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4/8: Next Aurora production; Kooks and weirdos; Clinton
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Next Aurora Production Centers on 1939 Cuban-Holocaust Story
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Georgia Gets Black Eye from Legislative Kooks and Weirdos
ANOTHER VIEW: “Keep Bill Under Control This Time, President Rodham!”
SPOTLIGHT: Heaven & Associates, P.C.
UPCOMING: GGC’s Sixth Button Gwinnett Day To Honor Dr. James d’Angelo
NOTABLE: Dept. of Labor Career Expo To Host 60 Employers Needing Workers
RECOMMENDED ADVENTURE: Georgia Center for the Book
GEORGIA TIDBIT: In Professional Baseball, Georgia State League First Founded in 1906
TODAY’S QUOTE: The Most Important Day in Your Life……and…..
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another Architectural Gem for Your Guessing
LAGNIAPPE: Local DAR Chapter Visits Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery
HOUSTON: “Keep Bill under control this time, President Rodham!”
By Debra Houston | Around and around we go! Who will be president? Nobody knows!
It is near midnight, November 8. Except for Hawaii, polls have closed and states are trending blue. CNN projects a winner. A triumphant Hillary Clinton stands at the podium, shoulders squared. “You’ve had a President Clinton,” she declares. “Now you’ll have a President Hillary Rodham!”
4/5: National Night Out planning; Baseball; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: April 10 Meeting in Lilburn To Plan for National Night Out in August
EEB PERSPECTIVE: From Baseball, to the Post Office, Lotteries and Back to Baseball
SPOTLIGHT: Edward Jones
UPCOMING: County Needs Paid Poll Workers for Primary and General Election
NOTABLE: Brenau University To Start Lacrosse Program in February of 2018
RECOMMENDED: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Alfredo Barili Was First Professional Musician To Move to Atlanta
TODAY’S QUOTE: Constitution Made Only for Moral and Religious People
MYSTERY PHOTO: Yes, Another St. Helens
BRACK: From baseball to the post office, lotteries and back to baseball
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is now underway, do you know what the original way to end a game was? At baseball’s beginnings, the original “Knickerbocker” rules said the game would end when there were 21 “aces” or runs. If mismatched, a game could end quickly. If no one much scored, it could last forever. Soon they settled on nine innings, that is, if one team was ahead at the end of nine. The standard game has been nine innings since March 7, 1857.
Gwinnett Forum | April 18, 2025
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
– English critic and essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834).
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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