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ANOTHER VIEW: It’s going to take all of us to “get ‘er done” 

By Ashley Herndon  |  Last month, Donald Trump was arrested in my home state of Georgia … his fourth indictment in 2023 alone. This one based on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

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by · October 10, 2023 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: County stamps approval of long-range transit plan

NEWS BRIEFS: County stamps approval of long-range transit plan

The Gwinnett Board of Commissioners have approved the $17 billion Transit Development Plan,  (TDP) in anticipation of the county’s recent spike in population and economic growth.   

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by · October 10, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Let’s see how many can identify this

MYSTERY PHOTO: Let’s see how many can identify this

Here’s a stark white modern building. You may have recognized it. Let’s see how many readers can identify this distinctive structure. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.

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by · October 10, 2023 · Mystery photos
NEW for 10/6: A book’s lessons; House speaker; a gift

NEW for 10/6: A book’s lessons; House speaker; a gift

Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Read the book: It Can’t Happen Here; or can it?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Considering the office of Speaker of the U.S. House
SPOTLIGHT: Sugarloaf Community Improvement District
ANOTHER VIEW: Giving Albert’s loved ones a sense of calm
FEEDBACK: Takes umbrage in blaming Biden for the high living cost
UPCOMING: Elisha Winn Fair coming this weekend in Dacula
NOTABLE: Gwinnett County gives its employees a pay raise
OBITUARY: The  Rev. Donald E. Hanberry
RECOMMENDED: The Hill, a movie
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Monticello native was Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army 
MYSTERY PHOTO: Just which country and which city does this represent?
CALENDAR: Dash 4 Domestic Violence Awareness 5K on Saturday

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by · October 6, 2023 · Full issues
Gavel of former House Speaker John Boehner, via Flickr.

BRACK: Considering the office of Speaker of the U.S. House

By Elliott Brack  |  Who is considered the worst Speaker of the House of Representatives ever?  We certainly are no expert, but in the face of the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker, we got to wondering about other speakers in our nation’s history.

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by · October 6, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Perry

FOCUS: Read the book: It Can’t Happen Here; or can it?

By Raleigh Perry  |  It Can’t Happen Here is a book by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935.  I am not going into what takes place in the book, I want you to read it and figure matters out for yourself.  I am basically stating that It Can’t Happen Here just might.  

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by · October 6, 2023 · Today's Focus
Purser

ANOTHER VIEW: Giving Albert’s loved ones a sense of calm

By Tommy Purser  |  We said our last goodbyes to the good wife’s brother this week. It was a sad time but not an unexpected time. We knew it was coming. Dementia …. Alzheimer’s …. whatever it was — there are few things pleasant about the condition.

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by · October 6, 2023 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: 44th Elisha Winn Fair coming this weekend in Dacula

NEWS BRIEFS: 44th Elisha Winn Fair coming this weekend in Dacula

The 44th Elisha Winn Fair will be held this coming weekend, October 7-8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Winn house, 809 Dacula Road in Dacula. Admission is $5 and children under 12 get in free. Funds generated go toward Gwinnett Historical Society’s  Winn House Restoration Account.

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by · October 6, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Just what country and what city does this represent?

MYSTERY PHOTO: Just what country and what city does this represent?

Today’s mystery is merely a street in a town somewhere around the globe. But what country and what town. Search the Internet  if it will help and come up with the name where this photograph was made. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.

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by · October 6, 2023 · Mystery photos
Hanberry

The  Rev. Donald E. Hanberry

The Reverend Donald Edwin Hanberry, 90, of Snellville, was called home to be with the Lord on Friday, September 29, 2023. Donald was born on July 28, 1933 in Clyo, Georgia to Henry Theodore and Lottie Belle Porterfield Hanberry, and educated in Clyo schools.

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by · October 6, 2023 · Obituaries