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MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this 6-story classic building?

MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this 6-story classic building?

Check out this classic in building design. Note in particular the details found in its construction, something modern buildings seldom have. Now figure out where this building is located, and what its use is. Send your ideas to elliottt@brack.net, and include your hometown.

First to recognize the last Mystery Photo was Lou Camerio of Lilburn wrote:

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by · March 10, 2023 · Mystery photos
NEW for 3/7: On hospital rankings, winning, “Do-nothing Congress”

NEW for 3/7: On hospital rankings, winning, “Do-nothing Congress”

Click here to read the latest issue. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Check out hospital rankings for Metro Atlanta
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Kirby Smart’s silence belies his accomplishments
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College 
ANOTHER VIEW: With clowns in the House, look for a “Do-nothing Congress”
FEEDBACK: “Hail, Hail!” Good to see traditionalists are still around 
UPCOMING: Burger week upcoming March 19-25 at 25 locations
NOTABLE: Northeast Georgia Medical Gains Oncology Accreditation
OBITUARY: James “Jim” Victor Hood Jr.
RECOMMENDED: The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Littleken  
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Baseball pitcher Sherry Smith held his own in majors
MYSTERY PHOTO: Let the skyline help you solve this Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Youth homicides and overdose meeting will be March 9 near Norcross

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by · March 7, 2023 · Full issues
Kirby Smart after UGA won its second national championship this year.  Credit: Tony Walsh/UGAAA.

BRACK: Kirby Smart’s silence belies his accomplishments

By Elliott Brack   |  Winning isn’t everything. Try to tell that to a follower of top sports teams, however.  You’ll get scorn and laughed at from mad-dog fans of the Universities of Georgia and Alabama, and other sports teams, high school, college and pro.

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Northside Gwinnett hospital in Duluth.

FOCUS: Check out hospital rankings for Metro Atlanta

By Jack Bernard |  Much of my career was spent working with large hospital systems, some of the best in the nation. Professionally, I found it difficult but not impossible to rank hospitals. One simple but reasonably reliable source for potential patients to use is the US News and World Report, which annually lists the best hospitals both nationally and within each state. 

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by · March 7, 2023 · Today's Focus
ANOTHER VIEW: With clowns in the House, look for a “Do-nothing Congress”

ANOTHER VIEW: With clowns in the House, look for a “Do-nothing Congress”

By Raleigh Perry  |  There is an article in a current news source that questions Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene and why she is saying what she is saying.  It goes into why she would laugh and that others should laugh at what she says.  She has spent almost 3 1/4 years in Congress and has accomplished nothing at all. She will live out the rest of this term and accomplish nothing. 

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by · March 7, 2023 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: Burger week coming March 19-25 at 25 locations

NEWS BRIEFS: Burger week coming March 19-25 at 25 locations

The eighth annual Gwinnett Burger Week will take place March 19-25, with the weeklong celebration featuring limited-time burger creations for $10 at 25 restaurants across the county. The event is sponsored by Explore Gwinnett.

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by · March 7, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Let the skyline help you solve this mystery

MYSTERY PHOTO: Let the skyline help you solve this mystery

Look carefully. Does this skyline help you identify this edition’s Mystery Photo?  When you figure out  an answer, send it to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.

George Graf of Palmyra, Va. nailed the identity of this mystery.  “It is the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Fla.

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by · March 7, 2023 · Mystery photos
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James “Jim” Victor Hood Jr.

James “Jim” Victor Hood, Jr., 84, of Monroe, Ga. passed away on Friday, March 3, 2023. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Victor Hood, Sr. and Annie Mae Hinton Hood; as well as brother, Allen Hood. 

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by · March 7, 2023 · Obituaries
NEW for 3/3: On ‘plantation capitalism;’ police hiring; S&P 500

NEW for 3/3: On ‘plantation capitalism;’ police hiring; S&P 500

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS:  Here it comes again: misguided “Plantation Capitalism”
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Action from 2006 might be harming police hiring
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
ANOTHER VIEW: What variation in the S&P 500 tells us about the future
FEEDBACK: Disagrees with statements about Gwinnett schools
UPCOMING: County Chairman gives 2023 State of the County address
NOTABLE: GGC’s Super Saturday STEM program aims at sixth graders
RECOMMENDED: Acai Bowl in Peachtree Corners
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Bibb Manufacturing was key element in textiles in Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Perhaps you can make headway on today’s photograph? 
LAGNIAPPE: Oooops. The last identification was wrong
CALENDAR: Lionheart Theatre of Norcross has new presentation

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by · March 3, 2023 · Full issues
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FOCUS: Here it comes again: misguided “Plantation Capitalism”

By Ashley Herndon |  If any of our citizenry does not think “Plantation Capitalism” is being unleashed upon us, again, we need to review the U.S. History, not the conflated opinions of Tea Partiers, QAnons, Trumpsters, et al.  We can begin with an easily available reference in pre-Civil War history. 

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by · March 3, 2023 · Today's Focus