POSSIBLE CONGESTION: If your Gwinnett driving takes you through Norcross, a detour could cost you added time. Beginning Monday, Holcomb Bridge Road at the Norfolk Southern Railroad will be closed, as construction starts on reducing the “hump” over the railroad, which is the Eastern Continental Divide there. Over the years, long bed trucks have often become stuck on the crossing, even though the area is marked “No trucks.” At times, trains have struck vehicles hung up on the crossing. The construction work will raise the western side of the roadway, reducing the hump, and will take up to three months. Traffic is being detoured one exit northward, to Jones Street by Thrasher Park, and is expected to be crowded during this construction.
IN THIS EDITIONTODAY’S FOCUS: Looking at MARTA Referendum in Gwinnett from Afar
EEB PERSPECTIVE: It’s Not Always Easy To Be Fair to All in the Media Business
SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center
FEEDBACK: Thousands Spent To Save Children with Permanent Birth Defects
UPCOMING: Lilburn Is Erecting Gateway monument On U.S. 29 at Pleasant Hill Road
NOTABLE: GGC’s Dr. Binh Tran Wins University System’s Highest Award
RECOMMENDED: Life Is Hard, Soften It with Laughter, by Marlene Buchanan
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit Is Greeted with Controversy
MYSTERY PHOTO: Perhaps Today’s Mystery Photo Is Too Obvious
CALENDAR: MARTA Discussion at United Peachtree Corners Association Feb. 25
TODAY’S FOCUSLooking at MARTA referendum in Gwinnett from afar
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | Back in the 1960s, I remember the controversy over MARTA. The Legislature created MARTA in 1965 and envisioned all of the Metro Atlanta counties being in it. The problem was non-existent state funding (although permitted under law), a travesty which still exists today because of the rural and suburban counties hesitation to support urban areas (I know, as a rural County Commissioner for two terms).
Therefore, each of the five Metro counties had to pass a referendum to get a one percent sales tax for the purpose of public transportation. Fulton and DeKalb did. City of Atlanta people like me were already using buses and supported bus route expansion as well as the promised addition of rapid transit.
Clayton, Cobb and Gwinnett failed to do so (I will not go into the complicated details). In the opinion of Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell (and mine, having been there at the time), these counties turned MARTA down because of fear and ingrained racism. All three counties were overwhelmingly white and I believe afraid of housing integration, school integration and black on white crime.
Since that time, without rapid transit or extensive regional bus service, all three counties have become very diverse racially. So much for the racist view that halting expansion of public transportation would stop integration. The counties have also changed in many other ways, including becoming some of the more congested counties in America, not just in Georgia.
I was with Equal Opportunity America, the Atlanta area poverty program, back in the early 1970s. I visited the center in Gwinnett frequently. Gwinnett was very conservative and mostly rural, without any traffic to speak of, and in 1970 the population at 72,349. It is not the situation today. It’s even very different than when my brother lived in Gwinnett in the 1990s (population 352,910), since today its estimated the 2019 population is 950,000.
Frankly, the voters in Cobb and Clayton now believe that they made a mistake not joining MARTA back then. They have begun to correct their error, especially in Clayton in a recent vote.
It’s now time for Gwinnett to finally do the same. Rapid transit will bring a host of benefits, regardless of the race/ethnicity of the riders using MARTA.
First, it will get autos off Gwinnett’s increasingly congested roads (two thirds of MARTA riders own cars), and immensely improving resident quality of life. Second, rapid transit will enhance Gwinnett’s ability to attract desirable businesses, providing high paying jobs. Dan Kaufman, the CEO of the Gwinnett Chamber, supports expansion of MARTA into Gwinnett for these reasons. You should as well.
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It’s not always easy to be fair to all in the media business
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
FEB. 19, 2019 | It’s not always easy to be fair.
Sometimes in attempting to be fair, you are skewing the process, and before you realize it, you are either being not fair, or over-fair.
Some media go to great lengths to try to be fair. If an issue is raised, they seek to find the viewpoints of both sides of the question.
But sometimes, that becomes unreasonable, and overly fair to the weaker side.
Let’s say that 75 percent of the people favor an issue. If the media seek to give one viewpoint in favor of that issue, and the other viewpoint condemning that issue, that’s grossly unfair. The people favor the issue 3:1, but the media coverage makes that issue 1:1.
In this case, “being fair” can easily skew the question.
You can see that in the daily Atlanta newspaper’s coverage of Letters to the Editor. On days when there is even an opinion page (five out of seven days), they usually have two letters, one for, the other against, any issue. Everything isn’t 50/50. We suspect the people of Metro Atlanta are not that easily divided on most issues. So being “fair to both sides” obviously isn’t fair.
What if the AJC got in letters to the editor leaning 90 percent one way? Should nine out of ten letters be printed showing that division? Obviously, the newspaper doesn’t have room for that many questions. It might help occasionally to devote a whole page to a single issue, and let the ratio of letters on that issue be reflected by the number printed on each side.
Where all this “fairness” came from is because of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At one time, the FCC required broadcast stations to present “both sides” of issue, or if not, their broadcast licenses could be in jeopardy. Somehow, eventually that translated that newspapers (or any other media) should be fair, and that has skewed the question since. Remember many newspapers were founded to be partisan and one-sided, shown in the Kankakee Republican, or Arkansas Democrat and others.
So today, with that thinking, you see the so-called “fairness doctrine” introduced into all kind of issues. Many times the mere introduction of presenting both sides sends the report into unfairness.
You can transfer the fairness question as the AJC sought to present another viewpoint in the upcoming referendum in Gwinnett about rapid transit. The vote is set for March 16.
How will the vote go? We think that enough people have moved into Gwinnett since the last MARTA vote (1991) and that these days most people favor rapid transit. Many of those people have moved from areas where there is ample rapid transit, and cannot understand why Gwinnett hasn’t already gone that route.
We could be wrong. That’s why votes are held on major questions like this. Though we suspect there is a minority against using a one cent sales tax to support rapid transit in Gwinnett, we’ll have to wait until March 16 to find out.
But you must wonder: will the very effort to find some people against funding rapid transit with a one cent sales tax cause the news coverage to be skewed?
It’s another case of the difficulty that news media finds itself in when trying to be fair.
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Thousands spent to save children with permanent birth defects
Editor, the Forum:
Let me challenge the author of the Author Gives Her View On Partial Birth Abortion opinion in the most recent GwinnettForum.
All a person has to do is visit the facts to see the thousands and thousands of dollars spent on children who were unfortunate to stay the nine months it takes to fully develop into a person. Volunteer at special homes where children that should have been aborted by nature but weren’t have to live a life tied to a bed because of all the machines keeping them alive.
If the Republicans, the evangelicals and the anti-abortion folks have their way, a woman whose child died in utero but did not have a spontaneous abortion (a legal term for miscarriage) would have to wait until it’s deemed ready to be delivered. It happens more times than you think, which is why a late-term abortion is necessary.
The aforementioned group of people would have everyone believe late term abortion happens all the time, but it doesn’t. In fact, it is very rare and only done in the most extreme circumstances. Most of nature’s mistakes are spontaneously aborted, and usually in the early stages of gestation of pregnancy. But sometimes it doesn’t happen and then it is up to the mother and doctor to decide what direction they want to take concerning the welfare of all concerned. Late term abortion is not abortion on demand, it’s a medical decision.
None of us can actually walk in the shoes of a woman who has to make the hardest decision of her life, so we can not fully understand the emotional toll it takes. If true anti-abortion folks really want to keep these children alive, then they should start supporting them instead of walking away once they are born and tied to the life-saving machines they are hooked up to.
Thank you for allowing me to be anonymous on this issue. I understand my argument would be stronger if I didn’t hide, but I don’t want to give anyone “ammunition” to continue to tear down any kind of discussion that I hope will come out of this. As a woman, and a mother, I do understand the agony these women must feel to make such a decision and applaud their strength to go through something that would break most people. These aren’t caviler decisions to stop pregnancy and as I said, it’s very rare for women to decide to go through a late-term abortion.
Again, thank you for giving a voice for the other side.
— Name Withheld, Lawrenceville
Likens present-day USA to the years of the Roman republic
Editor, the Forum:
Most view the beginning of the Roman Republic as 509 BC with the overthrowing of the Roman Kingdom. It ended in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. The Senate became useless in conducting the business of the people or the expanding empire.
Are we evolving to an imperial autocrat executive as the only way to successfully get anything done? Our legislature seems so bogged down in divisions and partisan team play, that nothing is produced. Nothing gets done, and the people suffer.
I remember visiting a friend who had gone on to law school. I was in my senior year, and I was thinking about law school. He told me that he felt it wasn’t for me, because he was being trained to keep things from happening. That always stayed with me, and Congress is mostly lawyers putting roadblocks in front of each other to the point of standstill. It only has eight percent approval.
The last few presidents have had to go it alone and precedence is expanding. It makes me wonder how things went in Rome, though I believe it was one fell swoop. Ours is a slow leak with the stream getting stronger and stronger. We are in the imperial American presidential time, the only way to accomplish anything.
Will each side of our divided country use this as the way to get big policies in place? Most likely, but the policy can be changed with the change in leadership. Courts will be ever more important with certain challenges, but much will stay in place for years and may become acceptable. Imbalance in our three part government will be disruptive and will cause big swings and instability.
Should be interesting times ahead in our Republic.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
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UPCOMINGLilburn is erecting gateway monument on U.S. 29 at Pleasant Hill Road
Motorists traveling along U.S. Highway 29 will soon have a new gateway monument welcoming them to the City of Lilburn
Construction began last week on a 25 foot tall gateway monument, being installed at the corner of Pleasant Hill Road and U.S. Highway 29. The brick structure will have a seating wall around the base and feature the city’s name illuminated near the center of the monument. The monument is being positioned so it may be seen from various angles at the intersection.
City Manager Bill Johnsa says: “The monument reflects the pride Lilburn residents have for their community and it will let everyone know that they’re in the City of Lilburn. I see it becoming a popular photo spot for both visitors and residents.”
Local vendor, Capital Signs, Inc., is constructing the monument, which is scheduled to be completed in mid-March. The eventual plan for the monument includes sidewalks in front of the monument and landscaping around the area. The city is also exploring additional gateway signs at other entry points to the city.
The gateway monument is just one example of the growth and development taking place throughout the city. At Lilburn City Park, the new, expanded playground is expected to be completed in the next few weeks. A new parking lot is also being added to Lilburn City Park and construction of a new restroom facility at the park will begin soon.
The new Lilburn Police Department and Municipal Court building is under construction on Lawrenceville Highway, scheduled to be completed later this year. Private development is also booming in Lilburn. Over 500 residential units are currently planned or under development in the city. In downtown Lilburn, a large mixed use project is being constructed across from Lilburn City Park that will include townhomes and future storefronts along Main Street.
GACS Concert Choir will perform in March at Carnegie Hall
The Concert Choir at Greater Atlantic Christian (GAC) School has performed in many places beyond its campus borders, but soon it will travel to make its first-ever appearance on New York’s legendary concert stage, Carnegie Hall. That will be on Saturday, March 23 at 7 p.m., as part of MidAmerica Productions’ 36th annual concert season.
The GAC School Concert Choir will be an integral part of a larger group performing Morten Lauridsen’s contemporary classic, Lux Aeterna, under the baton of conductor John Ratledge, with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
Dr. Marcus Miller, GAC director of the Concert Choir, says: “This is something we’ve been working towards for a long time. Students can thrive in the arts at GAC, but it’s important we show them that their artistic aspirations can take them anywhere, including to the greatest concert stage in America.”
Greater Atlanta Christian School Concert Choir will share the stage, as part of a chorus of more than 135, with the following participating choirs:
- Middletown Concert Chorale, Middletown, N.Y.;
- Hillcrest High School Ensemble, Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
- Chancel Choir of First United Methodist Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and
- Wagner College Choir, Staten Island, N.Y.
GGC’s Tran wins university system’s highest award
Dr. and Mrs. Binh Tran are shown with Gov. Brian Kemp when Tran was presented with the Hall of Fame Faculty Award.
Dr. Binh Tran, assistant professor of information technology (IT) in the School of Science and Technology at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), received a 2019 Felton Jenkins Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award at the 15th Annual Regent’s Scholarship Gala recently. The University System of Georgia’s highest faculty honor, the award has been earned by seven GGC faculty members since the college opened in 2006.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech, Tran worked in local industry as an IT infrastructure specialist, with experience as a computer hardware engineer, network administrator, designer and test engineering manager. Tran later earned his master’s degrees in IT and business administration. He obtained his first teaching job while completing his doctorate in business administration in information systems.
At Georgia Gwinnett, Tran teaches courses focused on the hardware and networking aspects of computing. His passion for teaching and computers, and his industry experience inspire his innovative, holistic approach to education. He says: “My goal is to transform students into professionals ready for work. I teach both the technical and soft skills they need.”
Knowing that students need both a bachelor’s degree and certifications to obtain jobs, Tran developed a course that includes preparation for the Microsoft Technology Associate certification exam. So far, his students have achieved an impressive 90-percent pass rate and he is working to develop additional courses tied to networking and cloud computing certifications.
Several Sugar Hill venues win “Best in County” awards
Sugar Hill’s already award-wining Bowl amphitheater has been named the Best Concert Venue in Gwinnett County by Gwinnett Magazine. Located in the heart of Sugar Hill’s growing downtown, the Bowl features incredible stage views from every section, luxury suites, and an open atmosphere for concert lovers to enjoy performances.
In additional to the Bowl, several other venues and recreation opportunities in Sugar Hill earned recognition as the Best of Gwinnett. Sugar Hill’s annual Sugar Rush festival was named Best Festival for 2018 and the new Eagle Theatre, an art-deco style performing arts center, was included among the Best Concert Venues. The Suite Spot, a co-working and incubator space in downtown Sugar Hill, was included among the Best Places to Work and the Sugar Hill Golf Club was also included among the Best Golf Clubs in the county.
Those who haven’t had a chance to visit these award winning venues or attend an event in Sugar Hill will have plenty of opportunity in 2019 to stop by and see for yourself why life is sweeter in Sugar Hill. A full events calendar with concerts, festivals, family activities, movie nights, and more is expected to be released soon at www.cityofsugarhill.com.
Dacula legislator introduces anti-human trafficking protective act
State Representative Chuck Efstration (R-Dacula) recently introduced House Bill 234, the Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act. The act would provide additional safety measures and protections against human trafficking.
Efstration
Rep. Efstration says: “HB 234 gives law enforcement tools to investigate and prosecute those who enable human trafficking by expanding Georgia’s criminal and nuisance laws. The bill also provides that rescued child victims should receive trauma-informed treatment rather than being subjected to arrest and treatment as a criminal.”
The Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act would also allow the Department of Family and Children Services the ability to provide more care and supervision to children who are victims of human trafficking. Additionally, HB 234 would expand current prohibitions against trafficking of persons, while also increasing penalties for certain sex crimes and will allow investigators to have more access to the locations where the crimes take place.
Coca-Cola announces long-term partnership with Mitsubishi Classic
Officials of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic have announced a long-term partnership with Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, continuing its relationship as the exclusive non-alcoholic beverage partner for the event. Coca-Cola will provide a wide variety of products to the tournament, including soft drinks, water, sports drinks, teas, coffees, juices, and other beverage options.
The Lawrenceville division of Coca-Cola United has a 10-year contract with the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, which will allow the philanthropic-inclined company to continue enhancing the Duluth community with its timeless products.
The 2019 Mitsubishi Electric Classic will take place April 15-21, 2019 at TPC Sugarloaf. The public may visit www.mitsubishielectricclassic.com/tickets to purchase tickets. Kids 16 and under can attend for free with a ticketed adult, and daily tickets start at $20.
RECOMMENDEDLife Is Hard, Soften It with Laugher, by Marlene Buchanan
From Sandy Williams, Grayson: This book is a gift of poignant insight into the human spirit’s journey. Marlene Buchanan reminds you with humor and humility that you are not traveling alone. Her essays capture the essence of Southern culture. You may need to plow a field, literally, or put your pearls on for a funeral, but you do so with the inner strength, courage and laughter all of which you were generously served from childhood along with your strictly rationed Coca Cola. Being able to laugh will not change the circumstance, but certainly affords the opportunity to embrace that moment and those you love. From cancer diagnosis, memories of the childhood bully to admitting to perusing the obituaries, Marlene gently allows us to share her life and humor. Read this book to enjoy a feast of life. Marlene has captured the red clay spirit of an abundant heart filled with wisdom, insight, and humor!
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Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit is greeted with controversy
In hindsight, the controversy that greeted the publication of Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit in 1944 seems unusually heated today. This novel of interracial love was denounced in many places for its “obscenity,” although sex is barely mentioned. Massachusetts banned it for a short time; so did the U.S. Post Office. But the book has had many admirers in the years since its publication. It was a commercial success—a best-seller, a Broadway play briefly—and it remains in print in many languages. From her home atop Old Screamer Mountain near Clayton, in Rabun County, Smith knew that many of her neighbors had bought the book, but in public they snubbed her.
Smith
In 1949 she unleashed another diatribe against racism in an imaginative autobiography, Killers of the Dream, widely considered to be her best book. In Strange Fruit and subsequent writings, Smith attempted to untangle and expose the web of white racism, gender, class, religion, and myriad traditions she thought had put a straitjacket on what her contemporary and admirer, W. J. Cash, called “the mind of the South.” She was the first white southerner of any prominence to denounce not just racism but segregation.
Strange Fruit is set in the imaginary small south Georgia town of Maxwell, modeled obviously on the town of Jasper, Fla., Smith’s birthplace and home for her first 17 years. The novel’s central events, set against a week of religious revival in August, occur immediately after World War I(1917-18). Tracy Deen, son of middle-class but pretentious white parents, has just returned from a stint in the army. He and Nonnie Anderson, a younger, pretty, light-skinned African American who has been in love with him since she was a very young girl, immediately find themselves in each other’s arms.
When Nonnie learns that she is pregnant, she allows herself to hope that Tracy will be as happy as she is. He isn’t.
Every southern social force—racism, religious fundamentalism, class conflict—is at war in the dilemma and dreams of the two protagonists, and the consequence is nothing but tragedy for everyone, even Tracy’s innocent, simpleminded black boyhood friend. Lillian Smith was earnest and idealistic, more a social critic than a novelist. She never missed a chance to denounce the corrosiveness of traditions.
Smith always believed her novel had been deliberately underrated and misunderstood. She deeply resented criticism from prominent white moderates such as Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill.
Smith’s attitude toward the novel also seemed to change over time. In 1961 she rebuked a literary agent who was trying to negotiate a film version. No one admitted that her novel was a masterpiece, Smith said; people erroneously still viewed the book as being simply about race relations. She said her novel was not about race (which it surely was) but instead was a fantasy in which she was every character. Whatever else it might be, Strange Fruit is about relationships, crossing lines, breaking rules, being different, rejecting prescribed rules, transcending categories, and those “racial abstractions” that Smith often said existed only to divide and conquer and corrupt their victims.
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Perhaps Today’s Mystery Photo is too obvious
Today’s Mystery Photo may be too obvious. We’re not giving any clues. See if you can identify where this photo was taken, and the particulars of it. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. got the recent Mystery Photo right: “I believe this is the Eye Of The Sun, in Monument Valley which is on the Arizona / Utah Border.” The photo was sent in from a recent trip to the area by Karen Burnette Garner of Dacula. Jim Savadelis of Duluth also got it right.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. also pinpointed it: “Today’s mystery photo is of the red rock formation called “The Sun’s Eye” (or Eye of the Sun) and is located two-miles south of the Utah-Arizona border in the Navajo Nation’s Monument Valley Park. It is said to be one of the most photographed places on earth, and with 360,000+ visitors per year, Monument Valley is so iconic that most anyone who has ever seen a movie will recognize it. It’s the place where sandstone buttes and strange-shaped spires stand like beautiful monuments carved by God. It’s the place that has been the backdrop for famous Westerns, from John Wayne’s first film, Stagecoach in 1939 to Johnny Depp’s 2013 bomb The Lone Ranger.”
Several readers came geographically close, thinking it in other areas, such as Arches National Park, or Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, or near Sedona, Ariz.
CALENDAR
State of the County Annual Report will be February 20 at 11:30 a.m. at the Infinite Energy Center. Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners Chairman Charlotte Nash will review 2018 achievements and present the vision for 2019 and beyond.
Film Presentation of Gina’s Journey: A Film Exploration on the First Official Slave Narrative will be shown on Thursday, February 21 at the Lilburn Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library at 6 p.m.
This film won the Official Roots Award at the 15th Annual Oakland International Film Festival. This is the 1825 account in Litchfield, Conn. of William Grimes publishing the story of his life as a slave and of his subsequent escape to freedom. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
MARTA Referendum Discussion will take place Monday, February 25 at 7 p.m. at the Peachtree Corners City Hall. Come hear this discussion by the United Peachtree Corners Civic Association of the proposed one cent tax for transit.
Fifth Leadership Challenge Workshop will begin February 26 with a four hour session, and continue for five other periods, concluding on April 9. The Workshop brings local leaders together to equip them to serve the community. It is sponsored by the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. It will be facilitated by Betsy Corley Pickren, with guest instructors. For more information, visit www.SouthWestGwinnettChamber.com, or call 678-906-4078.
ANNUAL PLANT SALE, from the University of Georgia Extension Service, runs through March 6. Plant experts are offering a host of fruit shrubs and trees. Purchasers must pick up their prepaid order on March 14 at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. No orders are shipped. For order forms or for more information, visit www.ugaextension.org/gwinnett, or call 678-377-4010.
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