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NEW for 6/25: Student loans, Ranked choice voting; Inflation

NEW for 6/25: Student loans, Ranked choice voting; Inflation

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Here’s a solution to the national student loan program
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New York’s use of ranked choice voting is major system test
ANOTHER VIEW: Looking at nation’s inflation: it might be worth it
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: Remembering Hill Jordan and a key message he had for an audience
UPCOMING: Duluth rail museum fund drive is gathering steam 
NOTABLE: Building Babies Brains wins $75,000 transformation grant
OBITUARIES: Jim Steele
RECOMMENDED: Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
GEORGIA TIDBIT: UGA women’s swimming team is a top winner in NCAA finals
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately house is this issue’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Start assembling hazardous waste for July 22 recycling

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by · June 25, 2021 · Full issues
7/15: On political polarization; Fallen firefighter from Gwinnett

7/15: On political polarization; Fallen firefighter from Gwinnett

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnettian Reflects About the United States’ Painfully Polarized People
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Bridge Over 1-16 To Be Named for Fallen Firefighter from Gwinnett
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
FEEDBACK: Suggests Retired Counselors To Help DFCS Case Load Problem
UPCOMING: Schelly Marlatt To Become New Clean and Beautiful Director
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville Graduates Seven Students from Explorer’s Program
RECOMMENDED: House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Scientist Became Famous for Work at the University of Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why Sitting Down Helps You In Ways You Can’t Imagine
MYSTERY PHOTO: Even the Weather Might Be A Clue in This Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: State of Peachtree Corners Address by Mayor Coming Monday

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by · July 15, 2016 · Full issues
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WOOD: Gwinnettian reflects about United States’ painfully polarized people

By Michael Wood | Police shooting black men. A black man shooting police. Political candidates for President of the United States who have either old, heavy baggage or who are creating their own new, heavy baggage by producing heavily grating comments.

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by · July 15, 2016 · Today's Focus
6/14: On voting, Islam, gerrymandering

6/14: On voting, Islam, gerrymandering

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Encourages “Never” Candidates To Sit This Year’s Voting Out
EEB PERSPECTIVE: More Understanding and Education To Understand Islam
ANOTHER VIEW: Calls for End of Partisan Gerrymandering in Georgia and Nation
SPOTLIGHT: Mingledorff’s
UPCOMING: Suwanee City Hall Comes Alive with Student 3-D Art
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation Awards $44,485 to Gwinnett Charities
RECOMMENDED: The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Russell Library at UGA Established Without Federal Funds
CALENDAR: Sugar Hill EpiCenter Groundbreaking is June 22
TODAY’S QUOTE: Watch Out to Hanging onto Resentment
MYSTERY PHOTO: Try Your Hand at Locating This Series of Buildings

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by · June 14, 2016 · Full issues
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WOOD: Encourages “Never” candidates to sit this year’s voting out

By Michael Wood, Peachtree Corners, Ga. | Our country now has two major-party, presumptive candidates for president: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. Of course, counting only these two omits candidates from other parties, such as the Libertarian and Green Parties, who have little chance to win the presidency, but who may play spoiler roles by pulling votes away from the two major parties’ candidates.

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by · June 14, 2016 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Writer finds it becomes difficult to think like a centrist

By Michael Wood | Tim Sullivan’s letter in GwinnettForum (2/12/16) illustrates why it’s easy to be an extreme ideologue and it’s hard to be a centrist. He said “…most Americans do not want to become Europe, we do not want to continue the fall into a welfare state where the government provides our every need.” (Emphasis added.) He was directing his comments about Bernie Sanders’ proposals regarding a higher minimum wage, the government reducing people’s student debt, and a single-payer medical care regime, perhaps among other government welfare programs.

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by · March 1, 2016 · Today's Focus
15.04: New sculpture; novelist Michael Brown; more

15.04: New sculpture; novelist Michael Brown; more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: New Sculpture at Environmental Center Honors Wayne Hill
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Loganville’s Michael Brown Writes Novels About the South
FEEDBACK: Oooops. We Re-Printed an Urban Legend
UPCOMING: New Exhibits at Hudgens Art Center Features Aurora Theatre Designs
NOTABLE: Brenau College Dedicates Second Bronze Sculpture, Completing Process
RECOMMENDED READ: Promise of Silver by Michael K. Brown
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia’s Water Comes from Varied Sources
MYSTERY PHOTO: We Tossed a Softball and Many Hit It Out of the Park
LAGNIAPPE: Opening Night at Coolray Field with the Gwinnett Braves

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by · April 14, 2015 · Full issues
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