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10/4: On the presidential race, baseball and more

10/4: On the presidential race, baseball and more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Does Our Nation Want a Leader Who is a Bully and a Con Artist?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Maybe Baseball Suggests Better Way of Picking Political Candidates
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
UPCOMING: Heritage Center Plans First Leif Erikson Day on October 10
NOTABLE: Gainesville Hospital System To Purchase Barrow Medical Center
RECOMMENDED: Stone Mountain Highland Games
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Siege of Savannah Was Second Deadliest Revolutionary War Battle
TODAY’S QUOTE: Weakness Is Often Hidden in Bluster and Boasting and Rashness
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another Beautiful Vista for You To Guess Where It is
CALENDAR: Several Authors To Visit Gwinnett Soon

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by · October 4, 2016 · Full issues
FOCUS: Does our nation want a leader who is a bully and a con artist?

FOCUS: Does our nation want a leader who is a bully and a con artist?

By Alvin Leaphart, Jesup, Ga. | My grandmother, Florence Gibbs, a former United States Congressman, taught me “Noblesse oblige,” a French phrase meaning “nobility obliges.” It is the concept that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person who holds such status to fulfill social responsibilities, particularly in leadership roles. She fervently believed that this applied to everyone in government, from the bottom to the top.

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by · October 4, 2016 · Today's Focus
TUGGLE: Progressivism and checking beyond the edges in the Trump arena

TUGGLE: Progressivism and checking beyond the edges in the Trump arena

By Hoyt Tuggle | This is in response to Debra Houston. It is history and the current political situation from a different perspective.

Progressivism has been a significant component of the Democratic Party since Woodrow Wilson. This division within the Democratic Party has been pretty much an ongoing battle except for the FDR years. In modern times it surfaced between Jimmy Carter and the Democratic establishment. It accounted for as much of his failures as did anything.

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by · September 16, 2016 · Another View
9/9: On helping disabled; Voters lamenting presidential choices

9/9: On helping disabled; Voters lamenting presidential choices

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Friends of the Disabled Helps With Distribution of Medical Equipment
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Voters on Both Sides Lament “What to Do?” in Presidential Race
ANOTHER VIEW: Not Everyone Will Decide That They Just Cannot Fail To Vote
SPOTLIGHT: The Piedmont Bank
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners Plans First Ever Recycling Event Sept. 10
NOTABLE: Re-organized Summerour Middle PTA Adopts Promise of Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: Dahlonega Spa Resort
GEORGIA TIDBIT: A Brief Look at Eastern Air Lines, Once Dominant in Atlanta
TODAY’S QUOTE: Often It Is Difficult To Work Around Silence
MYSTERY PHOTO: Local Couple Seek Help in Identifying Location of This Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Photographer Enjoys Day at the Atlanta Zoo
CALENDAR: Panel Discussion September 17 on the late Pat Conroy

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by · September 9, 2016 · Full issues
8/19: On JapanFest; New funeral home; November’s vote

8/19: On JapanFest; New funeral home; November’s vote

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TODAY’S FOCUS: 30th Annual Japan Fest Coming to Duluth Weekend of September 17-18
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Byrd and Flanigan in Lawrenceville Is City’s Fifth Funeral Home
ANOTHER VIEW: She Might Just Stay at Home When Election Day Rolls Around
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Campus, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
FEEDBACK: Thinking Forward To What Might Happen in the Election
UPCOMING: Suwanee Council Plans Millage Rate Which is 5.18% Higher for 2017
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation Grants in Gwinnett for July Total $67,500
RECOMMENDED: Hillbilly Elegy-A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance.
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Fort Gillem in Forest Park Was First Opened in 1941
CALENDAR: Suwanee Library To Close One Day for Renovation in September
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Cynicism Really Amounts To
MYSTERY PHOTO: A Snowy Mystery Photograph During These Dog Days of Summer`
LAGNIAPPE: Presiding Fulton Juvenile Court Judge Speaks at GGC

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by · August 19, 2016 · Full issues
HOUSTON: Might just stay at home when election day rolls around

HOUSTON: Might just stay at home when election day rolls around

By Debra Houston | A few random thoughts today.

I mentioned to my hairdresser I might not vote in the presidential election. “You must!” she said. “Not voting at all is an automatic yes-vote for Trump.”

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by · August 19, 2016 · Another View
Van Gundy

FOCUS: Report from a Gwinnettian on the GOP convention

By B.J. Van Gundy | Two weeks ago it was my honor to be one of the 76 GOP Delegates to represent Georgia at the Republican National Convention. I have now attended several conventions and the feeling of appreciation for those that put their faith in me to represent them, as well as the excitement, has not diminished since my first national convention in San Diego in 1996.

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by · August 5, 2016 · Today's Focus
6/14: On voting, Islam, gerrymandering

6/14: On voting, Islam, gerrymandering

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Encourages “Never” Candidates To Sit This Year’s Voting Out
EEB PERSPECTIVE: More Understanding and Education To Understand Islam
ANOTHER VIEW: Calls for End of Partisan Gerrymandering in Georgia and Nation
SPOTLIGHT: Mingledorff’s
UPCOMING: Suwanee City Hall Comes Alive with Student 3-D Art
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Foundation Awards $44,485 to Gwinnett Charities
RECOMMENDED: The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Russell Library at UGA Established Without Federal Funds
CALENDAR: Sugar Hill EpiCenter Groundbreaking is June 22
TODAY’S QUOTE: Watch Out to Hanging onto Resentment
MYSTERY PHOTO: Try Your Hand at Locating This Series of Buildings

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by · June 14, 2016 · Full issues
Wood

WOOD: Encourages “Never” candidates to sit this year’s voting out

By Michael Wood, Peachtree Corners, Ga. | Our country now has two major-party, presumptive candidates for president: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. Of course, counting only these two omits candidates from other parties, such as the Libertarian and Green Parties, who have little chance to win the presidency, but who may play spoiler roles by pulling votes away from the two major parties’ candidates.

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by · June 14, 2016 · Today's Focus
BRACK: Questions arise now that presidential contest is almost settled

BRACK: Questions arise now that presidential contest is almost settled

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher, GwinnettForum | You must admit that social media has been a mighty contributor to this 2016 political season.

In another way of saying this: look what we have done to ourselves.

We couldn’t get enough of Trump, or Bernie, and every so often, some of the other presidential candidates. So we turned inward, creating more bizarre buzzing for the political year.

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by · May 10, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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