As President Obama spoke on health care reform Wednesday, upstate senior citizens were anxious to hear what he had to say.

My wife’s fortieth high school reunion last weekend turned out to be fun and a most interesting life lesson.

A lesson in what retirement may be like, and in some cases, should be like.

First let me be honest and tell you I really didn’t want to go.  I figured since it wasn’t my high school class, I would be bored.  But knowing it was important to Gayle that I go, I decided to make the best of it.  After all, I really only had to do two things:  (1) dress nicely and (2) not say anything stupid or that would embarrass Gayle.

The reunion was in Salisbury, North Carolina.  My wife was in the 1969 graduating class of Boyden High School, the last class before the school was renamed Salisbury High School.

According to Robert Hoskins, the attorney for the officers in the case, some officers—including several former chiefs of police—were suing the city of Greenville because the city decided to withdraw retirement benefits effective Jan. 1.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is offering a bleak assessment of the impact of the current financial crisis.