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1/24: Aurora’s offerings and the down sides of social media

1/24: Aurora’s offerings and the down sides of social media

Click here to read the latest issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Again This Year, Aurora Theatre Presents Educational Opportunities
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Hunter Upends Gwinnett County’s Calm Diverse Community
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Raises Question of Possible Conflict of Interest of New President
UPCOMING: Phone Scammers Back with Another Way To Part You with Money
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Lifeguards Take First Place at Event for Second Year
RECOMMENDED: Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by David P. Mannix
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Northern Artists Attracted to Savannah for Scenes To Paint
TODAY’S QUOTE: How Bob Uecker Made Out on the Endorsement Circuit
MYSTERY PHOTO: What city has this skyline?
CALENDAR: Coming events

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by · January 24, 2017 · Full issues
BRACK: Hunter upends Gwinnett County’s calm diverse community

BRACK: Hunter upends Gwinnett County’s calm diverse community

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Social media is wonderful and amazing. It is changing the world. But we are finding, it can be dangerous and upsetting, too.

How many family feuds have emerged from the unwise use of social media, with some relatives just plain being too open or curt?

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by · January 24, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Today’s world of the Internet brings with it significant problems

BRACK: Today’s world of the Internet brings with it significant problems

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | What hath the Internet wrought?

That most marvelous of a new age at our fingertips is a force more fierce than we had thought. It is not just an information source, but appears to be much stronger a media than ever were pamphlets, newspapers, the telephone, radio or television.

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by · December 20, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
8/30: Top community college; Perils of social media for kids

8/30: Top community college; Perils of social media for kids

Click here to read the latest full issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Site Ranks Gwinnett Technical College Top Community College in State
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Social Media Blocking Today’s Kids, Curtails Reading and Curiosity
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
FEEDBACK: Polio Is a Terrible Disease Initially, and Can Return Years Later
UPCOMING: 16th British Car Fayre Will Be In Downtown Norcross on September 10
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC’s Todd Evans To Move to Texas with Pedernales EMC
RECOMMENDED STREAMING VIDEO: The Very Secret Service
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Gold in Georgia First Reported in Print in Milledgeville Newspaper in 1829
CALENDAR: Master Violin Makers Coming to Suwanee on September 10
TODAY’S QUOTE: When Everything Seems Under Control, Take Another Look!
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately Georgian Building Could Be Located Almost Anywhere
LAGNIAPPE: Another Look at that Building in Bath, England

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by · August 30, 2016 · Full issues
BRACK: Social media blocking today’s kids, curtails reading and curiosity

BRACK: Social media blocking today’s kids, curtails reading and curiosity

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | What are these social media devices doing to our kids?

Or further, what are these devices doing to all of us?

Look inside yourself: are you hooked on Facebook, or Instagram or Twitter? Or online games, gambling and even pornography?

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by · August 30, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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