By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | When you anticipate running for political office, you can never tell what may throw any well-planned campaign off the tracks.
Most statewide offices are not up for grabs this year. Only the contest for a seat on the Public Service Commission is on the ballot, statewide, this year. There are three candidates for that six-year term.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: DUI Convictions Are Not Only Expensive Propositions but Last Forever
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Italy’s Berlusconi and Trump Come from Similar Backgrounds
SPOTLIGHT: The Piedmont Bank
FEEDBACK: FBI Needs to Try To Tap Into Phone, Without the Help of Apple
UPCOMING: Jackson EMC Offering “Bright Ideas” Grants to School Teachers
NOTABLE: PCOM Elects David McCleskey to its Board of Trustees
RECOMMENDED: The Autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A. Goodman
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Long Serving Georgian Naval Officer Scuttles Confederate’s Merrimac
TODAY’S QUOTE: Considering What Is Infinite and What Might Not Be
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can You Tell from the Snow Where This Is Located?
LAGNIAPPE: Lilburn Resident Wins DAR Outstanding Veteran Volunteer Award
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Understanding the Differences in Muslim Organizations
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Could 2016 Be the Year for the Death of the Republican Party?
ANOTHER VIEW: Traveling Gwinnettian Learning as He Treks Through Europe
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Wants More Sidewalks from Subdivisions to the Parks
UPCOMING: Changes Coming to Braselton Farmer’s Market, which Opens in June
NOTABLE: Supporters Give $50,000 to Renovated Media Center at Norcross High
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Women Become Famous With Astonishing Vaudeville Acts
TODAY’S QUOTE: Lewis Grizzard Could Be Poetic, Too
MYSTERY PHOTO: What? This Library Does Not Contain Any Books?
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | This year you may be seeing right before your eyes the death of the Republican Party in national politics. If it happens, we lament it. (We feel that our country benefits by have a strong two party system.) It appears that the GOP could find itself threatened in this crazy political year.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Is this the year of the Trump?
It looks more like it every day. The voting today in 11 states could open the way, it would appear, toward the Trump nomination as the GOP candidate. Efforts over the last few days to meld together old-line Republicans in solid opposition just didn’t work.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Attributed to American Poet and Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882.)
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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