental Relations Committee meeting the day before said that I voted against the “rehiring” of “the city’s federal lobbyist, The Ferguson Group of Washington, D.C., and the city’s state lobbyist, Bill Nolan & [...]