By Joe Briggs | While I grieve with Raleigh Perry on the demise of U.S. newspapers, I disagree with his analysis. He states that people who once stayed informed through daily newspapers have shifted to the convenience of the internet. But he then laments the absence of any substance in the nightly broadcasts. So have the consumers lost interest in the news, or have the news providers lost interest in the consumers?
By Jack Bernard | When I was in high school, my father moved my family to a small North Georgia town. I had little to do, so I hung out at the local pool halls with the good old boys. Sometimes, an out-of-town foolish braggart would come in, bet big on a game of pool and be taken to the cleaners by a local pool shark. The guys would just laugh at him and say he had been “snookered.”
Here’s a photo of distinctive building for our readers to ponder as the Mystery Photo. It gives the impression of possibly being in Scandinavia or some other rain-soaked area. Figure out where this building is and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
First in with the answer to the last Mystery Photo was Lou Camerio, Lilburn, for the second straight issue. He recognized Mount Adams in Washington state.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Our democracy may be in trouble with today’s poorer newspapers
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New national suicide prevention phone line is 988
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: Supreme Court has set the stage for turning USA backwards
UPCOMING: Masks now required while inside county facilities
NOTABLE: Gainesville hospital graduates eight in Pathway program
RECOMMENDED: We need your input with new recommendations!
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Scientists hoping to restore American Chestnut tree to maturity
MYSTERY PHOTO: You must look “up” to this week’s Mystery Photo
By Raleigh Perry | Coming from a family in Chattanooga with a lot of newspaper people in it and having a newspaper on my breakfast and dinner tables, I have an appreciation of the printed media. There were two dailies. The Times in the morning and the Free Press in the afternoon. One leaned left, the other right.
Instead of a lighthouse at low levels, let’s look up this week at this gorgeous snow-capped mountain. No doubt many GwinnettForum readers have seen it. Now, exactly where is it? Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Lou Camerio of Lilburn was the first to recognize a lighthouse in Burlington, Vt., on Lake Champlain.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Utah program gets unemployed folks back to work quickly
EEB PERSPECTIVE: President says 85% of UGA students are residents of Georgia
ANOTHER VIEW: Dozen people enjoy church “Pilgrimage” to Ireland
SPOTLIGHT: Comet National Shipping
FEEDBACK: His concern is possible tyrannical right theocracy
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners invests $2 million in new playground equipment
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville plans slip lane for direct hospital access
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Chestnut trees, once prevalent, were victim of blight fungus
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another lighthouse, but it’s a short one!
By Buzz Brockway | Last month I joined two of my colleagues on a trip to Washington, D.C. Our purpose was to meet with Congressman Rick Allen (Ga.-12) and Congressman Burgess Owens (Utah-4) to discuss integrating workforce development programs with safety net delivery. The reception we received was most supportive of this idea. We hope to eventually see federal legislation to allow states to do this.
“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”
— American Humorist James Thurber (1894 – 1961)
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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