Articles by: Elliott Brack

BRACK: Get out of the fast lane and enjoy Georgia’s back roads

BRACK: Get out of the fast lane and enjoy Georgia’s back roads

By Elliott Brack | There’s something about the back roads of Georgia that tugs at me. 

Returning from Moultrie in deep Southwest Georgia last week, we stayed off busy and always frantic Interstate 75 and enjoyed a four-lane road without much traffic most of the way. We took U.S. 19 north of Albany for about 3.5 hours until we reached Hampton and the beginning of many traffic lights. At Hampton, we cut over nine miles to I-75 at McDonough for the rest of the trip home.

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by · August 23, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Words from several, and what’s happening at Gwinnett Place Mall

BRACK: Words from several, and what’s happening at Gwinnett Place Mall

By Elliott Brack | Some bits and pieces: Cities around Gwinnett are stirring with political intrigue this week, as it’s time to qualify if you want to seek municipal office in Gwinnett.  Most cities close their qualifying Wednesday, though Berkeley Lake closes on Thursday and Auburn and Norcross on Friday. 

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by · August 20, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Gwinnett’s governments provide us with many wonderful amenities

BRACK: Gwinnett’s governments provide us with many wonderful amenities

By Elliott Brack  | A local resident had just returned from visiting with friends in California.

They had been in a town that was established in the 1850 era. Today, its population is 200,000. However, she was appalled at the lack of amenities in that town that we in Gwinnett take for granted.

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by · August 16, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: GGC president focuses on students, seeking campus filled with joy

BRACK: GGC president focuses on students, seeking campus filled with joy

By Elliott Brack   | Georgia Gwinnett College’s (GGC) third president, Dr. Jann Joseph, is dynamic and not bashful in her support of students, their achievement, and in particularly wanting her students to be even more successful over time. She came to GGC on July 1, after serving as executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, and then as interim chancellor of Indiana University  – South Bend.

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by · August 13, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Gov. Brian Kemp, President Jay Feldstein cut ribbon on Moultrie campus

BRACK: City of Moultrie dedicates new medical campus for south Georgia

By Elliott Brack  | This South Georgia community got something no other city in Southwest Georgia has on Tuesday — a medical school. The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), which has had a campus in Suwanee since 2005, opened a South Georgia campus on Tuesday. Classes will begin for 59 freshmen students on Monday. 

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by · August 9, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: We put another nickel in the ways we now constantly hear music

BRACK: We put another nickel in the ways we now constantly hear music

By Elliott Brack  | It’s amazing to me how much many of us spend on recorded music. From listening to individual tunes, to buying instruments to play these songs, to providing a few cents to the individual composers, not just Americans, but people all over the world shell out a lot of money for music.

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by · August 6, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Route of Phase 3 of Sugarloaf Parkway Extension may surprise some

By Elliott Brack  | Some day, years from now, a few homeowners in Gwinnett are going to be surprised to find a four-lane highway mighty close to the homes that they occupy in 2019.  The roadway will be the extension of Sugarloaf Parkway, which planners have already put in motion.

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by · August 2, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Bet on a political race? Would have better chance on a horse race

BRACK: Bet on a political race? Would have better chance on a horse race

By Elliott Brack   | Horse races I’ll bet on.  But an election? Never.

After all, in horse races, there are certain probabilities. You know the horse’s record and its ancestry, the jockey, trainer and owner’s record, and even track conditions. You also know lots about the horse’s opponents.

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by · July 25, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Norman Rockwell’s depiction of "Freedom from Fear."

BRACK: Freedom from fear is one of our basic rights in the USA

By Elliott Braci  | It was the way that President Trump went about trying to deport people that bugged me.  He made several announcements and pronouncements well in advance that on a certain Sunday there would be raids to “send ‘em back” to their home country.

This caused great fear among people, many of them working steadily for their citizenship, fearful that they somehow would be caught up in this rush to judgment, and be deported.

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by · July 22, 2019 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Small bit of history made on Beaver Ruin Road Tuesday afternoon

BRACK: Small bit of history made on Beaver Ruin Road Tuesday afternoon

By Elliott Brack | There was excitement in the air Tuesday afternoon, as a small group gathered mostly under a shade tree in front of the Norcross First United Methodist Church, though there were chairs empty in the sun. They might not have been there for the dedication of a new crosswalk on busy Beaver Ruin Road if it hadn’t been for a chance conversation between a mother and an employee of the Gateway85 Community Improvement District.

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