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By Steven Lee Myers and Marc Sartora, The New York Times, March 8, 2010. BAGHDAD - Even before the votes were tallied, Iraq's candidates and coalitions began positioning themselves in an evolving poli[...]
Articles discussing travel around the country and around the world.
By Brent Green, Author of Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers, creative director, speaker, copywriter. Posted: September 30, 2009 05:39 PM. Hewn by steady hands of Michelangelo, the seventeen-foot statue of...
Airlines Slash Fares in Response To Drop-off in Business, Leisure Trips... By Sholnn FreemanWashington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009
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Political discussion in these turbulent times.
By Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis, Los Angeles Times, Opinion, February 24, 2010. A poll debunks assumptions about the movement, showing that it's largely middle-class, college educated, white and male....
Huffington Post, Posted: February 21, 2010. During the roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week," Arianna responded to retiring Sen. Evan Bayh's (D-Ind.) claim that the major problem in Washington is...
Articles about the health issues that boomers face.
By: Shelly Gigante, CNBC. As the first wave of Baby Boomers reaches retirement age, predictions for the nation's health care system have been nothing short of apocalyptic. Many predict the...
By DAVID BROOKS, The New York Times, February 1, 2010. We like to think that in days gone by, the young venerated the elderly. But that wasn't always so. In "As...
Articles about Movies, Art, Music and other cultural topics
By MICHAEL WINERIP, The New York Times, January 23, 2009. WE sat in the editor's office trying to think of a less embarrassing name for the column. The Middle Ages? Generation B?...
Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 3, 2010, by Kyle Wingfield. Many of today's hot political debates center on the world that baby boomers will leave to younger generations. So, what kind...
Featured famous boomers
ACC Home » ACC Newsroom. After walking alone through jungle and hilly terrain for several days, a teen-age girl found the Americans she was seeking at the military hospital in...
This is the first in the series Profiling Famous Baby Boomers
Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was reared by her grandmother on a farm where she "began her broadcasting career" by...
National and international happenings that affect American boomers
By Steven Lee Myers and Marc Sartora, The New York Times, March 8, 2010. BAGHDAD - Even before the votes were tallied, Iraq's candidates and coalitions began positioning themselves in...
By Carl Hulse, The New York Times, March 4, 2010. WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday approved a $15 billion measure intended to spur job creation by granting tax breaks...
Money management topics for boomers
ABC News, By MARK GUARINO, The Christian Science MonitorFeb. 27, 2010. Early this month, a screening of the film was warmly received at both the National Tea Party Convention and...
By SEWELL CHAN, The New York Times, February 23, 2010. WASHINGTON - The Obama administration redoubled its efforts on Tuesday to overhaul the nation's financial regulations, saying it would not back...
Articles about community service and volunteerism
By Nancy Twigg, KnoxNews.com, February 8, 2010. Even as a child, Lenoir City resident and baby boomer Ed Umbach had a good idea of how his life would turn out career-wise....
By Robert Miller, The Dallas Morning News, February 4, 2010. Don't you think it's about time we dropped the adjective baby when discussing the boomer generation, especially when the boomers are...
Boomer Recreational Pursuits covering everything from walking to skydiving
By MICHAEL WINERIP, The New York Times, January 14, 2010.
Whether we want to or not, most boomers have had to embrace technology. But the promise that it's making our lives...
By Scott Willoughby, The Denver Post, December 10, 2009.
As the nation's skiing populace ages, a massive face-lift appears inevitable.
Baby boomers, long the driving force behind the sport of skiing, may...
Continuing Education Information
By BARBARA STRAUCH, New York Times, December 29, 2009. I LOVE reading history, and the shelves in my living room are lined with fat, fact-filled books. There's "The Hemingses of...
By Michael D. Shear and Daniel de Vise, Washington Post Staff, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. WARREN, Mich., July 14 -- President Obama came to this economically struggling state Tuesday with...
How Boomers are Reinventing Themselves and their Lifestyles
By Paula Span, The New York Times, March 4, 2010. Not every elderly person needs help, and not every elderly person who needs it resists it. But the No. 1...
CNBC, By: Christina Cheddar Berk, Published March 1, 2010. Baby Boomers, nearly 80 million strong, have been shaping American culture for decades. With an estimated $3 trillion in spending power,...
Articles on Career, employment and Work Issues
By: Aman Singh Das, Vault.com. A former news editor at one of the country's top mainstream newspapers gets laid off in 2008. At every interview since, she's been given the same...
By Phil Izzo, Wall Street Journal Blogs, January 5, 2010. Managing to avoid the unemployment line isn't enough to keep Americans who still have jobs happy at work. A Conference...
Business News from across the U.S. and Beyond
By: Brent Green, Marketing Strategist, Consultant and Author, CNBC Guest Blog.
A recent CNBC.com article-Bust of the Baby Boomer Economy: 'Generation Spend' Tightens Belt- proposes a gloomy economic future due to...
Mitchell's Entrepreneurs Blog, By Mitchell York, About.com Guide to Entrepreneurs
Which demographic group has a lock on entrepreneurship? Is it the Gen-Y/Millennials, which has grown up with social media, group dating and an...
This section covers news and issues revolving around retirement.
By Steve Kerch, MarketWatch. LAS VEGAS (MarketWatch) -- If your idea of a dream retirement home is a luxury contemporary overlooking a championship golf course in the desert, you better...
By Linda Stern, Newsweek Web Exclusive, December 7, 2009. Baby boomers who embraced communes back when they were hippies may end up back where they started: in small, cooperative group...
This section is all about technology breakthroughs, applications, software, hardware and the internet.
By Mathew Ingram Mar. 4, 2010, Gigaom.com. Updated: Men are more positively inclined towards social media activities and use social networking sites more than women, according to what Liberty Mutual...
MSNBC, Technology and Science, February 24, 2010. Among the findings by Pew, with most based on a survey last month of a national cross-section of 2,020 adults:
"Significantly more Millennials than...
All things entertainment: Movies, Concerts, Events, etc.
By Linda Holmes, NPR, March 8, 2010. For a popular television event, the Oscars can be pretty deadly. They can be stuffy, lame, irrelevant, and pretentious -- both haughty and...
The Examiner, by Paul Briand, February 23, 2010. The guy who wrote the book -- literally -- on the Greatest Generation will take a look at the Baby Boom Generation.CNBC...
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