By Elliott Brack | Many of the precautions our medical community is taking in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic stem from the reaction in American cities during the influenza pandemic more than a hundred years ago, in 1918. The world-wide spread of the flu came as soldiers returned home from the trench warfare of the first Great War.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Saving the Georgia Coast Looks at History and Speaks to Today
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnett Readies To Set New World Standard for Water Technology
ANOTHER VIEW: In Our Current Crisis, Why, Yes Indeed, We Talk to Strangers
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: Wants Clarification on Conservatives term of “Limited Government”
UPCOMING: Community Foundation Announces Plans for Coronavirus Relief
NOTABLE: SPLOST Pays for New Fire Engines, Costing $642,147 Each
RECOMMENDED: The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Milton County, Broke During Depression, Absorbed by Fulton County
MYSTERY PHOTO: Off-the-beaten Path Photo is Today’s Mystery Picture
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
– Nighttime TV Host Johnny Carson(1925 – 2005).
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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