I guess it’s Oak Ridge bashing season again. It’s a peculiar phenomenon.
Today’s News Sentinel has a business-page story about Roane County’s recent successes in attracting industry to the county, particularly to the Roane Regional Business and Industrial Park.
In the middle of the upbeat story about Roane County’s success in getting itself onto industrial prospects’ radar [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2008’
It must be “Oak Ridge bashing” season again
Speak up for K-25 preservation!
Tuesday, February 19, is the day when local residents can tell DOE that we want the K-25 North Tower (a big structure, but a small part of the massive K-25 building) preserved to help tell the story of the Manhattan Project to future generations.
A meeting to get public input on the future of K-25 [...]
Oak Ridge has a Barnes & Noble store!?!
In the midst of Oak Ridge’s continual community gripefest about the dearth of retail, I discovered today that there’s a Barnes & Noble outlet right here in the Atomic City .
OK, it’s “just” the bookstore at the Roane State Community College campus, but it’s still a Barnes & Noble store…
Upcoming: Council’s Night Out
The next City Council “Night Out” will be held this coming Tuesday evening, February 12, 6 to 8 pm, at the Oak Ridge Civic Center, in the A/B and Club Rooms.
These “nights out” are intended to be an opportunity for citizens to meet informally (and one-on-one) with City Council members and City staff.
I’m pleased [...]
Super Tuesday robot phone calls
If Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, somebody needs to explain early voting (in Tennessee and an increasing number of other states) to the robots that dial phone calls on her behalf.
I voted in the primary last week, on the very last day of early voting. The day after early voting had ended, [...]