By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Gerrymandering. It’s a menace to democracy, awkward, unnatural, outlandish, usually circuitous and often a patchwork, difficult to envision. Right now, however, it’s within the law, and its outcomes are hard to understand. I’m talking about some of the nation’s 435 Congressional districts.
For the 2016 General Election, GwinnettForum asked all candidates facing opposition in Gwinnett County, and also asked all statewide candidates, to provide answers to six questions. You can read their answers below by clicking on the links. Candidates with no opposition are not listed. PROFILE KEY (DNR) indicates a candidate did not respond to our interview request. (NoQ) means the […]
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | People love sales. We all, if we were allowed to choose, would rather buy something at 40 percent off the regular price, than at the regular price.
That’s essentially what the Gwinnett County School Board is offering Gwinnettians in the November 3 referendum on whether to approve the one-cent sales tax to fund school infrastructure, the educational Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST). If approved, Gwinnett County’s school sales tax level will continue without an increase through 2022.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett Ballet Theatre To Give “Sensory Friendly” Performances
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Year Before An Election Often Far More Interesting Than Election Year
FEEDBACK: Hospital Merger, Identifying Politicians and Long Lost Contributor
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Chamber Backs E-SPLOST Election Coming This November
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville Council Meetings Now Available Online
RECOMMENDED READ: The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens by Thomas Hauser
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Early Settlers Were Relatively Young, with Children
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Can Happen When You Open the Door for People
MYSTERY PHOTO: That Windmill May Have Confused Many People
LAGNIAPPE: How Texans Add Things Up
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
– British biologist and writer Sir Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987).
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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