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NEW for 11/10: On possibilities, media, co-working
Click here read the full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Possibilities: will they be positive or negative?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Our nation is at peril from this surprising development
SPOTLIGHT: Howard Brothers Outdoor Power Equipment and Hardware
ANOTHER VIEW: Coworking space opens at new library in Snellville
FEEDBACK: Appreciates story about inductees into Veterans HOF
UPCOMING: Duluth plans array of frost fun activities
NOTABLE: Lilburn Woman’s Club continues its avenues of service
RECOMMENDED: Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Historic Taliaferro County one of smallest in Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Five-four-and-a door for you to locate
CALENDAR: Gwinnett Symphony Orchestra plans classical concert Sunday night
BRACK: Now the newspaper, too, resorting to blood-and-guts journalism
By Elliott Brack | A few years back, we stopped looking at local TV news, except primarily to see if it was going to rain the next day. (Though the weathermen sometimes get it wrong on the rain, they can pinpoint storms better than ever, and they help keep us safe.) The reason we stopped looking at the nightly local news was that local TV news has deteriorated to mainly blood and guts, shootings, and ambulance chasing. Why bother with such bloodlettings? Is such real, solid reporting?
NEW for 7/22: More on newspapers, Norcross council, Greene
Click here to read our latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Some reasons that newspapers may be declining
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Norcross Council considering charging seniors for waste pick-up
ANOTHER VIEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene is snookering the Democrats
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: PCOM pleased to give medical insight to prospective doctors
UPCOMING: County adds new SPLOST proposal to ballot this November
NOTABLE: Gas South District, Northside Hospital form outreach pact
RECOMMENDED: How the Brain Works
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Cotton Patch Gospel author was Clarence Jordan
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may think this Mystery is in a rain-soaked area
FOCUS: Some reasons that newspapers may be declining
By Joe Briggs | While I grieve with Raleigh Perry on the demise of U.S. newspapers, I disagree with his analysis. He states that people who once stayed informed through daily newspapers have shifted to the convenience of the internet. But he then laments the absence of any substance in the nightly broadcasts. So have the consumers lost interest in the news, or have the news providers lost interest in the consumers?
NEW for 7/19: On democracy, 988 hotline and more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Our democracy may be in trouble with today’s poorer newspapers
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New national suicide prevention phone line is 988
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: Supreme Court has set the stage for turning USA backwards
UPCOMING: Masks now required while inside county facilities
NOTABLE: Gainesville hospital graduates eight in Pathway program
RECOMMENDED: We need your input with new recommendations!
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Scientists hoping to restore American Chestnut tree to maturity
MYSTERY PHOTO: You must look “up” to this week’s Mystery Photo
FOCUS: Our democracy may be in trouble with today’s poorer newspapers
By Raleigh Perry | Coming from a family in Chattanooga with a lot of newspaper people in it and having a newspaper on my breakfast and dinner tables, I have an appreciation of the printed media. There were two dailies. The Times in the morning and the Free Press in the afternoon. One leaned left, the other right.
NEW for 12/14: Dreamers in limbo; Future of newspapers
Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: It’s un-American to hold 700,000 “Dreamers” in limbo
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The status of the newspaper industry is far from its best days
SPOTLIGHT: Comet National Shipping
FEEDBACK: Here’s one family’s ways to simplify Yule gift giving
UPCOMING: Gwinnett opens glass recycling center at Pinckneyville Park
NOTABLE: Duluth resident publishes book about the Summerour family
RECOMMENDED: The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Menaboni’s exhibitions in Georgia continue years after his death
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us where you think this Statue of Liberty is located
LAGNIAPPE: Worldwide photo exhibit now underway at Duluth Public Library
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.
>> Click here for the 11/5 consolidated sample ballot in English/Spanish
>> Click here for the 11/5 consolidated sample ballot in English/Korean/Chinese/Vietnamese
MULBERRY CANDIDATES
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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