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11/11: Improving Gwinnett life; Dems did better; On Hillary

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Three Proposals for Improving the Life in Gwinnett County
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Democrats in Gwinnett Ran Much Stronger Than in Years Before
ANOTHER VIEW: Some Thoughts in Defending Hillary Clinton after the Election
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
FEEDBACK: Two Distinct Reflections Concerning the 2016 Election
UPCOMING: Norcross Merchant Open House To Be This Saturday, November 12
NOTABLE: Suwanee Launches Open Data Budget Website for Transparency
RECOMMENDED: Anna Ruby Falls and the Richard Russell Scenic Highway
GEORGIA TIDBIT: FDR Opposes George’s Re-Election; George Backs FDR on WWII
TODAY’S QUOTE: Deep Thinking from the Mind of Yogi Berra
MYSTERY PHOTO: No Drought Going on Where This Mystery Photograph Was Made
CALENDAR: Author Mary Alice Monroe will appear November 19 in Peachtree Corners

by GwinnettForum · November 11, 2016 · Full issues

11/8: New PCOM location; Roundup with Cubs, more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: PCOM Planning To Establish Second Medical Campus in Georgia
EEB PERSPECTIVE: How About Those Cubs? Berkmar High Marks 50th Anniversary
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: State Legislators Should Fund Crisis Intervention Programs
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Courts Move To Text-Based Juror Notification System
NOTABLE: Library Gets Grant To Develop Community Gardening Initiative
RECOMMENDED: The Crown on Netflix
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Walter F. George One of Georgia’s Longest Serving Senators
TODAY’S QUOTE: Many People Think This Is a Way To Solve a Problem
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell Us Who Was the Inspiration for This Modern Structure
LAGNIAPPE: No! This Is Not a Mystery Photo But a Live Event
CALENDAR: Free Seminar on Social Security Benefits Planned for November 17

by GwinnettForum · November 8, 2016 · Full issues

11/4: Police as guardians; Recap of endorsements; Next in politics

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Police As Guardians When Confronting Situations in Crisis
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here are GwinnettForum’s Choices in Tuesday’s General Election
ANOTHER VIEW: Looking Back on Presidential Campaign, and What Might Happen
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia-Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
FEEDBACK: Suggests Three Reasons To Vote Against Ballot’s Amendment Two
UPCOMING: Aurora Theatre Offering The 12 Dates of Christmas on Stage Soon
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners New City Manager To Begin Work November 21
RECOMMENDED: The Magnolia Story by Joanna and Chip Gaines, with Mark Dagostino
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Trio Exercises Dominance over State Politics for Many Years
TODAY’S QUOTE: Is All This Political Conviction Coming From People Second-Handed?
MYSTERY PHOTO: Learning More about the Wild West Days
LAGNIAPPE: Pam Hoffman Gets Award from District Parks-Recreation Group
CALENDAR: Red, Blue and You Event, Friday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m. at Coolray Field

by GwinnettForum · November 4, 2016 · Full issues

11/1: Rodriguez back in A Christmas Carol; No to big telecom merger

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Anthony Rodriguez Returns In A Christmas Carol Beginning Nov. 25
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Proposed AT&T Merger with Time Warner Should Be Blocked
ANOTHER VIEW: Governments Give Away Much in Subsidies To Firms
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
UPCOMING: Duluth Snares 100 Employees of Engineering and Innovation Firm
NOTABLE: New Railway Museum Building To Increase Space Almost 50 Percent
RECOMMENDED EXCURSION: Wolf Mountain Vineyard
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Known as the “Bourbon Triumvirate:” Brown, Colquitt and Gordon
TODAY’S QUOTE: Writing a Book Means Some Demon Is Driving You
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where Is the Location of These Two Gunfighters Statues?
LAGNIAPPE: Watching a Soda Straw Rocket Soar at GSMST
CALENDAR: Barbershop Chorale Coming to Peachtree Corners Baptist Church

by GwinnettForum · November 1, 2016 · Full issues

10/28: No, Yes, No, No on constitutional amendments, more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Voting “Yes” on Amendment Means Helping and Hope for Child Victims
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Vote Against Three of Four State Constitutional Amendments
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
UPCOMING: Telling the World of Holocaust Is Subject of Gwinnett Presentation
NOTABLE: Primerica Foundation Announces 2016 Grants Totaling $960,000
RECOMMENDED: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta Is Home To the Arthritis Foundation, Founded in 1948
TODAY’S QUOTE: Determining If It’s A Good Time to Take a Hike
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Classic Building Could Be Anywhere in the World
LAGNIAPPE: Lack of Rain Shows Drought Being Felt at Gwinnett Lakes
CALENDAR: Luxomni Community Fall Festival Is This Sunday, October 30

by GwinnettForum · October 28, 2016 · Full issues

10/25: On Gwinnett’s libraries and a new Dahlonega distillery

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Libraries Cement Knowledge and Community in One Place
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New Dahlonega Distillery Aims at Producing Spirits by January, 2017
SPOTLIGHT: Howard Brothers
FEEDBACK: Several Readers Respond To GwinnettForum Candidate Endorsements
UPCOMING: Advanced Voting Adds Two Sites This Week, Five Sites Next Week
NOTABLE: Metro Chamber Recognizes Gwinnett Water Plant Byproduct
RECOMMENDED: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgian Moves to Stage, Screen But Best Known for Voiceovers
TODAY’S QUOTE: Your Memory Can Be Useful in Determining If World Is Weird
MYSTERY PHOTO: These Bowl-Like Objects May Give A Clue about Photograph
LAGNIAPPE: Visitor Enjoys Zoo Atlanta Amphibian and Reptile House
CALENDAR: Open House Saturday at Lilburn’s New City Hall and Library

by GwinnettForum · October 25, 2016 · Full issues

10/21: Women are winning; Presidential endorsement; more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: WIN Cites Progress Made in Electing Women to Political Office
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Our Endorsement for the Presidency of the United States
SPOTLIGHT: Hayes Family Dealerships
UPCOMING: Several Gwinnett Cities Plan Scary Halloween Activities
NOTABLE: County Approves Two Non-Profit Grants for Chronic Care
RECOMMENDED: Brown is the New White by Steven Phillips
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Once Techwood Homes, Atlanta Site Now Is for Student Housing
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Scientists Usually Think About Philosophers
MYSTERY PHOTO: See if this Mystery Photo Means Anything To You
LAGNIAPPE: More Progress at GGC To Accommodate Growing Student Body
CALENDAR: Tannery Row Artist Colony Fall Juried Art Exhibit Is Saturday

by GwinnettForum · October 21, 2016 · Full issues

10/18: On SPLOST projects and something good out of presidential campaign

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Committee Spells Out Project Categories for 2016 SPLOST Vote
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Finally, Something Good Comes Out of the Presidential Campaign
ANOTHER VIEW: Defends Trump By Saying Women Talk Dirty, Too
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Electric Membership Corporation
FEEDBACK: Understands Trump Appeal; But Clinton Is Far Better Qualified
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Commission OKs Agreement To Buy Former Olympic Site
NOTABLE: Fitch Ratings Affirms Gwinnett County’s AAA Credit Rating
NOT RECOMMENDED: Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Building Techwood Homes Was Model, and Led to Housing Act of 1936
TODAY’S QUOTE: Something That Most of Us Use Too Little These Days
MYSTERY PHOTO: You’ll Have To Be Really Good To Spot This Mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Electronic Recycling To Benefit Friends of Disabled Adults and Children
CALENDAR: Cooking School Coming Soon at Infinite Energy Center

by GwinnettForum · October 18, 2016 · Full issues

10/14: GwinnettForum’s endorsement issue, more

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EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here Are GwinnettForum Endorsements in 2016 Georgia Election
ANOTHER VIEW: Blames 1996 Telecom Act for Emergence of Donald Trump
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.,
FEEDBACK: Stay the Course, Mr. Trump, Stay the Course
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Seeks To Top 97,000 Volunteers for Great Day of Service
NOTABLE: Tree Preservation in Norcross Earns City Statewide Recognition
RECOMMENDED: In Death’s Shadow by Steve Davidson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta’s Techwood Homes First Public Housing Project in USA
TODAY’S QUOTE: A Cartoonist Sees Differences in the Way We Think
MYSTERY PHOTO: Falling Water from a Big Wheel Always Seems to Attract Photographers
CALENDAR: Sugar Rush Coming This Saturday at the Sugar Hill Bowl

by GwinnettForum · October 14, 2016 · elections, Full issues

Members of the Grayson leadership team and its leaders.

10/11: Leadership Gwinnett; Biggest taxpayers; Pence and points

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Leadership Gwinnett Reviews Program; Announces New Officers
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Updated 2015 List of Top Ten Taxpayers in Gwinnett County
ANOTHER VIEW: Perhaps Governor Pence Was Trying to Pick Up Cheap Political Points
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Braves
FEEDBACK: Four Letters, Three on Politics, and One on Ancestry
UPCOMING: Here’s the Schedule As Lilburn Moves to New City Hall Soon
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville Names Honorees for 2017 Heritage Medallions
RECOMMENDED: Long Way Gone by Charles Martin
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Coachman Dominates High Jumping, Becomes Champion Olympian
TODAY’S QUOTE: Comparing a Reviewer using a Hot Fudge Sundae
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately Buildings Usually Have Their Own Past
LAGNIAPPE: Gwinnett Village CID Director Honored by American Society of Civil Engineers
CALENDAR: Drug Take Back Event in Snellville on October 22

by GwinnettForum · October 11, 2016 · Full issues

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?

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The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.

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11/8: New PCOM location; Roundup with Cubs, more

11/4: Police as guardians; Recap of endorsements; Next in politics

11/1: Rodriguez back in A Christmas Carol; No to big telecom merger

10/28: No, Yes, No, No on constitutional amendments, more

10/25: On Gwinnett’s libraries and a new Dahlonega distillery

10/21: Women are winning; Presidential endorsement; more

10/18: On SPLOST projects and something good out of presidential campaign

10/14: GwinnettForum’s endorsement issue, more

10/11: Leadership Gwinnett; Biggest taxpayers; Pence and points

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