Phew! This year’s Secret City Festival was a big success but it’s a relief that it’s over, and a relief that we made it through last evening’s marathon City Council meeting.
We had a long agenda and a long meeting. Kudos to John Huotari for quickly spinning out reports on two of the major business items [...]
Posts under ‘Senior Citizens’
Senior citizen drivers may not be more dangerous, after all
Good news for families or communities with older drivers — and good news for all of us who expect to get older. It seems that the higher rate of auto accident fatalities for older drivers is not because they are bad drivers, but because they are more frail. This suggests that the number of senior [...]
The senior center shuffle
The long-simmering senior center issue moved to the front burner in recent weeks. City Council members have heard plenty about the topic from senior center users who are vehement in stating the need for a new center, and we’ve heard backlash from other citizens who perceive the senior center supporters to be a whiny special [...]
Injustice for Oak Ridge retirees — and the whole community
Time passes, and retirees from DOE’s Oak Ridge facilities continue to watch their buying power erode, with no hint that they will ever see another pension increase.
This whole community is hurting as a result, since the people who are being denied an increase are solid citizens who are now less likely to be able to [...]
Retirees deserve better
A recurrent topic of discussion in Oak Ridge is the economy — and what should or could be done to improve local tax revenues.
There are plenty of ideas, of course, but it seems to me that the single most positive thing that could and should be done is to gain fairer treatment for the retirees [...]