By Bill Long, Shreveport, La. | After retiring from college teaching in July of 2014, I moved to Duluth, Georgia, to be near family. Except for two years in Washington, D.C., where I worked in the U.S. Senate pursuing a graduate degree, and a year in Cambridge, Mass., studying at the post-doctorate level, I had resided in Louisiana where I was born and raised.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Local Ten and Under Baseball Team Wins Title in Panama City
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Before End of Year, City of Rest Haven May Be No More
FEEDBACK: Describes Another “Social Movement Caused by Liberals”
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Tech Photograph on Exhibit; More Sidewalks Coming
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Saves Money By Recycling Ladders on Fire Trucks
RECOMMENDED AUTHOR: Louise Penny of Canada
GEORGIA TIDBIT: More Than 300 Pastors Sign Second Atlanta Ministers’ Manifesto
TODAY’S QUOTE: Here Is the Route If You Really Want To Be Noble
MYSTERY PHOTO: Apparently Few Gwinnettians Have Been to New Mexico
LAGNIAPPE: Four New Officers Sworn into GGC Police Force
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.”
— Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren (1891-1974).
Below are links to the ballots Gwinnett voters face in the May 21 voting.
NONPARTISAN CANDIDATE ANSWERS
To read answers to four questions posted by GwinnettForum to non-partisan candidates, click here. Answers in partisan races are forthcoming.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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