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MYSTERY PHOTO: Check the handsome, classical design of today’s mystery

MYSTERY PHOTO: Check the handsome, classical design of today’s mystery

Here’s a handsome photo of a classical design. Many of our readers may have seen it. Can you figure out what it is, and where it is located? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to tell us the hometown where you live.

From the last edition and its mystery, Cathy Loew, Peachtree Corners, wrote:  “Another deja vu moment!  I’ve attended a wedding there too!” She identified the chapel at Simpsonwood Park in Peachtree Corners.

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by · January 27, 2023 · Mystery photos
NEW for 1/24: On blessings, Fair Tax and more

NEW for 1/24: On blessings, Fair Tax and more

Click here to read the latest edition. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Three times blessed, and recalling 1876 presidential election
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Fair Tax again introduced in Congress; E-mail from John Linder 
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering bobby socks, short skirts and tennis shoes
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Partnership between Peachtree Corners and Fusus bolsters safety
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners launches non-profit rescue plan grant program
RECOMMENDED: Hi Pot on Buford Highway in Doraville.  
GEORGIA TIDBIT: William Parkins significant architect of many Atlanta buildings
MYSTERY PHOTO: More sunshine would brighten up this building. Where is it?
LAGNIAPPE:  Youth cartoonists wanted
CALENDAR: Paxton visits at  Norcross Cultural Arts Center on Jan. 26 

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by · January 24, 2023 · Full issues
BRACK: Fair Tax again introduced in Congress; E-mail from John Linder

BRACK: Fair Tax again introduced in Congress; E-mail from John Linder

JAN. 24, 2023  |  Remember all the talk a few years back about the national “Fair Tax?” Now with California Republican Kevin McCarthy in his bare-majority House Speaker role, guess what has returned?  Yep, the Fair Tax.

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by · January 24, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Three times blessed, and recalling 1876 presidential election

FOCUS: Three times blessed, and recalling 1876 presidential election

By Ashley Herndon  |  I just have to share some good fortune, having been blessed twice in 1964 and again in 1967-68. I was surprised to be introduced to and met a gentleman of grace and  power.

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by · January 24, 2023 · Today's Focus
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering bobby socks, short skirts and tennis shoes

ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering bobby socks, short skirts and tennis shoes

By David Simmons  |  Years ago, after coming off the Appalachian Trail (AT) in late summer 1988, I ended up in Washington D.C., living on the top floor of a nine-story apartment building just across the street from the Department of Transportation.  I could sit out on my balcony and see the Washington Monument and the reflecting pool, and listen to the nightly gunshots coming from off in the distance in northeast D.C.  

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by · January 24, 2023 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: Partnership between Peachtree Corners, Fusus bolsters safety

NEWS BRIEFS: Partnership between Peachtree Corners, Fusus bolsters safety

The City of Peachtree Corners has partnered with Fusus, an organization located within their rapidly growing high-tech hub, to provide enhanced public safety services to local businesses and residents. Fusus is a nationally recognized public safety technology provider that has operated out of its headquarters in Peachtree Corners since 2019.  

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by · January 24, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: More sunshine would brighten up this building. Where is it?

MYSTERY PHOTO: More sunshine would brighten up this building. Where is it?

Lots of shade from trees kept sunshine from brightening up this facility, but where is this Mystery Photo?  Send your answer to Elliott@brack.net and include your hometown. 

First in with the correct answer to the recent Mystery Photo was Lynn Naylor, Norcross: “Built in 1936, the ‘Chapel on the Rock,’ officially known as St. Catherine of Siena Chapel, is one of the most important landmarks of Colorado.

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by · January 24, 2023 · Mystery photos
NEW for 1/20: On better decisions, Ukraine

NEW for 1/20: On better decisions, Ukraine

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: More logic, better decisions, need from our governments
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Conditions in no-war zones in Ukraine continue to be terrible
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas 
FEEDBACK: Conspiracy theories are around us; help combat these ideas
UPCOMING: Duluth marketing agency wins contract for restaurant chain
NOTABLE: Berkmar teacher wins DAR chapter top American history award
OBITUARIES: Dale Eugene Thurman
RECOMMENDED: The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Small town of Ludowici named for tile factory once there
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check out this beautiful photo from the mountains area
CALENDAR: Writer’s Workshop at Norcross Branch Library on January 21

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by · January 20, 2023 · Full issues
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BRACK: Conditions in no-war zones in Ukraine continue to be terrible

By Elliott Brack  |  The reports we see about the war in Ukraine come to us in the warmth and safety of our home, through television, and through our social media platforms. It’s hard to imagine how terrible conditions are there.

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by · January 20, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: More logic, better decisions, need from our governments

FOCUS: More logic, better decisions, need from our governments

By Jack Bernard  |  When I was a Georgia county commissioner, I was chair of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia’s tax committee. As chairman of a BOC, using cost/benefit analysis, I also got my board to lower annual local tax increases from 10 percent annually to 1 percent. When I got off the BOC, taxes went right back up. 

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by · January 20, 2023 · Today's Focus
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