Return to Main Page Find Members Contact Us About us Invite a friend
Polls Articles Blogs Forums Groups
Articles
Latest Article
September 2, 2010Health & Wellness
By Gwendolyn Bounds, The Wall Street Journal. Every week, Greg Berman squeezes in a total-body workout at home. He doesn't lift barbells and there's no room in his 1,000-square foot condo for a treadm[...]
Articles discussing travel around the country and around the world.
By GARY A. WARNER, Orange County Register, Register Travel Editor. Sunday marks the 65th anniversary of the "conception" of the Baby Boom. Though US Census says the Baby Boom covers births...
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...
Political discussion in these turbulent times.
By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, August 25, 2010. A rapidly weakening economy threatens to undermine President Obama's assertion that he has set the nation on a path to prosperity and, with...
Time.com, By Mark Halperin. In a move as predictable as Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to gain ground before the...
Articles about the health issues that boomers face.
By Gwendolyn Bounds, The Wall Street Journal. Every week, Greg Berman squeezes in a total-body workout at home. He doesn't lift barbells and there's no room in his 1,000-square foot...
PressofAtlanticCity.com, by Vincent Jackson. EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - Janet Fleishman's life changed after her sister told her the results of her palm reading. Fleishman, of Linwood, heard she has a long...
Articles about Movies, Art, Music and other cultural topics
By Dr. David Katz,MD. The Huffington Post. Any gardener knows that to solve a weedy problem, you have to get it at its roots. There are more than six billion...
 By Tony Bradley at PC World. The growth of social networking is being led by more mature users, but Facebook ads don't take the senior population into account. Although social...
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
The Washington Post, by the Associated Press, August 30, 2010. WASHINGTON -- The White House says there are two words President Barack Obama will not say Tuesday night in his...
By Felicia Sonmez, Washington Post Staff, August 30, 2010. Conservative commentator Glenn Beck voiced sharper criticism of President Obama's religious beliefs on Sunday than he and other speakers offered from...
Money management topics for boomers
Engage Boomers, By Matt Thornhill. Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran a story headlined, "Another Threat to Economy: Boomers Cutting Back." In it, the reporter made the case that...
By Laurie Turner, Memphis Daily News. How are you marketing to the generation that represents nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population and a whopping 80 percent of personal financial...
Articles about community service and volunteerism
by Aaron Baar, MediaPost, May 12, 2010.  Facebook may have started as the province of the young, but it appeals to all types now, including Baby Boomers. So much so that one...
TheNewsTribune.com, The Olympian, April 24, 2010. Having been born in the 1940s and grown up in the '50s and '60s, I guess I'm considered a baby boomer. I remember well the...
Boomer Recreational Pursuits covering everything from walking to skydiving
MSNBC, Reuters, April 7, 2010. NEW YORK - As the number of baby boomers taking to the road on motorbikes has risen, so has the average age of motorcyclists involved...
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...
Continuing Education Information
By Dave Carpenter, AP. CHICAGO - From continuing education and enrichment classes to graduate school, many of America's retirees are pursuing their interests at the college level. It's a trend...
Philly.com, by Melanie Wanzek, CTW Features. In a tough job market, more adults are seeking education as a way to sidestep the hiring slump, retrain or better position themselves for the...
How Boomers are Reinventing Themselves and their Lifestyles
FinancialAdvisor.com. (Dow Jones) Some people say they want things like an Internet connection and an annual family vacation, while other say they feel they need such things. The same may...
CNBC. By: Joseph F. Coughlin. Founder and Director, MIT AgeLab. Perennially youthful, but no longer young, the nation's largest generation is now well into middle age and beyond. Born between...
Articles on Career, employment and Work Issues
By Belinda Luscombe, Time.com. The fact that the average American working woman earns only about 8o% of what the average American working man earns has been something of a festering...
NPR.com, by NPR Staff.  Employee performance reviews should be eliminated, according to UCLA business professor Samuel Culbert. "First, they're dishonest and fraudulent. And second, they're just plain bad management," he...
Business News from across the U.S. and Beyond
By Sydney Lagier, U.S. News and World Report. The tip of the baby boom iceberg has just started melting into retirement. As tends to be the case with this generation,...
R&D, By The University of Illinois. August 2, 2010. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Businesses that look only at age to bridge generational gaps among workers risk losing knowledge to retirements, higher...
This section covers news and issues revolving around retirement.
By Christine Dugas, USA Today. Baby Boomers approaching retirement age are in for a rude awakening. Many want to keep working, knowing that they likely will live well into their...
By Aaron Crowe, Walletpop. Golf and playing cards aren't the only things to do in retirement. At least not at many retirement communities, which specialize in unusual activities or cater...
This section is all about technology breakthroughs, applications, software, hardware and the internet.
Time.com. By AP. (ATLANTA) - Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday it's launched a new "Ticket Window" on Facebook that will allow passengers to book directly on the social media...
Times Topics, The New York Times, August 5, 2010. The concept of "net neutrality'' holds that companies providing Internet service should treat all sources of data equally. It has been...
All things entertainment: Movies, Concerts, Events, etc.
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, The New York Times, May 27, 2010. Lee DeWyze came out ahead of Crystal Bowersox in the finale of "American Idol" on Wednesday night but it wasn't...
By Danny Shea, Huffington Post, May 12, 2010. Diane Sawyer cut the gap between her "World News" and first-place "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" last week to the smallest margin...
Powered by:
BoonEx - Community Software; Dating And Social Networking Scripts; Video Chat And More.
Copyright © 2010 Boomer Opinion, Inc. All rights reserved.
Baby Boomers, Boomers, Polls and Surveys, Social Networking, Groups, Membership, Community, Forums, Blogs, Insight of the Day, news