Oak Ridge got some positive buzz today! The city is number 3 on Money magazine’s list of “Where homes are affordable” — “Residents who live in these 25 growing towns see their incomes go the furthest.” The profile of Oak Ridge says our median home price is $102,950 while median annual family income is $72,770 [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Guns in parks
The issue of guns in municipal parks has aroused a lot of emotion and is generating a lot of e-mail to City Council members. On one side are people are strong proponents of gun rights and residents who believe that having a concealed gun when they are in a public place helps to ensure their [...]
It’s not your imagination — utility rates have gone up
An e-mail from a resident reminds me that there’s lots of public discussion about tax rates, but little public/media attention when city electric, water, and wastewater rates go up — even though most of us pay more for city utilities than we do for city property taxes.
I think the resident was hoping that there was [...]
Oak Ridge and the downside of derivatives trading
After headlines earlier this year about Tennessee local governments suffering losses after getting involved in interest rate swaps for their municipal bonds (see New York Times on April 8 and April 10, the Associated Press on April 8, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Chattanooga Times-Free Press on April 10 ) people are talking about [...]
4th of July fireworks in Oak Ridge in 2009
Since this blog has started getting search-engine hits from people looking for info about July 4th fireworks, here’s a link to the Oak Ridger story about fireworks this year: Oak Ridger article, July 3, 2009
The city-sponsored fireworks show is Saturday evening at 10 pm at the Melton Lake Marina. Traffic and parking could be a [...]