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NEW for 5/27: On narcissism, negotiations and financial matters
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: How we can stop narcissism in our nation
EEB PERSPECTIVE: County, Mulberry city need to start discussions
SPOTLIGHT: Oconee State Bank
ANOTHER VIEW: Taking a look at some recent financial matters
FEEDBACK: Readers comment remembering Wally Odum
UPCOMING: Sugar Hill Society hosts new exhibit on moonshining
NOTABLE: County mails 308,000 notices of tax assessment
RECOMMENDED: Marina Variety Store restaurant in Charleston, S.C.
GEORGIA TIDBIT: New Englander produces state’s first geological survey
MYSTERY PHOTO: Two mysteries solved from this Vienna photo
CALENDAR: Lantern Parade will be Friday night in Duluth
ANOTHER VIEW: County feels Mulberry creation is unconstitutional
Senate Bill 138 (SB 138), legislation dictating the transition of services between Gwinnett County and the newly created city of Mulberry, (has) become law. Gwinnett County officials have voiced strong opposition to the bill’s unconstitutional, unprecedented and unworkable mandates that will impose an administrative compliance burden as well as a financial burden on all Gwinnett taxpayers, including those who live in the city of Mulberry.
NEW for 1/28: On craftsmen and no property tax base
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: California needs lots of craftsmen to rebuild housing
EEB PERSPECTIVE: How one city operates without property tax
SPOTLIGHT: Centurion Advisory Group
FEEDBACK: Major debt means USA is headed for big financial problems
UPCOMING: Improvements coming to four county areas
NOTABLE: Georgia Gwinnett enrollment up five percent for spring
RECOMMENDED: That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Famed coach Pop Warner began career at UGA
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can you pinpoint this mountain scene?
CALENDAR: Health Literacy Fair is Jan. 29 in Lawrenceville
Gwinnett Forum | June 6, 2025
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
French Playwright and Diplomat Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 – 1799).
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Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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