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NEW for 2/28: On the school board, where you live and sales

NEW for 2/28: On the school board, where you live and sales

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Comment from a recent meeting with Gwinnett’s School Board
EEB PERSPECTIVE: What is your reason you live where you do?
SPOTLIGHT: Crowne Plaza Hotel
ANOTHER VIEW: Two simple lessons taught this lesson in salesmanship
FEEDBACK: Schools should focus on fixing lack of courtesy and accountability 
UPCOMING: Commission gives green light to variety of new project
NOTABLE: Gainesville Hospital become Level One Trauma Center
RECOMMENDED: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper helps protect these waters
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check out these standing plaques and tell where they are
LAGNIAPPE: Beautiful blooms at the Collins Hill Public Library
CALENDAR: State of the County speech will be on March 2 

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by · February 28, 2023 · Full issues
NEW FOR 3/8: State of county; Flawed election process; Cherished memory

NEW FOR 3/8: State of county; Flawed election process; Cherished memory

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TODAY’S FOCUS: People and place continue to evolve, bringing possibilities
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Timing of school board nonpartisan election is flawed 
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering two trips to Arles, and the art of van Gogh
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Yet another transit study; what’s the count now?
UPCOMING: Redner leaving Community Foundation; it seeks new leader
NOTABLE: PCOM students bring Two Step CPR to Mall
RECOMMENDED: The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Ga. Tech Poet Larry Rubin focused on historical images
MYSTERY PHOTO: It’s a small building, but was mighty important
LAGNIAPPE: Bird photos from Bali on display in Lawrenceville 
CALENDAR: Senior living options is the topic tonight at Five Forks Branch Library

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by · March 8, 2022 · Full issues
BRACK: Timing of school board nonpartisan election is flawed 

BRACK: Timing of school board nonpartisan election is flawed 

By Elliott Brack  |  Gwinnett voters will elect two members of the school board in 2022, and this  vote will be in a nonpartisan election. However, we feel the change in the law to require a nonpartisan election is flawed. You see, the people writing the new regulations never considered the best way to have a nonpartisan election. They just went along with the requirements in the only other non-partisan election in Gwinnett, where judges are elected.

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by · March 8, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Dixon

BRACK: Two announcements last week drew immediate uproars

By Elliott Brack  |  Two events last week in Gwinnett County drew immediate uproars. One apparently got people fired up enough so much that it was immediately withdrawn.

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by · November 16, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Loew

FOCUS: Applauds Dixon for seeking non-partisan school board

By Cathy Loew |  Let me applaud Senator Clint Dixon’s attempt to rein in the highly politicized school board. This was Everton Blair’s plan as Benjamin Herald explained in Education Week, October 26, 2020, “How the Fight for America’s Suburbs Started in Public Schools.” 

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by · November 16, 2021 · Today's Focus
NEW for 3/23: On battery plant, school superintendent, “begging season”

NEW for 3/23: On battery plant, school superintendent, “begging season”

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Presidential action needed soon to save vast battery plant 
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Can Gwinnett’s high quality school program continue?
ANOTHER VIEW: Why not call it the season for public begging on television? 
SPOTLIGHT: Comet National Shipping
FEEDBACK: Two-edged sword: be careful what you wish for 
UPCOMING: New GGC dean to lead School of Science and Technology
NOTABLE: County gets new parkland and buys new storage site
RECOMMENDED: A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Tuskegee Airmen P-51s excelled as bomber escorts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Assistance: this Mystery Photo is not a wine cellar

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by · March 23, 2021 · Full issues
Can Gwinnett’s high quality school program continue?

Can Gwinnett’s high quality school program continue?

By Elliott Brack  |  Last week’s discharge of School Superintendent Alvin Wilbanks from his post leading the Gwinnett County Board of Education came as no surprise. The Black majority on the board made good on its promise to voters to replace him. 

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by · March 23, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
NEW for 2/2: On Greene in Congress; School board; Aaron

NEW for 2/2: On Greene in Congress; School board; Aaron

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia and USA would be better off without Greene in Congress
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Faction on School Board could affect district’s accreditation
ANOTHER VIEW: Boyhood hero Hank Aaron continues to inspire
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: O’Lenick no longer effective on Elections Board; should resign
UPCOMING: Button statue at Peachtree Corners to connect with trail
NOTABLE: Senator Rahman is new chair of Gwinnett Senate Delegation
RECOMMENDED: Movie: Uncorked
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Journal of literature and art comes out of Georgia State University
MYSTERY PHOTO: Mystery Photo asks what these numbers are doing on mountain

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by · February 2, 2021 · Full issues
Lanier High School, near Buford, Ga.

BRACK: Fraction on school board could affect district’s accreditation

By Elliott Brack  |  The current unrest caused by two new members of the Gwinnett School Board threatens the school board’s accreditation.  The problem centers on governance.

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by · February 2, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
New for 1/22: On Hudgens Center, school board, Brexit

New for 1/22: On Hudgens Center, school board, Brexit

Click here to read the latest issue. In this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: The Hudgens Center looks to decade of arts leadership growth
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Minority School Board members seek termination of Wilbanks
ANOTHER VIEW: At last, England has a Brexit deal with the European Union
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
FEEDBACK: Suggests ways to make our country mentally healthier
UPCOMING: Brenda Lopez Romero is new chair of Gwinnett Democrats
NOTABLE: Mountain Park area seeking input through survey of residents
RECOMMENDED: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Augusta twice occupied by British in Revolutionary War
MYSTERY PHOTO: Distinctive architecture characterizes this Mystery Photo

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by · January 22, 2021 · Full issues
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