Articles by: Elliott Brack

BRACK: Action needed in several areas to improve Gwinnett

BRACK: Action needed in several areas to improve Gwinnett

By Elliott Brack  | The start of a new year is a good time to review what progress has been made in the past year for GwinnettForum’s List of Continuing Objectives. Unfortunately, there has been virtually no progress on this list during the last year.  

During December, GwinnettForum emphasized the need for Gwinnett legislators to move quickly once the General Assembly convenes to increase the salary for the chairman of the Gwinnett County Commission. This is our most pressing need at this time.

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by · January 3, 2020 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Help Gwinnett be more informed: Tell others about GwinnettForum

BRACK: Help Gwinnett be more informed: Tell others about GwinnettForum

By Elliott Brack  | It’s amazing what the Internet has given us, if nothing more than the ability to produce GwinnettForum twice a week. Yet at the same time, the Internet has caused changes that have dramatically taken away many of our society’s most cherished institutions.

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by · December 31, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Two aloof artists create one of the finest Christmas carols

BRACK: Two aloof artists create one of the finest Christmas carols

By Elliott Brack  | One of the beauties of the holiday season is to hear Christmas carols (and sing-along occasionally). They can lift your heart (Joy! To the World and Hark! the Herald Angels Sing), or cause you to pause (Silent Night or O Little Town of Bethlehem).

Then there’s a song usually sung during the season that is unlike most, in that it has a non-traditional cadence, and is one of our favorites for that reason.

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by · December 20, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Gwinnett County Commissioners, l-r: Jace Brooks, District 1; Ben Ku, District 2; Charlotte J. Nash, chairman; Tommy Hunter, District 3; and Marlene Fosque, District 4.

BRACK: Delegation: Bring commission chairman’s salary up-to-date

By Elliott Brack  | There is one key subject the Gwinnett delegation to the General Assembly should address come January 1.  They need to agree on a significant upgrade of pay for the chairman of the Gwinnett County Commission.
The current salary of the chairman, Charlotte Nash, is $58,342. That salary should have been changed ages ago. It is inadequate for a person who heads a government with 5,000 employees.

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by · December 12, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Visiting Greenville’s Museum of Art was an easy one-day trip

BRACK: Visiting Greenville’s Museum of Art was an easy one-day trip

By Elliott Brack | It was a good one-day trip from Gwinnett. Hearing over and over about how exciting Greenville, S.C., and its downtown area had become, we decided to make a one day exploratory visit, to get a glimpse, and to plan for a longer return trip later on. 

We focused on visiting the Greenville County Museum of Art.  So it was two hours (almost exactly) up Interstate 85, two hours at the museum (that was enough, since it’s small), an hour for lunch and drive-through of the Furman University campus, then two hours to return home, all on a crisp and sunshiny day.

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by · December 10, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Revel paused; $220 millions of work still around civic center

BRACK: Revel paused; $220 millions of work still around civic center

By Elliott Brack  | Gwinnett County got an unexpected kick in the teeth this week, when North American Properties reneged on its partnership agreement to build the $900 million “Revel” project at the Infinite Energy Center.

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by · December 6, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Auburn-Alabama game was thriller, best of 2019 season

BRACK: Auburn-Alabama game was thriller, best of 2019 season

By Elliott Brack  | The Auburn-Alabama football game on Saturday was the best and most exciting game we’ve watched on television this year. And for the second time in three years, Auburn upset Alabama on a missed field goal, this time 48-45.

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by · December 3, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Major Georgia railroad history penned by Loganville’s Hanson

By Elliott Brack | In the mail recently I got a new book by a local author. The author is Robert (Bob) Hanson of Loganville.  His new book is a handsome 8.5×11 inches, 156 page “The Railroads of Georgia, 1833-2000.”  It’s from Garbely Publishing of Branchville, New Jersey.  You can order it from the publisher at $40. 

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by · November 26, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Some thinkers are getting concerned about a right to privacy

BRACK: Some thinkers are getting concerned about a right to privacy

By Elliott Brack  | Times were far different in the age of the Founding Fathers.  They thought long and hard, and recognized that mankind wanted certain guarantees from government. What they came up with was to recognize “certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  

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by · November 22, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Time to eat crow,  apologize for error on Loganville election

BRACK: Time to eat crow,  apologize for error on Loganville election

By Elliott Brack  | Every so often in the news business, you find it’s time to eat crow. Today is such a day for me.

Last Friday we fouled on reporting the results of the Loganville election.  Going to the Internet, we posted the results of the 2017 election, thinking we had the 2019 election. We simply did not read the small print correctly, and gave the wrong information. 

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by · November 19, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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