By Elliott Brack | Today is election day in Georgia, as our state has its in-person voting open today until 7 p.m. in the Georgia primary for 2024. We’ll be voting primarily for local offices in Democratic and Republican primaries. Non-partisan candidates for local and statewide judgeships and the Gwinnett School Board will be elected today.
By Elliott Brack | Some thoughts today that might help you when voting in the May 21 General Primary in Georgia, if you haven’t already early-voted. You may be overwhelmed if you look at the Gwinnett sample ballots, which you can access to the right of this column. There are so many names on the sample ballot, and the ballot is long.
By Elliott Brack | There’s interest in the Kentucky Derby for at least one family in Gwinnett. Keith Mason, the son of Ann and Wayne Mason of Snellville, is the co-managing partner of a syndicate which will have two horses running in the Derby on Saturday. Mason and Larry Connolly of Atlanta are co-founders of the West Paces Racing partnership group.
By Elliott Brack | In 2020, voters of Gwinnett elected a new district attorney, as Republican Danny Porter was defeated by a newcomer, Patsy Austin-Gatson, in a year when most Democrats won in the county. Mr. Porter had been the district attorney for 28 years, and had served with distinction, efficiently prosecuting criminals in Superior Court.
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.”
—American columnist and humorist Erma Bombeck (1927-1996).
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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