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NEW for 6/2: Thoughts on entitlements and canals
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Entitlements issue is key to reducing the long-term deficit
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Ocmulgee-Flint Canal idea would have been a loser
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Duluth plans sixth annual Clean-Up Day on June 10
NOTABLE: Norcross to hold two important plan updates
RECOMMENDED: Wedding of the Waters by Peter L. Bernstein
GEORGIA TIDBIT: “The Poppy Lady,” Moina Michael, is a native of Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can you identify this snow-capped mountain?
LAGNIAPPE: Others nations have their own national memorial cemeteries
CALENDAR: Ribbon cutting of Homeowners Resource Center in Norcross is June 5
BRACK: Ocmulgee-Flint Canal idea would have been a loser
By Elliott Brack | Let’s delve back some into recent Georgia history. Do you remember a proposal, perhaps 50 years ago? There was talk of the possibility of constructing a shipping canal between the Ocmulgee and Flint Rivers. The closest distance between the two south-flowing rivers is about 30 miles, from Abbeville to west of Cordele.
Gwinnett Forum | April 18, 2025
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
– English critic and essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834).
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
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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