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ANOTHER VIEW: Yes, it’s hot outdoors, so look out for your pets, too
By Marlene Ratledge Buchanan | Please do me a favor? Take off your shoes and stand on the pavement for three minutes. Now, play fair and do this in the hot part of the day. How did you enjoy that? Are your toes tingly pink? Did you feel the sizzle of summer? Now consider your dog? He hasn’t the option to get off the pavement if he is tethered to you with a leash.
10/11: From bush hogging to 2020 election to impeachment
Click here to read the latest issue of GwinnettForum. In this edition:
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
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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SAMPLE BALLOTS
Consolidated sample ballots are available below and are not specific to a voter’s individual ballot. To find what your ballot will look like, visit My Voter Page on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website.
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Residents of the new city of Mulberry can read answers to questions put to the 15 candidates for the coming council elections through a public service offered by GwinnettForum.
>> Click here to learn about Mulberry’s candidates.
>> Click here for the Mulberry election FAQ and sample ballot
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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