Today’s Focus

FOCUS: Gwinnett firm improving safety of college sports

FOCUS: Gwinnett firm improving safety of college sports

A Peachtree Corners company is designing and manufacturing sporting equipment worn by youth and high school football teams, college teams, and most recently, mandated by the National Football League. Guardian Innovations was formed in 2011 by Erin and Lee Hanson, along with other family members and dedicated employees.

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by · February 21, 2023 · Today's Focus
Williams

FOCUS: Commerce, tolerance led to Atlanta’s amazing growth

By Lloyd Williams  |  Do you cherish economic growth? Want to see your real-estate values increase? Do you wish for a better world for your children and grandchildren? 

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by · February 17, 2023 · Today's Focus
From left are Jennifer Broun, Walton EMC;, Jocelyn Hickson, recipient; and David Baker, assistant principal at Annistown Elementary School.

FOCUS: Walton EMC awards $241,500 in grants to schools

By Savannah Chandler |  Walton EMC is lighting up learning in K-12 classrooms within its 10-county service area. Cooperative representatives delivered checks totaling more than $241,500 to public and private school educators whose innovative ideas for creative learning projects were selected to receive a grant.

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by · February 14, 2023 · Today's Focus
Photo by Alexander Gardner; photo illustration by Scott Suchy, Charleston City Paper.

FOCUS: Words of Lincoln have meaning for our country today

By Ashley Herndon |  What a wonderful world. What a wonderful force…but wrongful motivation destroys. The primary motivations in settling North America were religious freedom, commercial opportunity, political freedom, and individual property rights for individual persons or a group, such as in Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

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by · February 10, 2023 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Here’s the reason this guy is no longer a Republican

FOCUS: Here’s the reason this guy is no longer a Republican

By Jack Bernard  |  I was once a Republican Georgia county commissioner. Then I served as the chair of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia’s Tax Committee. I’m no longer a Republican. Here’s one reason why. 

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by · February 7, 2023 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: In era of NRA influence, mass killings continue in USA

By Raleigh Perry  |  The Gun Violence Archive counted 648 mass shootings in 2022 in our country. In 2023, mass killings began with at least 36 dead in January. This is ridiculous and could be cut way down with national controls on guns.  

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by · February 3, 2023 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Gwinnettian visits 7th continent, but wow!  It is an adventure

By Jo Ann Nelson  |  It hit me when in Australia that I only had two more continents to go:  South America and Antarctica.  This was in 2019. So, I signed up to fly to Argentina, and boarded a Viking ship to Antarctica.

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by · January 31, 2023 · Today's Focus
Monticello. Via Wikimedia.

FOCUS: A glance at religious freedom and the fate of Monticello

By John Titus  |  One of the three achievements for which Thomas Jefferson wanted to be remembered was as the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Although he initially wrote it in 1777, it ultimately did not pass the Virginia legislature until 1786.

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by · January 27, 2023 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Three times blessed, and recalling 1876 presidential election

FOCUS: Three times blessed, and recalling 1876 presidential election

By Ashley Herndon  |  I just have to share some good fortune, having been blessed twice in 1964 and again in 1967-68. I was surprised to be introduced to and met a gentleman of grace and  power.

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by · January 24, 2023 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: More logic, better decisions, need from our governments

FOCUS: More logic, better decisions, need from our governments

By Jack Bernard  |  When I was a Georgia county commissioner, I was chair of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia’s tax committee. As chairman of a BOC, using cost/benefit analysis, I also got my board to lower annual local tax increases from 10 percent annually to 1 percent. When I got off the BOC, taxes went right back up. 

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by · January 20, 2023 · Today's Focus