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BRACK: Limit the Legislature to meet once in two years 

BRACK: Limit the Legislature to meet once in two years 

By Elliott Brack | State legislators gathered Monday at the Capitol to start the 2024 session of the Georgia General Assembly. Meanwhile, all Georgians must keep their fingers crossed hoping the current session doesn’t legislate too much mischief.

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by · January 9, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Gwinnett could get its 17th city in 2024: Mulberry

FOCUS: Gwinnett could get its 17th city in 2024: Mulberry

JAN. 9, 2024  |  Gwinnett could get its 17th city in 2024 if a proposed bill to come before the Georgia General Assembly is successful.  Under the proposal, the city would be named Mulberry, consisting of  land on both sides Interstate 85 in northeast Gwinnett, including the Hamilton Mill area.

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by · January 9, 2024 · Today's Focus
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ANOTHER VIEW: We must resist, reclaim and rebuild. And do it today

By Ashley Herndon  |  Possibly the most watched horrifying event in political history since the JFK assassination was the January 6 insurrection. It was evil incarnate, evil in action, and planned evil.

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by · January 9, 2024 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: County now has 13 glass recycling locations

NEWS BRIEFS: County now has 13 glass recycling locations

Gwinnett County and Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, in partnership with Ripple Glass, have added 10 new glass recycling locations across the county. The County’s glass recycling program allows residents to drop off glass for safe and sustainable recycling.

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by · January 9, 2024 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: See if you can pinpoint the location of this sturdy building

MYSTERY PHOTO: See if you can pinpoint the location of this sturdy building

Say what you want, but doesn’t today’s Mystery Photo look sturdy?  This building’s not going anywhere. Can you figure out what its function is, and where it is located?  Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.

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by · January 9, 2024 · Mystery photos
Ellis

Billie Jean Sammons Ellis 

Billie Jean Sammons Ellis, 89, of Duluth, , peacefully entered into the presence of her Lord and Savior on Saturday, January 6, 2024, at her residence surrounded by her loving family.

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by · January 9, 2024 · Obituaries
NEW for 1/5: Revved up; College football; College weekend

NEW for 1/5: Revved up; College football; College weekend

Click here to read the latest GwinnettForum in full. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Suwanee resident reacts to what Jack Bernard says
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Recent college football season gave us much joy
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
ANOTHER VIEW: Ups and downs of a college weekend
FEEDBACK: Feels another insurrection going at border crossing
UPCOMING: Ryan Jones promoted to head Neighborhood Co-op
NOTABLE: Duluth Rotary Club to present local talent show 
RECOMMENDED: The Woods of Fannin County by Janisse Ray
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Clermont Lee was early Georgia  female landscape architect
MYSTERY PHOTO: After an easy one, this photo may stump many
CALENDAR: Historical Society meets January 8 about Hooper-Renwick

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by · January 5, 2024 · Full issues
BRACK: Recent college football season gave us much joy

BRACK: Recent college football season gave us much joy

By Elliott Brack  |  “You betcha,” as they say at North Dakota State, we enjoyed the college football games on television this year.  Now we look forward to Monday night’s championship final.  We just wish Alabama had made it to the finals. They seemed on the ascendancy, but played poorly in the Rose Bowl.

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by · January 5, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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FOCUS: Suwanee resident reacts to what Bernard says

By Jeff Gorke  |  It’s always fun to read Jack Bernard’s missives. They tend to be short on data, long on aspersions while often slamming 50 percent of the population for being mindless rubes. Understand, I’m no Trump supporter, but he isn’t one of the Riders of the Apocalypse, either. 

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by · January 5, 2024 · Today's Focus
Simmons

ANOTHER VIEW: Ups and downs of a college weekend

By David Simmons |  Music can rekindle old memories.  A flashback hit me listening to my song list on Spotify.  Lyin’ Eyes by The Eagles came around on the rotation and it reminded me of a weekend during my college days.  

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by · January 5, 2024 · Another View