By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist | To get the Covid pandemic under control, we must achieve herd immunity, defined as 75 percent-plus of a state’s total population being fully vaccinated (currently two shots minimum). We have been able to achieve this goal with only one age group, seniors. Areas of the nation with lower vaccination rates have more Covid deaths.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Look at the Transit Improvements That Come With Voting Yes on MARTA
EEB PERSPECTIVE: It’s Good To Have Seen Four Citizens Serve Gwinnett Well
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: Write Your Republicans in Congress To Demand End of Shutdown
UPCOMING: Here’s a Way To Make Sure Your Family Stories Survive
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners Announces Smart City Transportation Lab
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GEORGIA TIDBIT: Early Georgia Legislature Creates UGA, But Slow To Fund It
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CALENDAR: Chocolate Walk Coming to Downtown Braselton February 9
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TODAY’S FOCUS: GACS Has New Tower Gracing Its Campus
EEB PERSPECTIVE: State Needs To Put Limits on Police Chases
ANOTHER VIEW: Both Right and Left are Dissatisfied with Establishment Politics
SPOTLIGHT: Walton EMC
FEEDBACK: More on AT&T Bureaucracy; Would Tunnel Be Better Than Bridge?
UPCOMING: Early Presidential Voting Underway at Eight Locations in Gwinnett
NOTABLE: Regional Science Fair Looking for Judges for February 26 Science Fair
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GEORGIA TIDBIT: Many Varieties of Birds Found in Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Something of a Philosophy from W.C. Fields
MYSTERY PHOTO: What Is This Structure Doing in the Mountain Area
LAGNIAPPE: Beavers Find Ways To Thwart Mankind’s Protective Shield
“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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