By Elliott Brack | We want to yell out to everyone for them to think as we ask: “Hey! What happened to civility?” Have you recognized how we have become so downright mean and uncouth in our relationships to people who don’t agree with us? Will our country ever be able to return to the time when people got along with one another?
By Elliott Brack | So, what’s your take on how we should keep the time? Do you like the idea of “Spring Forward” and then “Fall Back?” How to count the time is controversial. The timing question has strong advocates among us for both sides. Now the U.S. Senate has jumped into this fray. If the Senators had their way, our country would be permanently on what we now call Daylight Saving Time.
By Elliott Brack | Two Georgia Tech graduates are making life better in Gwinnett and in the nation after developing a new way to fight crime. They uncovered a statistic – that seven out of 10 crimes involved a vehicle – and then tweaked a camera to capture the license plate of cars visiting an area, which has greatly reduced the crime rate where the cameras were installed.
By Elliott Brack | Do you, as a reader of GwinnettForum, personally know any of the current Gwinnett or statewide political candidates? If you do, you can help GwinnettForum, and even moreso, you can be of major assistance to the candidate. This time of year, we are spending 30 minutes with as many candidates as we can. That’s to evaluate their candidacy and determine which candidates GwinnettForum will endorse in the primary and general election.
By Elliott Brack | Please understand up front that we know few people who are well-versed about the country of Ukraine. Certainly, we are not in that category. Yet just watching the news reports, and reading the dispatches about the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, certain elements pop out at us:
By Elliott Brack | Don’t you just love it when someone bows out with class and poise? It might happen anywhere, and whoever it is gains new stature because of their grace under dire circumstances. This week we saw one person departing an Atlanta career with distinction. We’re talking about former Atlanta Falcon Quarterback Matt Ryan, who was summarily traded to the Indianapolis Colts after 14 seasons in Atlanta.
By Elliott Brack | Let me invite GwinnettForum readers to join me on a quest that will tell us more about Gwinnett. See if you can come up with what is the oldest business in your city under continuous operations, and try to figure out, too, which is the oldest business in Gwinnett. You see, no governmental agency keeps tabs of businesses that way. We’ll just have to figure it out.
By Elliott Brack | This year is going to be a hot season in Gwinnett politically, as 117 persons are candidates for local office. Wow. So many! Lots of offices have several candidates. Out of all the many seats open, four legislative candidates have no opposition at all, meaning they’ll be back for the 2023 General Assembly without having to pound the pavement for votes.
By Elliott Brack | It was an on-the-ropes bathtub manufacturer, not doing too well. But when the used car salesman, former Lockheed machinist and a guy who enjoyed tinkering took over the Duluth company, things looked up. You see, J.C. Henry had a way of fixing things, and first thing you know, his newly-acquired company, then known as Mr. Tubs, took off.
By Elliott Brack | Gwinnett voters will elect two members of the school board in 2022, and this vote will be in a nonpartisan election. However, we feel the change in the law to require a nonpartisan election is flawed. You see, the people writing the new regulations never considered the best way to have a nonpartisan election. They just went along with the requirements in the only other non-partisan election in Gwinnett, where judges are elected.
“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).
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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