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‘Buy American’ — Guess Who Does It Most

Posted on 05/3/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Money & SavingsA lot of Americans bemoan the number of factory jobs that have been outsourced or lost to foreign competition over the past few decades. But when it comes to supporting companies that make their products in the United States, it’s older Americans who are most willing to step up and let their money do the talking. That’s the finding of two recent polls, which show that boomers and their predecessors in the “Eisenhower Generation” (ages 67 and older) are the …

10 Surprising Facts about America’s Champions of Aging

Posted on 05/3/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyCelebrating May as Older Americans Month offers the perfect time to remember leaders who helped to build a nation that respects and protects its older citizens. A new AARP website feature called Champions of Aging does precisely that. All 10 made contributions that changed America for the better, and created opportunities for those in their 50s, 60s and beyond to lead healthier, more financially secure, and more meaningful and enjoyable lives. Some of the champions’ names are better know than …

The Rolling Stones: 5 of Their Most Outrageous Tour Moments

Posted on 05/2/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentThe ancient Greeks had the Dionysian mysteries, when they would abandon propriety, dance wildly in a trance-like state and revel in various sorts of intoxicated excess. For boomers, that sounds eerily similar to Rolling Stones concerts of our youth. A 1972 Associated Press account of a Stones show at Philadelphia’s Spectrum arena – “a festival of heat, hysteria, perfume, sweat, marijuana smoke and deafening music inside” — merely grazes the surface of the hedonistic mass ritual. Related: The Stones’ 50 …

George Jones: 10 Facts About the Country Music Legend

Posted on 04/26/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyGeorge Jones, who died on April 26 at age 81 in Nashville, was such a giant in the world of country music that a song Jim Lauderdale wrote about him, “The King of Broken Hearts,” became a hit for George Strait. And that was a fitting appellation. Jones, who possessed a superlative, pitch-perfect baritone — Frank Sinatra reportedly once called him “the second greatest singer in the world” — was royalty as a vocalist. But he also exemplified the tension between …

Richie Havens: 10 Facts About the ‘Woodstock’ Legend

Posted on 04/23/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | LegacyPerhaps the ultimate tribute to guitarist-folksinger Richie Havens, who died on April 22 at age 72 in Jersey City, N.J., is that a Beatle once likened himself to Havens. In a 1971 Rolling Stone interview, John Lennon initially garbled Havens’ name, confusing him with the Mexican-American singer who did “La Bomba.” But it was clear that he dug Havens’ unorthodox, self-taught guitar style. I think there’s a guy called Richie Valens, no, Richie Havens, does he play very strange guitar? …

Al Neuharth: 5 Ways USA Today’s Founder Changed the Newspaper

Posted on 04/21/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyThere are two schools of thought about USA Today founder Al Neuharth, who died on April 19 at age 89 in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Some think he helped ruin the newspaper, an institution older than our country itself, by turning it into a paper-and-ink imitation of TV news. Others think he helped modernized a desperately outdated medium and, in so doing, perhaps staved off its demise. Either way you choose to look at it, though, the former Gannett CEO was …

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