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NEW for 8/1: New danger; FDR history; Presidential children
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: U.S. is in danger of new epidemic from the animal complex
EEB PERSPECTIVE: FDR comes to Georgia and endorses a challenger, who loses
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
ANOTHER VIEW: Actions of presidential children bring disgrace to the office
FEEDBACK: Feels wrong name used in previous edition
UPCOMING: Hudgens $50,000 prize winner show opens Aug. 19
NOTABLE: 63rd Atlanta Model Train show in Duluth Aug. 26
RECOMMENDED: Berry Bar in Johns Creek
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Ponce de Leon ball park was home of the Atlanta Crackers
MYSTERY PHOTO: Colorful umbrellas will protect you when here
CALENDAR: 6th Downtown Wine Walk in Braselton Aug. 10
NEW for 9/11: On hate crimes law, Senate campaign, illegally-dumped tires
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Background on how Georgia’s hate crimes law got passed
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Wayne Johnson bases Senate campaign on student loan reform
ANOTHER VIEW: Support a proposal to rid our area of illegally dumped tires
SPOTLIGHT: Northside Hospital
FEEDBACK: Government not intended to be all things to all people
UPCOMING: UK firm to bring 100 new jobs to Gwinnett County
NOTABLE: PCOM student-doctors offer free flu shots at Lawrenceville ministry
RECOMMENDED: The Book of Joy by The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu (with Douglas Adams)
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Author Mary Hood is two-time winner of the Townsend Prize
MYSTERY PHOTO: One major clue about this Mystery Photo: no mountains!
LAGNIAPPE: Winn DAR chapter represented at Eutaw Springs ceremony
1/21: On Eliza Pinckney; Impeachment; Economy
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Eliza Pinckney Famous in Her Own Right in South Carolina
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Impeachment Trial May Be Democrats’ Last Hope To Oust Trump
ANOTHER VIEW: Appears the Economy Is Chugging Along; Enjoy It Now
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Here Are a Few Solutions To Inform The Fearful Electorate
UPCOMING: New Community Foundation Non-Profit Academy Begins Soon
RECOMMENDED: In Search of Mary Shelley, the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Plant Life Abounds on Many of Georgia’s Granite Outcrops
MYSTERY PHOTO: Aerial Photo of Countryside Is Today’s Mystery Picture
CALENDAR: Elections Board Building To Be Named for Beauty Baldwin
BRACK: Isakson announcement turns Georgia political world topsy-turvy
By Elliott Brack | The political world in Georgia got thrown topsy-turvy for the coming year’s election, when Sen. Johnny Isakson announced that he would resign from the Senate at the end of the year. The senior senator has served with distinction for 14 years, and has been re-elected rather easily two times. He was not so much the Republican party man, as he was more moderate in his decisions, reflecting many Georgian’s views.
BRACK: Remembering who runs the U.S. Senate: The “Grandees”
By Elliott Brack | The United States Senate is a marvelous and imposing palace of government, run by what one person calls the “grandees ,” almost mostly men who have been in power for years.
We lost another gentle Southerner, a “grandee” himself, the other day, as Ernest “Fritz” Hollings of South Carolina passed away at age 97. A former governor who had the level-headed insistence that South Carolina integrate its colleges without incident, he went on to serve 38 years in the Senate.
WILSON: Reforming the U.S. Senate; Answers to reader comments
By George Wilson | Many people read my two articles about the U.S. Senate and the need for reform. Someone reminded me that even through the U.S. Senate is the least representative body in the world; the British House of Lords is just as bad. I couldn’t agree more and reform is needed in Great Britain.
12/22: Woodall and accountability; Christmas music; letters
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Woodall Is Misrepresenting Keeping Partners of U.S. Accountable
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Several Ways To Enjoy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
FEEDBACK: Readers Question If U.S. Senate Needs a Makeover; Idea on Merit Pay
UPCOMING: Duluth Sketching Group Produces Coloring Book for the City
NOTABLE: Graduates of Georgia Gwinnett College Now Total over 3,000
RECOMMENDED READ: Slade House by David Mitchell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native Don West Foremost Regional Poet, and Labor Leader
TODAY’S QUOTE: Recognizing That This Nation Has Two Types of Heroes
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Recognize Last Week’s Mystery Cemetery
LAGNIAPPE: Mary Jane Gresham Is Snellville Senior Center Volunteer of the Year
12/18: Remembering the Thomasons; Hudgens gets new director; U.S. Senate
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Blanche and Troy Thomason of Snellville
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Hudgens Art Center To Announce New Director
ANOTHER VIEW: Something Must Be Done To Reform U.S. Senate
UPCOMING: ARC Seeking Input to Comprehensive Regional Plan
NOTABLE: Here Are Tips for Your Pets from SPCA for the Holidays
RECOMMENDED READ: Shattered Consensus by James Piereson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Many of Melissa Fay Greene’s Books Focus on Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Sit Still and Watch Your Troubles Go Away
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Recognized Recent Photograph
LAGNIAPPE: Fourth Grader Wins Lilburn Woman’s Club Scholarship
WILSON: Something must be done to reform U.S. Senate
By George Wilson | The U.S. Senate is the least representative legislative and worst branch of a government body in the democratic world. An ever shrinking minority of voters has the power to obstruct policies favored by the majority of the American people.
From the 18th century to the present, the ratio of large- to small-state populations has grown from 19-to-1 to 66-to-1. Today, half of the Senate can be elected by 15 percent of the American people—and the problem is only getting worse.
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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