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WILSON: Both right and left are dissatisfied with establishment politics
By George Wilson | Everywhere we look, the middle class is squeezed by employers who shrink benefits and pay, eliminate jobs, and fear-pressure their staff to work illegally without overtime pay. The redistribution of income to the top one percent continues unabated. Student loans in the U.S. are choking our future. Medical bankruptcies darken the days of those who most need some light. Some things are very wrong in this country, and these are principally the same things that work well for our peers in Europe and Canada.
1/22: Duluth football history; hospital merger; 60,000 jobs
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Local Author Is Writing History of Start of Duluth Football
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnett Hospital Merger with Northside Moving Well
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s How Governor Deal Could Create 60,000 New Jobs
FEEDBACK: Longtime Forum Reader Presents Another View on Marijuana
UPCOMING: County Plans Road Projects, Seeks Grant, and Expands Fort Daniel Site
NOTABLE: David Raderstorf Captures Kudzu Art Zone Exhibition Prize
RECOMMENDED: Guardians of Prosperity by Richard X. Bove
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Looking Back at Election Officials in Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Napoleon Explains Why We Need Religion
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Spot Mystery, Plus an Explanation of a Previous Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Jasper Johns Exhibit Now Open at Brenau University
WILSON: Reforming the U.S. Senate; Answers to reader comments
By George Wilson | Many people read my two articles about the U.S. Senate and the need for reform. Someone reminded me that even through the U.S. Senate is the least representative body in the world; the British House of Lords is just as bad. I couldn’t agree more and reform is needed in Great Britain.
12/18: Remembering the Thomasons; Hudgens gets new director; U.S. Senate
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Blanche and Troy Thomason of Snellville
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Hudgens Art Center To Announce New Director
ANOTHER VIEW: Something Must Be Done To Reform U.S. Senate
UPCOMING: ARC Seeking Input to Comprehensive Regional Plan
NOTABLE: Here Are Tips for Your Pets from SPCA for the Holidays
RECOMMENDED READ: Shattered Consensus by James Piereson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Many of Melissa Fay Greene’s Books Focus on Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Sit Still and Watch Your Troubles Go Away
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Recognized Recent Photograph
LAGNIAPPE: Fourth Grader Wins Lilburn Woman’s Club Scholarship
WILSON: Something must be done to reform U.S. Senate
By George Wilson | The U.S. Senate is the least representative legislative and worst branch of a government body in the democratic world. An ever shrinking minority of voters has the power to obstruct policies favored by the majority of the American people.
From the 18th century to the present, the ratio of large- to small-state populations has grown from 19-to-1 to 66-to-1. Today, half of the Senate can be elected by 15 percent of the American people—and the problem is only getting worse.
12/4: European vacation, TV antenna, free college
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Roving Photographer Returns from Roving Around Europe
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Having Problems Trying To Hook Up Local-TV Antenna
ANOTHER VIEW: Should College Be Free to All? More on Brokered Convention
FEEDBACK: Wants Next President to Leave Party Label at the White House Door
UPCOMING: Lionheart Theatre Offers Big Variety of Programs for the Holidays
NOTABLE: Michigan Public Health Selects Gwinnett Fire Department for an Award
RECOMMENDED READ: The Abolition of Man; The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wesleyan in Macon Is Oldest Degree-Granting Women’s College
TODAY’S QUOTE: Here’s What Memory Can Give you During the Cold Season
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Spotted Recent Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Snellville Police Citizens Academy Graduates Another Class
WILSON: It works in Germany; Should college be free in USA?
By George Wilson | All German universities are now free to Americans and all other international students. Why are they offering such a generous plan?
It is because their government feels tuition fees are “unjust” and they discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study.
WILSON: There are proven ways how the U.S. can reduce abortions
By George Wilson | The recent Congressional “hearing” of Planned Parenthood was more interrogation than a listening tour. It was political grandstanding of the worst order. Only in the US do we have a “serious” political party who spends their time and taxpayer resources attempting to legislate about their citizen’s sex lives and keep (poor) women in reproductive chains.
Gwinnett Forum | Dec. 24, 2024
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
— American scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706 –1790), via Cindy Evans, Duluth.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The next issue of GwinnettForum will be Jan. 3, 2025.
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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