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MYSTERY PHOTO: Facing busts are today’s Mystery Photo
Today’s Mystery Photo is of two busts facing one another. Identify the guys in the busts and tell us where this photograph was made. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. gives us details on the recent mystery: “Today’s mystery photo is of the Lonja del Comercio (Commerce Market) building, located in the Plaza de San Francisco de Asís in Old Havana, Cuba.
5/6: Survey on Peachtree Corners’ bridge; Our primary endorsements; Cuba
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Survey Says Majority of Peachtree Corners Residents Oppose Bridge
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Consider These Candidates When You Go Into the Voting Booth
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s Another Look of Recent Trip to Cuba by Southern Journalists
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning Inc.
FEEDBACK: How Patty Davis Says Alzheimer’s Touched Ronald Reagan
UPCOMING: Commissioners OKs $75 Million Addition for Gwinnett Courthouse
NOTABLE: Refunding Water-Sewer Bonds Results in $18.5 Million Savings
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Union Forces Capture Jefferson Davis in Irwin County
TODAY’S QUOTE: Shhh. Or the Whole World May Know!
MYSTERY PHOTO: New Mystery Photo May Bring Lots of Head Scratching
DADISMAN: Another view of recent trip to Cuba by Southern journalists
By Carrol Dadisman | Americans visiting Cuba on recently-authorized “people to people” tours catch only glimpses of the burdens borne by 11 million Cubans still subjected to Communist rule. But they see flashes of change and innovation that eventually could unlock the latent potential of our island neighbor.
5/3: On Peachtree Corners, visit to Cuba, tax breaks
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Peachtree Corners Mayor Answers Questions on Proposed Bridge
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Visit to Cuba Shows Happy, Friendly People, But Crumbling Buildings
ANOTHER VIEW: State Should Call Bluff of Filmmaker’s Many Tax Breaks in Georgia
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Braves
FEEDBACK: Letters On Bridges, Cubans, Artists and Candidates
UPCOMING: Aurora Theatre Announced Themes, Times for Summer Acting Camp
NOTABLE: Mural in Toyota Promotion To Remain in Norcross’ Skin Alley
RECOMMENDED: Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew by Michael Morpurgo
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Horace Ware Born Lowly, Rises to Federal Judicial Bench
TODAY’S QUOTE: When To Start on Your Retirement Activity
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Significant Hints In This Edition’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Peachtree Corners Rotary Hosts First Career Exploration Night
BRACK: Visit to Cuba shows happy, friendly people but crumbling buildings
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | While visiting Cuba last week, we didn’t get much contact with everyday Cuban people. My wife and I were on a visit with primarily American newspaper people.
Other than Cubans at our hotel and restaurants, meeting and talking with Cubans was not part of our trip to this island nation of 11 million people.
4/26: On artists’ driving forces; A 57-year-old organization
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TODAY’S FOCUS: What Drives the Artists to Keep “Taking a Licking” from Viewers?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: What One Organization Faces After 57 Years of Operations
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District
FEEDBACK: Idea of a Bridge Across 141 Has Awakened Peachtree Corners as Issue
UPCOMING: County Buys New Devices to Help in Cardiac Arrest Cases
NOTABLE: GACS Announces New Roles for Four Veteran Educators
GEORGIA TIDBIT: World’s First Black Combat Aviator Was Born in Stewart County
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Doing Good in the United States Has Become
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Clues in This Round-About May Lead You to Solution
LAGNIAPPE: Rotary Honors Connie Wiggins for Her Extensive Service to Gwinnett
FOCUS: 16 years after dropping out, Loganville resident completes college
By Cody Nichelson | “Amazing and exhausting.” Those are two words that Ruth Colquitt of Loganville uses to describe her journey back to college. Some 16 years after dropping out, she wanted to gain a steady career in an increasingly competitive environment.
Her desire for a degree, however, started much earlier.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 1, 2024
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
– The second president of the United States, John Adams (1735-1826).
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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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