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11/22: New water garden; Nonprofit service; Post-election thoughts
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Distinctive Marble Water Garden To Grace New Braselton Hospital
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering a Friend Who Served a Unique Non-Profit Board Service
ANOTHER VIEW: One Way to View the Change: Seven Post-election Thoughts
SPOTLIGHT: The Piedmont Bank
UPCOMING: Alyssa Davis Will Become Sugarloaf CID’s Initial Director
NOTABLE: Norcross Completes Its Own Mural with Skin Alley Red Foxes
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: Britain’s Bloody Crown
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Mary Hutchinson Attracts Following in New York and Atlanta
TODAY’S QUOTE: Another Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
MYSTERY PHOTO: Nighttime scene from which city?
LAGNIAPPE: Area DAR Chapters Greet State Regent with Tea
CALENDAR: Lilburn Tree Lighting is Tuesday, November 29
HOUSTON: One way to view the change: Seven post-election thoughts
By Debra Houston, contributing columnist | What did we learn from the election?
1. Trump earned the white guy vote. They didn’t organize, demonstrate, or riot, but they voted. The Midwestern guy thought in accord with the Southern one: “I’m tired of being blamed for all the ills of the world.” Unemployment is a big issue for these guys, especially after manufacturing went overseas. Trump addressed their concerns.
BRACK: He’s our nation’s new president; We wish Donald Trump solid success
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | An out of state reader prompted today’s entry when he asked a question about the election.
What really concerns me seriously are the protests and riots by the young. It is obvious that they do not know the mechanics of government, and I suspect this comes from more than a generation not studying the basics of civics.
FOCUS: Had Clinton Won Florida and Wisconsin, she would be president-elect
By Andy Brack, Charleston, S.C. | Wasn’t the presidential election supposed to be rigged?
Had Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who garnered just over 350,000 votes more than the GOP’s Donald Trump out of 120 million cast across the country, won the electoral college, we wouldn’t hear the end of the election being rigged.
WILSON: Trump has no mandate; U.S. remains a divided country
By George Wilson, contributing columnist | Like a former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and the Brexit crowd, Donald Trump tapped into a large number of people who are legitimately upset over the failure of status quo governments to deal with the economic fallout from the loss of jobs to the second and third world countries.
11/11: Improving Gwinnett life; Dems did better; On Hillary
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Three Proposals for Improving the Life in Gwinnett County
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Democrats in Gwinnett Ran Much Stronger Than in Years Before
ANOTHER VIEW: Some Thoughts in Defending Hillary Clinton after the Election
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
FEEDBACK: Two Distinct Reflections Concerning the 2016 Election
UPCOMING: Norcross Merchant Open House To Be This Saturday, November 12
NOTABLE: Suwanee Launches Open Data Budget Website for Transparency
RECOMMENDED: Anna Ruby Falls and the Richard Russell Scenic Highway
GEORGIA TIDBIT: FDR Opposes George’s Re-Election; George Backs FDR on WWII
TODAY’S QUOTE: Deep Thinking from the Mind of Yogi Berra
MYSTERY PHOTO: No Drought Going on Where This Mystery Photograph Was Made
CALENDAR: Author Mary Alice Monroe will appear November 19 in Peachtree Corners
BRACK: Democrats in Gwinnett ran much stronger than in years before
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | The United States is a great nation. It is resilient, and can survive Donald Trump. Be pleased and calmed knowing that.
The nation’s best period of government, it appears to us, is when Congress doesn’t necessarily rubber stamp everything the president sends forth. (The very best time we feel is when one House of Congress is of a different party than the president.) We suspect it won’t be long before the legislators find that they’ll need to limit the reach of the presidency. That would also have happened had another person been chosen to lead our country.
10/18: On SPLOST projects and something good out of presidential campaign
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Committee Spells Out Project Categories for 2016 SPLOST Vote
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Finally, Something Good Comes Out of the Presidential Campaign
ANOTHER VIEW: Defends Trump By Saying Women Talk Dirty, Too
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Electric Membership Corporation
FEEDBACK: Understands Trump Appeal; But Clinton Is Far Better Qualified
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Commission OKs Agreement To Buy Former Olympic Site
NOTABLE: Fitch Ratings Affirms Gwinnett County’s AAA Credit Rating
NOT RECOMMENDED: Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Building Techwood Homes Was Model, and Led to Housing Act of 1936
TODAY’S QUOTE: Something That Most of Us Use Too Little These Days
MYSTERY PHOTO: You’ll Have To Be Really Good To Spot This Mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Electronic Recycling To Benefit Friends of Disabled Adults and Children
CALENDAR: Cooking School Coming Soon at Infinite Energy Center
BRACK: Finally, something good comes out of the presidential campaign
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | It’s taken a while, but finally we see something good coming out of this worrisome, obnoxious and uncouth presidential campaign of 2016. And it’s something we could never have predicted.
It came as a result of one of Donald Trump’s many volcanic eruptions. This time it wasn’t some crude remark from the present-day, but a recording of his views of women in 2005 as revealed in a conversation with Billy Bush. You know the details.
Gwinnett Forum | May 17, 2024
“As long as you’re working, you stay young. When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
– American Actor and Comedian George Burns (1896-1996).
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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