By Andy Brack | U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said something a couple of weeks back that’s been circling through my brain: “Look, I have this firm belief that if America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough.”
My heart is breaking as our nation is being torn apart in ways never imagined by founding fathers and leaders of the country for 200 years.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Finally Recognizing That Not All Learn around a Family Supper
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Do You Have a Continual Tickling Cough? Here’s One Solution
ANOTHER VIEW: Doesn’t See Right-Wing Thinkers Changing Minds Any Time Soon
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: Here’s One Who Is Applying for Membership in the Royal Family
UPCOMING: Every Gwinnett Fire Station Now Has at Least One Ambulance
NOTABLE: ARC Recertifies Peachtree Corners for its Green Communities Program
RECOMMENDED: BLOWOUT by Rachel Maddow
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Communities of Lichen Occupy Depressions Over Georgia Granite
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lots of Brick Went into Producing This Scenic Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Start, finish, sell your book workshop is Feb. 1
By Elliott Brack | For over a year, I have had this continual cough. It’s not a cough from a cold, but an occasional tickling of the throat that brings on a cough. Sometimes it erupts into a “coughing fit,” with the best remedy a cough drop. That lubrication somehow stops the cough. It could happen two or three times a day, and even awaken me at sleep.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Eliza Pinckney Famous in Her Own Right in South Carolina
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Impeachment Trial May Be Democrats’ Last Hope To Oust Trump
ANOTHER VIEW: Appears the Economy Is Chugging Along; Enjoy It Now
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Here Are a Few Solutions To Inform The Fearful Electorate
UPCOMING: New Community Foundation Non-Profit Academy Begins Soon
RECOMMENDED: In Search of Mary Shelley, the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Plant Life Abounds on Many of Georgia’s Granite Outcrops
MYSTERY PHOTO: Aerial Photo of Countryside Is Today’s Mystery Picture
CALENDAR: Elections Board Building To Be Named for Beauty Baldwin
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Moving from a City Councilman To Working on Disaster Responses
EEB PERSPECTIVE: How Do Those Writers of Fiction Come Up With Their Story Ideas?
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’re Steps To Take When Your Computer Is Phished
SPOTLIGHT: Imagine Advertising and Global Signs
FEEDBACK: Chattahoochee Watershed Endangered by Forest Service New Plan
UPCOMING: Two Top Officials in Lilburn To Resign, Then Seek Other Posts
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation Donates $73,000 To Gwinnett Non-Profits
RECOMMENDED: Movie: Just Mercy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Marine Corps Logistics Base near Albany, Opened in 1954
MYSTERY PHOTO: Figure Out The Location of this Southern Mansion, a Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Learn Stories Surrounding Georgia Lake in Upcoming Talk
By Elliott Brack | Those really good fiction writers? I admire them. Although I generally read non-fiction, particularly histories, if I pick up a good book of fiction, then I am engrossed and content. Sometimes you want the book to go on and on, since the author is so good. I am in awe of those who can produce good fiction.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett Libraries Adopt New Method To Classify Books
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Legislature: Meet Only Every Other Year and Have Less Mischief
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Before Session Begins, Here Comes a Legislative Gender Policeman
UPCOMING: 12th Kiwanis Father-Daughter Dance To Be Both February 7 and 8
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Commission Adopts Record $1.84 Billion Budget for 2020
RECOMMENDED: The United States of Trump by Bill O’Reilly
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Is Federalist Candidate for U.S. President
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell Us More About This Important Stone Structure and Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Gwinnett NAACP Plans Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday Supper on January 19
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Why She Belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnett Community Shocked at Tragic Death of Emily Powell
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: Will Someone at Democratic Convention Get for an Ovation Nomination?
UPCOMING: Two Spearhead Efforts To Improve Census Results in Norcross
NOTABLE: Hudgens Board Picks Awtrey as Youngest Chair
RECOMMENDED: BurgerIM, Peachtree Corners
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Trained in the Law in London
MYSTERY PHOTO: Take a Gander at the Clues and Identify This Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: MLK Great Day of Service Will Be at Two Locations
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Immigration Reform, First Amendment Incident Are Saddening
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Christmas Gift of Jigsaw Puzzle Teaches about Georgia
SPOTLIGHT: Agrisel USA Inc.
FEEDBACK: Maintains that Leaders “Should Hurt to Serve” Fellow Mankind
UPCOMING: Nature Photography Exhibit Coming to Hudgens Center in February
NOTABLE: Now’s the Time To Start Working in Your Garden; Plant Sale Coming
RECOMMENDED: The Last Republicans by Mark A. Updegrove
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Charles Pinckney Served as Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain
MYSTERY PHOTO: Simple Downtown Scene Is Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Gwinnett House Delegation to Georgia Assembly Will Meet January 8
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Our Nation Is Damaged by Ineptness of Current Impeachment Process
EEB’S PERSPECTIVE: Action Needed in Several Areas To See Improvements in Gwinnett
ANOTHER VIEW: Lionheart Theatre Marks 20th Year With a Roaring 20s Party
SPOTLIGHT: Law Office of J. Michael Levengood, LLC
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: No Fee Adoption On Fridays in January At Gwinnett Animal Welfare
NOTABLE: New County Transit Plan Aims To Make Travel Safer and Smoother
RECOMMENDED: Educated by Tara Westover
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Pinckneyville Namesake Outspoken in Belief Articles Were Defective
MYSTERY PHOTO: Idyllic Mountain and Lake Scene Is Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Peachtree Corners Library Will Soon Mark 31st Birthday
“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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