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10/26: Big Data; Constitutional amendments; Portugal’s way
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Solution Will Be from Government: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Consideration of Five Constitutional Amendments on Upcoming Ballot
ANOTHER VIEW: Having Tried Everything Else, Perhaps We Should Try Portugal’s Way
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
UPCOMING: Commissioners Approve 2040 Comprehensive for County’s Future
NOTABLE: Sugar Hill To Host Extraordinary Traveling Troupe in December
RECOMMENDED: Wallander: From the Swedish Mystery series by Henning Mankell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native Was the Librarian of Congress for More Than a Decade
MYSTERY PHOTO: Identify This Skyscraper for Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Concussion Discussion Coming on November 1
10/28: No, Yes, No, No on constitutional amendments, more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Voting “Yes” on Amendment Means Helping and Hope for Child Victims
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Vote Against Three of Four State Constitutional Amendments
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
UPCOMING: Telling the World of Holocaust Is Subject of Gwinnett Presentation
NOTABLE: Primerica Foundation Announces 2016 Grants Totaling $960,000
RECOMMENDED: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta Is Home To the Arthritis Foundation, Founded in 1948
TODAY’S QUOTE: Determining If It’s A Good Time to Take a Hike
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Classic Building Could Be Anywhere in the World
LAGNIAPPE: Lack of Rain Shows Drought Being Felt at Gwinnett Lakes
CALENDAR: Luxomni Community Fall Festival Is This Sunday, October 30
Gwinnett Forum | Dec. 24, 2024
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
— American scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706 –1790), via Cindy Evans, Duluth.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The next issue of GwinnettForum will be Jan. 3, 2025.
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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