Articles by: GwinnettForum
10/7: More on presidential race, SPLOST, fraud
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Why This Writer Supports Donald Trump for President
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnettians Need To Approve Continuation of SPLOST Funds
ANOTHER VIEW: Corporate Crime Fraud by Healthcare Companies and Banks
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District
FEEDBACK: Wants Voters Basing Their Ballots on Judgment, Real Qualifications
UPCOMING: Changes Coming To Peachtree Industrial Blvd. and Five Forks Road
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech, Mercedes-Benz To Announce New Partnership
RECOMMENDED: A President in our Midst by Kaye Lanning Minchew
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah Siege Long Term Includes Restoration of Colonial Status
TODAY’S QUOTE: Lots of People Will Agree About the Return of Autumn
MYSTERY PHOTO: You May Find This Mystery Hard To Identify
LAGNIAPPE: Norfolk-Southern Hazmat Safety Train Plans Stop in Atlanta
CALENDAR: October 15 Is Deadline To Pay Property Taxes in Gwinnett
WILSON: Corporate crime fraud by healthcare companies and banks
By George Wilson, contributing columnist | From time to time you hear Republican office holders and seekers speak in generalities about excessive government regulations. However they are seldom, if ever, specific about what regulation they would do without. Wonder why? It seems to me we need more oversight of corporations not less. Recently, I have been keeping track on some of these corporate transgressions and will do so in the future.
10/4: On the presidential race, baseball and more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Does Our Nation Want a Leader Who is a Bully and a Con Artist?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Maybe Baseball Suggests Better Way of Picking Political Candidates
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
UPCOMING: Heritage Center Plans First Leif Erikson Day on October 10
NOTABLE: Gainesville Hospital System To Purchase Barrow Medical Center
RECOMMENDED: Stone Mountain Highland Games
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Siege of Savannah Was Second Deadliest Revolutionary War Battle
TODAY’S QUOTE: Weakness Is Often Hidden in Bluster and Boasting and Rashness
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another Beautiful Vista for You To Guess Where It is
CALENDAR: Several Authors To Visit Gwinnett Soon
FOCUS: Does our nation want a leader who is a bully and a con artist?
By Alvin Leaphart, Jesup, Ga. | My grandmother, Florence Gibbs, a former United States Congressman, taught me “Noblesse oblige,” a French phrase meaning “nobility obliges.” It is the concept that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person who holds such status to fulfill social responsibilities, particularly in leadership roles. She fervently believed that this applied to everyone in government, from the bottom to the top.
9/30: On Yellowstone, Lillian Webb, Hillary Clinton, Fort Daniel Faire
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Reliving the Past and Enjoying the Beauty of Yellowstone Park
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering Miss Lillian Webb
ANOTHER VIEW: Continues Conservation Concerning Whether Mrs. Clinton Is Progressive
ANOTHER VIEW: Fort Daniel Faire for 2016 Concerns the “Dynamic Borders”
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce
UPCOMING: Suwanee Gets Another Park, with 25 Acres Near Center of City
NOTABLE: Central Gwinnett Students Excited about Health Career Academy
RECOMMENDED: Miracle on the Hudson, by William Prochnau and Laura Parker
GEORGIA TIDBIT: McIntosh’s Support for Land Treaty Cost Him His Life
TODAY’S QUOTE: Reflections About Exercising at the Gym
MYSTERY PHOTO: Clues Abound for Your Taking in This Week’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s a View of the Central Activities of the Gwinnett County Fair
CALENDAR: Fort Daniel Frontier Faire Set This Weekend at Hog Mountain
FOCUS: Reliving the past and enjoying the beauty of Yellowstone park
By Susan Shenefield, Yellowstone National Park | How does one spend six months living in a caldera, a large volcanic crater of the mouth of the volcano? We’ve been working and relaxing in Yellowstone National Park for a season!
The back story is I met my husband, Jordan, 45 years ago working summer jobs in Yellowstone as college kids. We’ve been married 43 years and our goal has been retiring and returning to give back to this Park we love so much.
So year 2016 the stars aligned for us to do that…and more, since this is also the Centennial Celebration of the National Park Service. We are ambassadors for Yellowstone.
Gwinnett Forum | July 30, 2024
“You may not know who I am or what I mean
But I will be good faith to you nevertheless.
And filter and fiber your soul.
“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged.
Missing me one place, search another.
I stop, somewhere, waiting for you.”
– Walt Whitman
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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