Articles by: Elliott Brack
BRACK: Wheels of justice eventually move, but usually ever so slow
By Elliott Brack | The wheels of progress sometimes turn mighty slowly. Yet every now and then, the wheel moves a little so that when changes arrive, it sometimes surprises us. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling to regulate climate change. That thwarted the Biden Administration. But help was soon to be on the way.
BRACK: Biggest marketing agency in Gwinnett calls Duluth home
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG.t 23, 2022 | The largest marketing agency in Gwinnett was once a Birmingham, Ala., company which bought a local business and made the Gwinnett office its headquarters. The Luckie agency was established in Gwinnett in 2011 and now employs 130 people, with 70 of them based at their 20,000 square foot entire second floor offices across from the City Hall in Duluth. The agency is among the 10th largest in Metro Atlanta.
BRACK: Commission should eliminate use of plastic packing, straws
By Elliott Brack | Individual Gwinnettians can make little progress in improving the world. But the nearly one million of us in Gwinnett, working collectively, can make a dent into one problem this world faces. Many other community governments are adopting rules for their residents to help mankind. One particular problem that mankind now faces involves the public’s use of plastics, which when discarded, are threatening our environments, particularly the ocean waters.
BRACK: County schools starting with record 182,865 enrollment
By Elliott Brack | With school starting this week, Gwinnett County Public Schools are expecting 182,865 students to enroll, the most ever. The county schools employ 22,731 people, and is the largest employer in Gwinnett, and fourth largest in Metro Atlanta. The school district is now the 11th largest district in the entire country.
BRACK: New national suicide prevention phone line is 988
By Elliott Brack | Here’s something that might be mighty important to some Gwinnettian. You can now access the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline with a three digit telephone code, 988, providing quicker and easier access. The old number was 800-273-8255. To me, this really seems to be a major, and mighty important, change.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 26, 2024
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.”
— Editor-in-chief of the Washington Monthly Charles Peters (1926-2023).
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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