By Elliott Brack | With the Georgia primary now scheduled to be held on June 19, it gives GwinnettForum a little more time to make contact with candidates who have opposition in the Georgia primary. Actually, we’ve made pretty good progress this year, having talked to 73 candidates so far, in order to get to know them.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Excitement for a 14 Year Old Wearing Converse High Tops
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Time to Eat Crow and Apologize for Error on Loganville Election
ANOTHER VIEW: Considerations for President Trump with the Senior Voters
SPOTLIGHT: Renasant Bank
FEEDBACK: The People Chose a Certain Rock; But Do They Still Feel Well?
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Continuing To Benefit From Top Financial Ratings
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Accepting Apps for 2020 Washington Youth Tour
RECOMMENDED: Movie: The Beautiful Fantastic
GEORGIA TIDBIT: “Piano Red” Perryman Also Performed As “Dr. Feelgood”
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Traditional Shipyard Mystery Has Many Interesting Facets
LAGNIAPPE: Another Good Guesser Who Gets the Mystery Photos
CALENDAR: Pop-Up Lilburn Farmers Market will be Saturday, November 23
By Elliott Brack | Every so often in the news business, you find it’s time to eat crow. Today is such a day for me.
Last Friday we fouled on reporting the results of the Loganville election. Going to the Internet, we posted the results of the 2017 election, thinking we had the 2019 election. We simply did not read the small print correctly, and gave the wrong information.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: October Marks 50th Anniversary of Perimeter Highway, I-285
EEB PERSPECTIVE: One Gwinnett City Election in 2019 Has An Unusual Twist
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: It’s Time To Get Back to the Business of Running this Country
UPCOMING: County To Fund Restoration Work at Historic Winn and Nash Homes
NOTABLE: Railway Museum To Conduct Feasibility Analysis on Development
RECOMMENDED: Ninety Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Ellijay in Gilmer County Known as Georgia Apple Capital
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today the Mystery Photo Is of a Person, Not a Site
CALENDAR: Pumpkin Painting at One Stop Norcross on October 19
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TODAY’S FOCUS: We Find a Lady Whose Enjoyable Hobby Is…..Bush hogging
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Will Election 2020 in Gwinnett Be 1984 Upset in Reverse?
ANOTHER VIEW: Government Questionnaire Seemed To Be Unruly Interruption
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.,
FEEDBACK: Time for Dems To Abandon Their Impeachment and Get a New Hobby
UPCOMING: 20th Annual Great Days of Service Are October 25-26; Sign Up Now
NOTABLE: GACS Student from Duluth Is National Merit Semifinalist for 2020
RECOMMENDED: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
GEORGIA TIDBIT: National Newspapers Credit Georgia with Saving the Union
MYSTERY PHOTO: Highway, Buildings, Hills Could Identify This Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Shiloh High Team Hears More About Digital Badge Program
CALENDAR: Zombie Run 5K will be October 19 in Braselton
By Elliott Brack | Many of our readers may not remember what happened politically in Gwinnett in 1984. It was a major year for change in Gwinnett.
There’s reason many Gwinnettians may not remember it. That’s because in 1984 there were 226,100 people in Gwinnett. Today the population is 921,781, so another 701,681 people live here now. A majority were just not here in 1984.
By Elliott Brack | The political world in Georgia got thrown topsy-turvy for the coming year’s election, when Sen. Johnny Isakson announced that he would resign from the Senate at the end of the year. The senior senator has served with distinction for 14 years, and has been re-elected rather easily two times. He was not so much the Republican party man, as he was more moderate in his decisions, reflecting many Georgian’s views.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: The Pomposity of Some Author’s Word Usage Baffles the Mind
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Could Political History in Gwinnett Repeat in a Different Way in 2020?
ANOTHER VIEW: Measles Making a Comeback in USA: Get Shots for Children
SPOTLIGHT: Mingledorff’s
FEEDBACK: Paying Attention to the Color of a Patron’s Hair at a Restaurant
UPCOMING: Info Session To Be May 20 on New Turning Directions in Snellville
NOTABLE: Lilburn CID Elects Comonte and Freeman As New Board Members
RECOMMENDED: Movie: A Little Chaos
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgian Who Was First Lady Is Buried in Rome Cemetery
MYSTERY PHOTO: Wooden Covered Bridge Seeks Your Answer as to Location
LAGNIAPPE: Isakson, Perdue and Woodall Welcome Gwinnett Group to D.C.
CALENDAR: Jack Reacher in Song Coming to Red Clay Theatre
By Elliott Brack | Is the Gwinnett political year shaping up similar to what happened in 1984? Could history repeat itself….in a slightly different way?
Those of you not living here then may not realize how pivotal 1984 was for political parties in Gwinnett. Up until that time, there were a few Republican office holders in Gwinnett. Louise Radloff was the first, having been elected as a Republican in 1973.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
–British Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970).
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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