http://www.seniorstatesmen.org Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:04:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_75" align="alignleft" width="135" caption="Sally Thomas"][/caption] Sally Thomas has represented the Samuel Miller district since 1994 when she first won election to the board in 1993 as an independent write-in candidate over Carter Myers by a margin of 192 votes. In all elections since (1997, 2001 and 2005), she has run ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/01/18/sally-thomas-16-years-on-the-albemarle-county-board-of-supervisors/ [caption id="attachment_73" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Gene Ecton Davis"][/caption] On the second Wednesday of each month, the Senior Statesmen of Virginia present outstanding speakers of local and regional interest. In December, they met to reflect on the past and future of their organization. SSV founding member and past president Gene Ecton Davis spoke at ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/12/19/a-history-of-the-senior-statesmen-of-virginia/ Billie Campbell Billie Campbell, chief operating officer for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC), spoke at our November 11, 2009 meeting. The TJPDC is one of 21 planning district commissions in Virginia established by the General Assembly under the Virginia Area Development Act in 1969. TJPDC has six member jurisdictions: ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/11/18/the-thomas-jefferson-planning-district-commission/ On October 14th, the Senior Statesmen of Virginia and the Charlottesville Senior Center cosponsored a candidates forum featuring the candidates for the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors: Jack Jouett District: incumbent Dennis Rooker (I); Rio District: incumbent David Slutzky (D), and challenger Rodney Thomas (R); Samuel Miller District: Madison Cummings ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/10/18/candidates-forum-albemarle-county-board-of-supervisors/ Laura Feldman Laura Feldman could be termed a "Washington Insider." As a long-term organizer for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the leading nonpartisan advocacy group in the country for Social Security and Medicare, she has expert knowledge on the issue of health care reform, how it will ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/09/12/a-view-from-the-hill-social-security-and-medicare-where-from-here/ On Wednesday August 12, 2009, The Senior Statesmen of Virginia and The Charlottesville Senior Center, Inc., co-sponsored a CANDIDATES SHOWCASE featuring the candidates for the House of Delegates seats serving the Charlottesville-Albemarle area: Rob Bell, Steve Landes, Greg Marrow, Cynthia Neff, Brandon Smith and David Toscano. The candidates made brief ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/08/28/virginia-house-of-delegates-candidates-showcase/ Past programs with podcasts can be seen by scrolling below. RESCHEDULED TO MARCH DUE TO SNOW Wednesday, March 10, 2010:  From 1:30 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. at the Senior Center. "The State of the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County" Dave Norris, Mayor of Charlottesville and Ann Mallek Chairman of the Albemarle County ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/07/19/future-programs/ [caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="357" caption="Donna Goings, Robert Graham and David Shreve"][/caption] Panelists Donna Goings,  Robert Graham and David Shreve examined the problems with today’s health care system, their origins and how they would be addressed by a proposed national health insurance program. The panel included the perspectives of a consumer/patient, ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/06/10/health-insurance-the-problem-the-solution/ Virginia House of Delegates members Rob Bell and David Toscano provided their perspectives on the issues that came before the 2009 legislature at the May 13, 2009 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia held at the Charlottesville Senior Center. An honors graduate of the University of Virginia and the University ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/05/13/may-2009-meeting-the-2009-general-assembly-session/ John Martin John W. Martin, CEO of the Southeastern Institute of Research, spoke at the April 8, 2009 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia on the Older Dominion Partnership (ODP), an initiative by business, government, foundations and non-profits to help Virginia prepare for the coming boomer age wave. The ODP is ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/04/08/the-older-dominion-partnership-how-virginia-is-preparing-to-ride-the-age-wave/