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NEW for 2/2: On Greene in Congress; School board; Aaron
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia and USA would be better off without Greene in Congress
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Faction on School Board could affect district’s accreditation
ANOTHER VIEW: Boyhood hero Hank Aaron continues to inspire
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: O’Lenick no longer effective on Elections Board; should resign
UPCOMING: Button statue at Peachtree Corners to connect with trail
NOTABLE: Senator Rahman is new chair of Gwinnett Senate Delegation
RECOMMENDED: Movie: Uncorked
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Journal of literature and art comes out of Georgia State University
MYSTERY PHOTO: Mystery Photo asks what these numbers are doing on mountain
NEW for 10/9: General election endorsement issue
Click here to read all of the endorsements by GwinnettForum … and more. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Here are GwinnettForum endorsements in upcoming general election
SPOTLIGHT: Law Office of J. Michael Levengood, LLC
FEEDBACK: Early Boston subway was funded by private firms with eminent domain
UPCOMING: Plein Air artists plan event in Duluth for three days
RECOMMENDED: Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia coastal waters provided tremendous varied resource
MYSTERY PHOTO: Official-looking structure is today’s Mystery Photo
NEW for 9/15: On tax law, Buckley campaign, new hero
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Congress, not the president, only has powers to write tax laws
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Allen Buckley bases his Senate campaign on totally new tax plan
ANOTHER VIEW: California hair salon owner is now her new hero
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: Highlights problems with obtaining absentee ballots
UPCOMING: Once again, GGC ranks No. 1 in Southern regional college diversity
NOTABLE: Lilburn yard of Krauses features 200 species of native plants
RECOMMENDED: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
GEORGIA TIDBIT: LaGrange Art Museum focuses on primarily Southern art
MYSTERY PHOTO: This structure has quite a story behind it; where is it?
2/22: Aurora premiere; Open letter to Unterman; State of county
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Aurora Theatre To Present Men With Money March 7 to April 7
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Now Renee, Please Do Not Run for Congress; Stay in the Ga. Senate
ANOTHER VIEW: Nash Concentrates State of the County Talk About Transit Options
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce
FEEDBACK: There Is Reason for Hope for USA, Since Founder’s Ideas Are Timeless
UPCOMING: Six More Open Houses about Transit Vote Coming Up Soon
NOTABLE: GGC’s Spring Commencement Speaker Will Be Four-Star General
RECOMMENDED: Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Julia Flisch Was An Early Advocate for Women’s Rights in Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s Mystery Photo Asks Simply, Whose House and Where
CALENDAR: Second Annual Snellville Youth Summit will be Saturday, February 23
BRACK: An open letter to Sen. Renee Unterman
By Elliott Brack | FEB. 22, 2019 — Now, Renee. Don’t run for the Seventh District seat in Congress.
Gwinnett County, Buford, and the state need you in the Georgia Senate, where you will remain much more effective than you would as a freshman representative in the House of Representatives in Washington.
12/4: Light Up Georgia with Kindness; McBath and more: George Strait
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Light Up Georgia with Kindness Seeks Beginning of New Tradition
EEB PERSPECTIVE: McBath Will Do Well; Return of Quotes and Snellville Relatives
ANOTHER VIEW: Thanksgiving, George Strait, Deep Fried Turkey and English Visitor
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Gwinnett CID
UPCOMING: Duluth Set To Get Guidance from Citizens’ Budget Review Committee
NOTABLE: Walton EMC Customers To Share in Refund Totaling $6 Million
RECOMMENDED: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Coosa and Tallapoosa River Basins Originate in North Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another Mystery Photo with Water Among the Clues in the Background
CALENDAR: Lilburn Christmas Parade Rescheduled for Saturday, December 8
BRACK: McBath will do well; Return of quotes and Snellville relatives
By Elliott Brack | DEC. 4, 2018 | Hurrah for Lucy McBath of Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District! We predict she’ll do well in the Congress.
Being a new Congressperson cannot be easy. After all, there’s a tremendous amount of difference between being a candidate for Congress, and then of about dealing with constituents from afar, about living in Washington, and maneuvering around all this morass.
11/20: Walton EMC responds; Congressional seats; Anti-Semitism
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Walton EMC Assists Six EMCs in South Georgia in Restoring Power
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Congress Is Sole Judge of Who Should Be Seated in Both Houses
ANOTHER VIEW: Anti-Semitism Growing: When Good People Fail to Act, Evil Grows.
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce
RECOMMENDED: Movie: Instant Family
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River Forms the Boundary with South Carolina
MYSTERY PHOTO: Menacing Giant Spider Seeks Someone To Figure Where Located
LAGNIAPPE: Ten GACS Athletes Win College Scholarships
CALENDAR: Nature Photo Workshop To Be November 30 at Suwanee Library
BRACK: Congress is sole judge of who should be seated in both houses
By Elliott Brack | The hullabaloo over voter fraud all across the country, we suspect, is much ado about not much. Yet here in Georgia, we’ve heard of some who say they were, in one way or another, blocked from voting. Most election officials are upright citizens, and wouldn’t stand for it if they suspected fraud.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 22, 2024
“We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
– Etiquette Authority Judith Martin (1938 – ), also known as Miss Manners.
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?
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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