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NEW for 10/25: Social Security warning; YES for SPLOST
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Be warned: Republican-led Congress might attack Social Security
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Bottom item on ballot: Vote “YES” to extend SPLOST
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: Pols, too, need to EXPLICATE! EXPLICATE! EXPLICATE!
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville seeks call for design of elongated mural
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners partners with Texas regional alliance
RECOMMENDED; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Museum commemorates southwest Georgia civil rights movement
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check out the classic design in this edition’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Highest murder rates are in states of Southeastern Conference
CALENDAR: Groundbreaking Wednesday at Hooper-Renwick Themed Library
NEW for 9/20: On Trump, abortion, and Oxford comma
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TODAY’S FOCUS: On Trump and secret documents: is he the Manchurian Candidate?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Abortion will drive a change in the 2022 elections
ANOTHER VIEW: Some considerations about the Oxford comma
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Likes occasional obituaries of local residents in Forum
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners homeowners get 15% reduction on flood insurance
NOTABLE: GGC again ranks as number one in ethnic diversity in nation
OBITUARIES: Fred A. Banks
RECOMMENDED: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta College of Art becomes absorbed into SCAD
MYSTERY PHOTO: This group readying for a day on the water
LAGNIAPPE: Peach State FCU donates to Walker County schools
CALENDAR: School Superintendent Calvin Watts speaks on State of Schools Wednesday
NEW for 7/22: More on newspapers, Norcross council, Greene
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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 6/10: On hurricanes, voting and guns
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TODAY’S FOCUS: We know hurricanes are coming; Question is how severe and when?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New voting system in primary turned out to be much easier
ANOTHER VIEW: If you must have guns, here’s a list of what you should buy
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
FEEDBACK: From the Spanish Inquisition to Governors Abbott and DeSantis
UPCOMING: Commissioners evaluating feedback about Gwinnett Place Mall
NOTABLE: Gwinnett has best water in state, maybe in the nation
RECOMMENDED: Saving America’s Amazon by Ben Raines
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Archives housed in building near Clayton State University
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may be surprised at where this lighthouse is located
CALENDAR: Ribbon-cutting of interchange of Highway 316-Harbins Road is June 16
Gwinnett Forum | Dec. 20, 2024
“….if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”
— Canadian Author Robertson Davies (1913-1995).
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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