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

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

Click here to read the latest edition. Inside:
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

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by · October 18, 2016 · Full issues
BRACK: Finally, something good comes out of the presidential campaign

BRACK: Finally, something good comes out of the presidential campaign

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | It’s taken a while, but finally we see something good coming out of this worrisome, obnoxious and uncouth presidential campaign of 2016. And it’s something we could never have predicted.

It came as a result of one of Donald Trump’s many volcanic eruptions. This time it wasn’t some crude remark from the present-day, but a recording of his views of women in 2005 as revealed in a conversation with Billy Bush. You know the details.

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by · October 18, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Committee spells out project categories for 2016 SPLOST vote

FOCUS: Committee spells out project categories for 2016 SPLOST vote

By Alan Chapman, Director, Gwinnett County Department of Transportation | The Citizens Project Selection Committee (CPSC) has recommended funding allocations for 10 categories of road improvements to be funded by the proposed 2017 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

Developing these allocations was the initial task of the newly formed CPSC. If the SPLOST is approved by voters on November 8, the CPSC will reconvene to discuss project priorities to recommend to the Board of Commissioners. Projects will be selected from the list of potential projects developed in conjunction with update of the County’s Comprehensive Transportation Plan.

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by · October 18, 2016 · Today's Focus
HOUSTON: Defends Trump by saying women talk dirty, too

HOUSTON: Defends Trump by saying women talk dirty, too

By Debra Houston, contributing columnist | It’s my firm belief that the Left created political correctness to censor the language of those who disagree with them. This is serious. We’re talking First Amendment here.

So Donald Trump spoke in colorful language within the context of what he thought was private conversation 11 years ago. Are we women so delicate and easily offended that we’d disqualify him for president over locker room talk?

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by · October 18, 2016 · Another View
MYSTERY: Here’s a tough photo this time for you to identify

MYSTERY: Here’s a tough photo this time for you to identify

If someone correctly identifies this edition’s Mystery Photo, they should get the Identifier of the Year awards. This is a difficult Mystery Photo, since it has little in the way of distinctive features about it. But take a stab at it; your guess might be right. Send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.

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by · October 18, 2016 · Mystery photos
PAYNE: Blames 1996 Telecom Act for emergence of Donald Trump

PAYNE: Blames 1996 Telecom Act for emergence of Donald Trump

By Tom Payne, Wayside, Ga. | We can draw a direct line from the 1996 Telecommunications Act (the GOP’s gift to their big business benefactors), to Rupert Murdoch, to the creation of Donald Trump. This year, Fox News is 20 years old. In 1996, Roger Ailes, the molester of women in his employ, was hired to create Fox News.

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by · October 14, 2016 · Another View
MYSTERY: Falling water from a big wheel always seems to attract photographers

MYSTERY: Falling water from a big wheel always seems to attract photographers

Water wheels seem to attract photographers. And there’s more than one reason that this particular one is photographed so much. Tell us where you think this one is located and send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.

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by · October 14, 2016 · Mystery photos
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10/11: Leadership Gwinnett; Biggest taxpayers; Pence and points

Click here to read latest issue. Inside:
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

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by · October 11, 2016 · Full issues
BRACK: Biggest taxpayers on Gwinnett, Jackson EMC’s big day and Jane Pauley

BRACK: Biggest taxpayers on Gwinnett, Jackson EMC’s big day and Jane Pauley

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Since October 15 is the deadline for you to pay your homeowner property tax, we’ll take time to look at the largest taxpayers in Gwinnett County, that is, from 2015.

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by · October 11, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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FOCUS: Leadership Gwinnett reviews program; Announces new officers

By T. Michael Tennant, chairman, Leadership Gwinnett Foundation | As we kick off the 31st Leadership Gwinnett class year, I thought it timely to give a community update on the program, as well as news of board and officer changes at the Leadership Gwinnett Foundation.

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by · October 11, 2016 · Today's Focus
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