Articles by: Elliott Brack

First leg of Gwinnett Torch Runs leaves Historic Courthouse

BRACK: Gwinnett’s Bicentennial gets lots of people involved; Ends Saturday

By Elliott Brack | Gwinnett’s Bicentennial year will be over Saturday. It’s been a time of celebration with much more happening around this theme than was anticipated.

Saturday will feature the last two big planned events.  Starting at 10 a.m., and continuing until 2 p.m. at the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth will the 200th birthday celebration.

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by · December 14, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Early Democratic euphoria evaporates looking at runoff results

BRACK: Early Democratic euphoria evaporates looking at runoff results

By Elliott Brack | DEC. 11, 2018  |  Georgia Democrats may be encouraged by their 2018 election showing, but they should not be so upbeat about any long term prospect at winning control over the state soon.

All it takes is a look at the results in the two runoff elections.

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by · December 11, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: 41st President George H.W. Bush led a distinguished and storied life

BRACK: 41st President George H.W. Bush led a distinguished and storied life

By Elliott Brack  |  It was a memorable day for Gwinnett County, October 20, 1992. The president of the United States made a special train stop in Norcross. Not only do I remember it well, but I was there. I found my story of that visit in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the Internet.

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by · December 7, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
McBath

BRACK: McBath will do well; Return of quotes and Snellville relatives

By Elliott Brack | DEC. 4, 2018  |  Hurrah for Lucy McBath of Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District! We predict she’ll do well in the Congress.

Being a new Congressperson cannot be easy. After all, there’s a tremendous amount of difference between being a candidate for Congress, and then of about dealing with constituents from afar, about living in Washington, and maneuvering around all this morass.

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by · December 4, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Susan McBrayer marks her 100th recommendation in this issue

BRACK: Susan McBrayer marks her 100th recommendation in this issue

By Elliott Brack | NOV. 30, 2018  |  Past GwinnettForum readers are familiar with Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill. She has diligently contributed ideas to this site for years, and has been long known as a prolific reader.

We bring this up today as Susan in this issue contributes her 100th recommendation, more submissions than any other reader. Here’s how it came about.

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by · November 30, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Auburn's Little Free Library

BRACK: The Amazon location, Georgia football and Little Free Libraries

By Elliott Brack  |  Hope your Thanksgiving was a good one!  Today let’s throw out a few random thoughts of the last few days.

SOMETIMES WHAT YOU DON’T HEAR is an important as what you might have heard.

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by · November 27, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Congress is sole judge of who should be seated in both houses

BRACK: Congress is sole judge of who should be seated in both houses

By Elliott Brack | The hullabaloo over voter fraud all across the country, we suspect, is much ado about not much. Yet here in Georgia, we’ve heard of some who say they were, in one way or another, blocked from voting. Most election officials are upright citizens, and wouldn’t stand for it if they suspected fraud.

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by · November 20, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: This and that and all around, but not much politics for today

BRACK: This and that and all around, but not much politics for today

By Elliott Brack | NOV. 13, 2018  |  Leaving politics alone, today we’ll catch up with some notes we’ve put aside in the last few days.

WHAT A GOOD IDEA!  We refer to the Braselton Trolley, which began operations last week. With the development of what is now the Town of Braselton basically developing along one axis, Georgia Highway 53, the trolley serves to help bring the community together.

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by · November 13, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Oh, the times have changed quite quickly in politics in Gwinnett

BRACK: Oh, the times have changed quite quickly in politics in Gwinnett

NOV. 9, 2018  |  Let’s take a look at the 2018 elections.

In many ways, in the still-to-be-called races, matters are going like they should.

While there still votes to be counted, those leading in races say what they should: they claim victory.  Meanwhile, the candidates who are trailing maintain that the race isn’t quite over yet, so they’re not conceding.

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by · November 9, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Here’s a summary of GwinnettForum’s view on Tuesday’s big election

BRACK: Here’s a summary of GwinnettForum’s view on Tuesday’s big election

NOV. 2, 2018  | With so many candidates on the ballot this year, and the General Election upcoming on Tuesday, November 6, GwinnettForum again reprints its list of candidates it feels will be best to be elected in 2018.

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by · November 2, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective