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NEW for 3/22: Fighting for principles; USA’s colleges

NEW for 3/22: Fighting for principles; USA’s colleges

Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: We must fight for our principles every single day
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Most of USA’s colleges started by our churches
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Aurora Theatre offers five productions in 29th season
NOTABLE: JEMC Foundation makes grants of $69,575 to Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: One Life by Ellen Holly
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia’s 1877 Constitution in force until 1945
CALENDAR: Sugar Hill’s 85th birthday celebration is March 24 

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by · March 22, 2024 · Full issues
NEW for 11/17: Letting freedom ring; Winford Lindsay; On COVID

NEW for 11/17: Letting freedom ring; Winford Lindsay; On COVID

Click here to read the latest issue. In this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Indeed, it is time for our nation to “Let Freedom Ring!”
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Dacula and Harbins lose cherished member in Winford Lindsay
ANOTHER VIEW: Bringing you up to date on COVID-19 statistics in Gwinnett
SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center
FEEDBACK: Concerned by some going down rabbit hole with character attack
UPCOMING: Largest-ever grant to GGC comes from Goizueta Foundation 
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC donates $25,000 to Special Needs School 
RECOMMENDED: More Than You Know by Penny Vincenzi
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Savannah River, 313 miles long, forms border with South Carolina
MYSTERY PHOTO: Steeply-pitched roof of building is today’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: FDR’s railcar now located at Duluth’s Railway Museum 

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by · November 17, 2020 · Full issues
BRACK: Some thinkers are getting concerned about a right to privacy

BRACK: Some thinkers are getting concerned about a right to privacy

By Elliott Brack  | Times were far different in the age of the Founding Fathers.  They thought long and hard, and recognized that mankind wanted certain guarantees from government. What they came up with was to recognize “certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  

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by · November 22, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Norman Rockwell’s depiction of "Freedom from Fear."

BRACK: Freedom from fear is one of our basic rights in the USA

By Elliott Braci  | It was the way that President Trump went about trying to deport people that bugged me.  He made several announcements and pronouncements well in advance that on a certain Sunday there would be raids to “send ‘em back” to their home country.

This caused great fear among people, many of them working steadily for their citizenship, fearful that they somehow would be caught up in this rush to judgment, and be deported.

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BRACK: Today’s world of the Internet brings with it significant problems

BRACK: Today’s world of the Internet brings with it significant problems

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | What hath the Internet wrought?

That most marvelous of a new age at our fingertips is a force more fierce than we had thought. It is not just an information source, but appears to be much stronger a media than ever were pamphlets, newspapers, the telephone, radio or television.

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by · December 20, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
10/30: Remembering Rhodes Jordan, E-SPLOST, more

10/30: Remembering Rhodes Jordan, E-SPLOST, more

Click here to view new edition. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Rhodes Jordan, Namesake of New Lawrenceville School
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here Are More Reasons To Vote for E-SPLOST Continuation
ANOTHER VIEW: There Are Many Ways an Individual Is Not Free
FEEDBACK: Letters on our Constitution; Annandale Run; and E-SPLOST
UPCOMING: Connie Wiggins Plans To Retire from Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
NOTABLE: Suwanee Medical School Names “Champions of PCOM”; YSS Expands
RECOMMENDED READ: The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia During Administration of Royal Governor James Wright
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Small People Talk About in Gatherings
MYSTERY PHOTO: Five Recognize Home in Slovenia

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by · October 30, 2015 · Full issues
WILSON: Many ways when individual isn’t free

WILSON: Many ways when individual isn’t free

By George Wilson | George Lakoff is distinguished professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book is the ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant. In it he makes the following observations.

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by · October 30, 2015 · Another View