Articles by: Elliott Brack
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gwinnett Forum | April 4, 2025
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
— American novelist, satirist, and poet Erica Jong (1942 – ).
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
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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