By Vipul Patel | Here are my ideas concerning the redevelopment of the Stone Mountain Tennis Center site. At the Park Place Boulevard exit, I own and manage three hotels: Country Inn and Suites, Holiday Inn Express and Days Inn. I not only work there but I live in Lilburn, less than two miles from the development. I work, live, shop, play and pray in this area.
By Lance Wallace | The University System of Georgia (USG) is launching a new tool to help students and families work through critical decisions about college affordability and value. The new website, Georgia Degrees Pay, provides an array of public data on Georgia’s 26 public colleges and universities.
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist | I’m an anomaly. I’m a social progressive who comes from a law enforcement family. My favorite uncle was a Lieutenant with the New York Police Department who ran a precinct in Brooklyn. My closest cousin is a retired prison guard. Another close first cousin retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And I believe that the law enforcement occupation deserves our respect.
By Heather Loveridge | It all started with a PTA meeting. In the early 1980’s three concerned PTA mothers – Barb Lewis, Joanne Culvern, and Sharry Hague – saw firsthand the homelessness crisis for children in Gwinnett. Rather than waiting for someone else to tackle this issue, these moms single handedly raised $2.5 million to support children facing homelessness in their area.
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.”
By Karen Bass | “Pilgrimage” takes on a variety of meanings for folks, but in general it involves a journey far from home and seeking spiritual insight. The youth of Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross have taken several such journeys, primarily to sites of ancient Celtic Christianity in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
–British Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970).
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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