Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Brave New Boomers
Annie Gowen
www.washingtonpost.com
Overview: “Area Officials Plan for a Generation That Won't Call Itself Old And Opts to Stay Put Far From Transit and Health Services.”
Boomers Political Force at the Polls
Christine Metz
www.ljworld.com
Overview: “The thought of aging baby boomers scares Lawrence public schools Superintendent Randy Weseman. And it’s not just because the 58-year-old is one of them. Since Weseman’s college days at Kansas University in the mid-1970s, he has heard warnings that the baby boomer bubble could spell trouble for schools at the turn of the millennium.”
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/16/boomers_political_force_polls/
Boomers Get Hearing Help
Tiffany Arnold
www.herald-mail.com
Overview: “It used to be that if William "Mike" Kronk were attending a lecture or concert, he'd appear to be digging in his ears. This is what would happen before he got his new hearing aids. When the noise would get too loud or too soft, he had to poke his finger in his ear to turn the volume up or down on the clunky old hearing aids resting in his ears.”
http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=174781&format=html