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3/18: Good year for bankers; Coal ash problems; Corruption
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia Bankers Found 2015 To Be Very Good Year
EEB PERSPECTIVE: What’s Happening in Wayne County Could Happen Anywhere
ANOTHER VIEW: Levels, Examples, and Types of Government Corruption
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Heed the Rules, When Walking along Our Streets
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Library Will Standardize Hours at All Branches on May 16
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation Awards $28,500 to Gwinnett Agencies
RECOMMENDED: Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgians Vote to Move State Capitol to Atlanta from Milledgeville
TODAY’S QUOTE: Here’s a Thought, Just a Day Late
MYSTERY PHOTO: Familiar Looking Scene Might Be Anywhere in Our Area
LAGNIAPPE: GGC and Vietnamese University in Cultural Exchange program
Gwinnett Forum | July 9, 2024
“The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass contained a preface, which was left out of subsequent editions, and in it the author wrote: ‘This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.’”
– American Poet Walt Whitman Jr. (1819-1892).
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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