Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series designed to draw attention to legislation that will level the playing field for local media outlets.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our state and our county hard. As your local newspaper, it is our duty to provide coverage of this pandemic along with the rest of our local news gathering.
There is no question we have in this richest country in the world the wherewithal and the means to generate the funds that are needed to make those investments. The question is do we have the will?
Gwinnett County Public Schools held its inaugural girls camp for the mentorship program July 16-20, a Shiloh Middle School teacher attended a national education conference in Washington, D.C. and Central Gwinnett cluster is hosting a Back to School Jamboree.
This is the ninth year the Daily Post has gone pink during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to help make this point — early detection and routine check-ups are key.
As is almost always the case, signs of trouble preceded the latest shooting in Paris, which left one police officer dead and wounded two bystanders before police killed the gunman, later identified as French national Karim Cheurfi, a known criminal with a long, violent record. ISIS claimed to be behind the attack. According to police, a note praising ISIS fell out of Cheurfi’s pocket when he fell.
Tis the season, you know. Yes, yes. I know all about peace on earth and good will to men, although we have changed the scriptures around to suit ourselves, not to mention the political correctness police and you might hear your preacher read “peace to all whom love of God has blessed” but in the King James Version I grew up reading, it really does say “Good will to men.” Deal with it.
Printing a Pink Paper has become a Daily Post tradition, one that now numbers eight years. The goal? To promote the need for early detection and routine check-ups as a way to lead the fight against breast cancer.
With another school year beginning, more than 1,900 buses will be on the road transporting students to Gwinnett schools. The district — the third-largest transporter of students — will log more than 132,000 miles per day and will make more than 50,000 stops on a daily basis.
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