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NEW for 9/8: On choices, candidates and economic disaster
Click here to read the latest edition. In this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Choices, choices, choices …violence or non-violence?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Study this list of 21 Candidates for Senate to pick your preference
ANOTHER VIEW: Trump and the Republican Senate make economic disaster for USA
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Gwinnett
FEEDBACK: Help George Puicar become write-in candidate for school board
UPCOMING: Census nearing deadline; afterward census workers will knock on doors
NOTABLE: Local artist adds colorful art to manhole covers on two Norcross trails
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Oglethorpe repels the Spanish on the south at battle of Bloody Marsh
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lovely area seems like good place to visit
CALENDAR: Remembrance Program about 9/11 is Friday in Peachtree Corners
BRACK: Study this list of 21 Senate candidates to pick your preference
By Elliott Brack | There are 21 Georgians competing independently for the Senate seat vacated by former Senator Johnny Isakson to fill the two years left on his term. The seat is presently held by Kelly Loeffler, appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp. The 21 candidates will all run in a Special Election, which people are calling a “jungle election,” since anyone can run who qualified without being nominated by a party.
NEW for 9/4: On Rowen, Senate race, GOP
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Rowen project to be a knowledge community, distinctive for Gwinnett
EEB PERSPECTIVE:Athens professor has forward thinking ideas in Senate race
ANOTHER VIEW: Is Marjorie Greene the future of the GOP in Georgia?
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Sees calming and encouraging leadership as the way out of our fears
UPCOMING: County to purchase Lawrenceville water distribution system
NOTABLE: 2020 Northside Hospital Gwinnett Pink 5k to be held virtually
RECOMMENDED: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Oglethorpe places forts strategically along Inland Passage
MYSTERY PHOTO: Agricultural past of the area illustrated by Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Peaceful setting for relaxing and thinking about what’s ahead
BRACK: Athens professor has forward thinking ideas in Senate race
By Elliott Brack | The 2020 election will be unusual, in that Georgians will vote for two U.S. Senators in November. Incumbent David Perdue is running for another six year term, opposed by Democrat John Ossoff. In a distinctive second U.S. Senate race this year, there will be 21 people battling in a “jungle election” to see who will fill the remaining two years of Sen. Johnny Isakson’s term. That means that the winner will probably immediately be running for a full six year term in 2022.
6/25: On scams, Senate “grandees” and women’s health care
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TODAY’S FOCUS: The Elderly Are More Likely To Be Scammed, So Watch Out!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering Who Runs the U.S. Senate: The “Grandees”
ANOTHER VIEW: Keep Women’s Health Care Out of Politics, or Suffer Consequences
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: When Needs To Re-read a Paragraph, Blames Really Poor Editing
UPCOMING: Activities Begin at 5 p.m. on July 3 for Norcross Red White and Boom!
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners Dedicates Veterans’ Monument at Town Center
RECOMMENDED: Dis Member and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense By Joyce Carol Oates
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Brumby’s Neighbor Newspaper Group Once Had 500,000 Circulation
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately Columned Southern House Is This Edition’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Lawrenceville Campground Meeting Now in its 187th Year of Services
CALENDAR: Discovery Gardens Neighbors’ Night Out is Thursday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.
6/11: On Brexit; Rural broadband; “Borrow and spend” government
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Matters Still Complicated and Up in the Air Concerning Brexit
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Rural Broadband Shows Another Way That There Are Two Georgias
ANOTHER VIEW: Today with Trump and Senate Is a “Borrow and Spend” Government
SPOTLIGHT: Hayes Family Automotive Group
FEEDBACK: Recalls That His Father Had Signed for Deuce-and-a-Half Truck
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners To Dedicate Veteran’s Memorial on June 15
NOTABLE: Peachtree Ridge Graduate Wins Perdue Appointment to West Point
RECOMMENDED: The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Thomas Hardwick as Governor Introduces First Sales Tax on Gasoline
MYSTERY PHOTO: Two Bridges May Provide the Clues for this Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Central Gwinnett Students Design, Built Architect Temporary Facade
CALENDAR: Fishing Derby at OneStop Centerville on June 15
Gwinnett Forum | May 21, 2024
“What I remember most of those times (the Depression) is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.”
– American Author and Broadcaster Studs Terkel (1912 – 2008.)
Recent deaths
2024 PRIMARY CANDIDATES
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
- Click here to read about Gwinnett candidates endorsed by GwinnettForum.
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- 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.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
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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