Articles by: Elliott Brack
BRACK: New Fact Book, everyday items and Twain’s favorite work
By Elliott Brack | GwinnettForum has released for sale the second edition of its small book, 366 Facts about Gwinnett County, Ga. It is an updated version of the book released in 2018 for the Gwinnett Bicentennial. It is also “Improved.”
You may remember that former County Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash asked GwinnettForum to produce a list of distinctive facts about this fast-growing county, to celebrate its Bicentennial in 2018. She wanted to put one fact a day about the county on the county website.
BRACK: Trump is the poster child of trying to delay justice
By Elliott Brack | It was four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809-1898) who is credited with the phrase, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” In the modern day, that phrase was brought back to popularity by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, smuggled out of prison in 1963.
BRACK: New Jersey residents must stand in awe of Georgia taxpayers
By Elliott Brack | Those of you who don’t like to pay high property taxes ought to be pleased you don’t live in New Jersey. That state has the distinction of having the highest property tax in the nation. Residents of that state pay property tax at a rate of 2.13 percent. Property tax owners in Georgia pay at a rate of 0.87 percent, right in the middle (25th) of all the states.
BRACK: Help the shooting problem: Close the bars an hour earlier
By Elliott Brack | People around Atlanta, and really our whole country, are perplexed about what communities can do to prevent more deaths in shootings. Shootings take place hither and yon all around our country. We have seen the shootings of downtown Atlanta expand to the suburbs, including Gwinnett County.
Gwinnett Forum | Jan. 10, 2025
“Nothing makes us feel more connected than when we are engaged in a healthy balance of thoughtful speaking and hardcore listening.”
— Belgian-American psychotherapist and relationship expert Eshter Perel (1958- ) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
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Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
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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