By Byron Gilbert | Our country has lost a senator from a mold that broke long ago. I am remembering U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, a conservative Republican, who was very close friends with U.S. Ted Kennedy. Imagine that today! The senator came from a time when polar opposites could laugh together and make law together.
You won’t find this statue in a metropolitan area. You’ll have to search elsewhere. Try your luck and when you know where this photograph was taken, send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
The last Mystery Photo came from Sandy and Rick Krause of Lilburn. George Graf of Palmyra, Va. tells us it is “The Partnership Sculpture, Artesia, N.M.
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EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here are GwinnettForum political endorsements for the May 24 primary
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
MYSTERY PHOTO: What are these guys talking about, and where?
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Considering the national mentality of the Russian state
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Southern group lists Norcross church as among “Hate Groups”
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Gives views on new “Constitutional Carry” law in Georgia
UPCOMING: Gateway85 seeks zero emissions in landscape equipment
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Place redevelopment concepts now open for study
OBITUARIES: Mike Corkum
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Hanging of Georgia woman in 1873 had vast impact on state
MYSTERY PHOTO: Indoor scene has big clues staring you in the face
LAGNIAPPE: You can get instant acceptance at Georgia Gwinnett College
CALENDAR: Art comes to the Chattahoochee River at Jones Bridge Park on April 30
By Jim Cofer | Many Americans are appalled to see Vladimir Putin’s home popularity reaching numbers as high as 80 percent while Ukrainians are being slaughtered daily. For 70 years after deposing the Czar, the Russian Communists provided the people with minimal but adequate food, housing, and jobs, but not representative government or a free press.
In celebration of Earth Day, Gateway85 Community Improvement District announces that is working with Brightview (NYSE: BV), the nation’s leading commercial landscape company, to move to zero-emission, low-noise electric landscaping equipment beginning with mowers. It is Gateway85’s goal to move to 100 percent zero-emission electric landscape equipment to reduce gas emissions and noise pollution.
“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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