Today’s Focus

Briggs

FOCUS: How legislators can help with high home living costs

By Joe Briggs |  Today’s high heating, food, and housing costs should make us all think about what tools we might have to mitigate the issues and what to ask from our state legislators. 

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by · November 22, 2022 · Today's Focus
Morsberger

FOCUS: Join in the movement to send assistance to Ukraine

By Emory Morsberger  |  Eight months ago, Russia’s unprompted attack on Ukraine shocked the world. It was another historical event unfolding before our horrified eyes that compelled me to find a way to help.

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by · November 18, 2022 · Today's Focus
Cofer

FOCUS: WWII African campaign opens the way to Sicily and beyond

By Jim Cofer  |  After Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed American forces would join the Allies in defeating Germany and Italy in Europe. American generals were anxious to join the fray and invade the continent.  

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by · November 15, 2022 · Today's Focus
Wendell Cofer in Italy

FOCUS: Cofer helped organized two veterans’ groups

By James Cofer |  As we observe Veterans’ Day today, my thoughts harken back to my own soldier father, the Rev. Wendell Cofer of Snellville, and all of the ceremonies that he organized to honor veterans.

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by · November 11, 2022 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Georgia’s disastrous Medicaid waiver  may be Kemp’s legacy

FOCUS: Georgia’s disastrous Medicaid waiver  may be Kemp’s legacy

By Jack Bernard |  Our governor, Brian Kemp, is playing culture war politics to the detriment of the residents of Georgia—which has the third most uninsured of any state, 1.4 million people, nearly 14 percent of all residents.  

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by · November 8, 2022 · Today's Focus
Young

FOCUS: Professor says candidates need to talk policy, not just sling mud

By Collin Elder  |  Georgia is once again in the limelight with its upcoming election. Georgia Gwinnett College’s Dr. Laura Young, associate professor of political science, is weighing in on the critical points people should know going into voting.

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by · November 4, 2022 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Best practices at solar farms is to graze sheep under panels

FOCUS: Best practices at solar farms is to graze sheep under panels

By Chris Lunghino  |  Though the renewable energy facilities that help Walton EMC power Meta’s Newton Data Center are often called “solar farms,” they would more accurately be described as “solar ranches,” especially in the way that Walton EMC’s partner, Silicon Ranch, manages them.

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by · November 1, 2022 · Today's Focus
Herndon

FOCUS: Writer remembers article describing fascist Spain

By Ashley Herndon |  In this election cycle before any of us endorse theocratic proto-fascism as a “good” alternative to our democratic republic, understand a miserably failed movement .

“Spain’s Francisco Franco called himself Caudillo, meaning ‘strongman,’ and once in power, quickly began stripping away social freedoms. Up to the early 1930s, Spain (having overcome some historical terrors,) was among Europe’s most progressive countries.”  

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by · October 28, 2022 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Be warned: Republican-led Congress might attack Social Security

FOCUS: Be warned: Republican-led Congress might attack Social Security

By Raleigh Perry  |  Many, if not most, of the Republicans in the House and Senate really want to eliminate Social Security and Medicare.  I think anything that they do will end up in the Supreme Court and if they eliminate, or lessen, Social Security and Medicare, their move will be overturned.

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by · October 25, 2022 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Strategy team presents Gwinnett Mall revitalization plan

FOCUS: Strategy team presents Gwinnett Mall revitalization plan

By Lillian Boff  |  The Gwinnett Place Mall Site Revitalization Strategy Team has presented the implementation strategy for transforming the Gwinnett Place Mall site to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners. The team consists of a partnership effort of Gwinnett County, the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID), and consultant VHB. 

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by · October 21, 2022 · Today's Focus