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Will you fly Wings out of Lawrenceville?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Don’t want to drive to the airport? Soon enough, you’ll be able to fly there instead.
A Lawrenceville air charter service plans to begin offering 15-minute flights from Briscoe Field to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport early next year.
Wings Air even plans to get passengers past those lagging security lines at the main gates by putting them through private screening by Transportation Security Administration contractors at the airport’s general aviation facility, Wings Air CEO Charlie Mintz said.
Maximum line length there: eight people, the top number of passengers each Wings Air flight will carry.
Will you fly Wings out of Lawrenceville?
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Should alcohol be prohibited in some Lawrenceville pool halls?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In Lawrenceville, you’ll be able to have a drink but not in a pool hall. Not if the city council approves a proposal that would require businesses with more than two pool tables to stop serving alcohol. The council debated the proposal Monday (Sept. 10) but made no final decision. It’s not the first time this issue has surfaced. Share your opinion. Should alcohol be prohibited in some Lawrenceville pool halls?
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Should teen have been jailed for refusing tuberculosis treatment?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By A 17-year-old Gwinnett County resident diagnosed with tuberculosis has started taking medicine for the disease, but he remains in a medical isolation cell in the Gwinnett jail, Sheriff Butch Conway said.
Gwinnett health officials jailed Francisco Santos Friday after he refused to accept treatment for an active, contagious case of tuberculosis. Santos said he was leaving the country to return to his native Mexico, health officials said.
“I think he was scared,” said David Will, attorney for the Gwinnett County Board of Health.
Officials were aware of the recent incident involving Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker, who also has tuberculosis. After Speaker left for his wedding in Greece, a national news conference set off an international health scare.
In this case, the Gwinnett officials acted decisively: they put Santos in jail Friday evening, in a rare act of a government agency confining a sick person. Santos is in a special medical isolation cell designed for inmates with contagious conditions. The cell, which measures about 15 feet by 20 feet, has a special ventilation system that keeps the air from reaching other inmates.
Did officials do the right thing?
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Should metro Atlanta’s second airport be in Lawrenceville?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is already the world’s busiest, serving 85 million passengers last year and expected to serve double that number by 2025. That phenomenal growth raises the specter of the Atlanta region running short on airport capacity sometime in the next decade.
Anticipating that crunch, the U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded a million-dollar grant to the city of Atlanta, the owner and operator of Hartsfield, to study the possibility of a second airport in the region. But where would that new airport go?
South of Hartsfield-Jackson, open land is still relatively cheap and plentiful. The lower population density in the region’s southern crescent also means that fewer homes and businesses would be adversely affected by a new airport.
On the other hand, an airport in the more heavily populated northern suburbs and exurbs would be closer to its customer base —- the majority of Georgia residents who use Hartsfield today live north of I-20, But it would also be more expensive and more difficult politically. Just ask proponents of the Northern Arc, including former Gov. Roy Barnes. His support for the controversial highway through the northern exurbs contributed a lot to his failed re-election bid.
Smaller existing airports, including those in Gainesville, Lawrenceville, Macon, Columbus and Savannah, also might be possible alternatives.
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Why is Georgia Gwinnett College desperately seeking students?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Lawrenceville’s Georgia Gwinnett College opens its doors to freshmen on its 205-acre campus off Ga. 316 in August.
More than 3,000 were expected, but so far it has only admitted 435 students. With 81 faculty already in place, that works out to about five students to every professor.
Attracting students to a new, unknown college has proved somewhat tricky. College representatives hit dozens of college fairs and visited every Gwinnett high school to drum up interest. They set up shop in the Mall of Georgia next to the food court and bought advertising at movie theaters.
Georgia Gwinnett is not yet accredited, meaning it can’t offer students federal financial aid. School officials submitted a 1,700-page accreditation application to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in March, and had hoped to earn candidacy status, which would allow students to get grants and loans, at the accrediting body’s December meeting. The regional group, which accredits colleges in 11 Southern states, meets twice a year.
Why do you think the college hasn’t had more students enroll?
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