By Elliott Brack | Sometimes decisions made years before can benefit you. Here’s how one helped me stay warm on a freezing week in May. The location was Boston, Mass. It was mid-May in the late 1970s. Before leaving Gwinnett, where it was already warm, I wondered about what type of clothing I should take, and besides a sport coat opted for a light jacket.
By Elliott Brack | If more transit options are approved in Gwinnett on March 19, what you will see soon in Gwinnett will be more buses, more routes and more frequency of bus service. All will be a major improvement in public transit in the county.
We talked with Karen Winger, head of the Transit Division of the Gwinnett Department of Transportation, to understand these expanded local bus routes.
By Elliott Brack | Is the Gwinnett Republican Party vital in this county any more? Have they given up?
Since 1984, no matter where you stand, you have to give the Republican Party good grades for helping its candidates win office. In many instances, the Republicans recruited potential candidates and readied them for service. As a result, the party kept seeing their candidates win races. They were ready to serve. Many of those that the party brought along are still serving in political offices of the county today.
By Elliott Brack | Most of us have everyday habits, some good, some bad.
Some of those habits go back to childhood, and can be beneficial to us now.
For instance, back in the late 1930s, when the Rural Electrification Administration was beginning to loan the funds for the wiring of rural America, many of those first homes merely had “lights,” to provide illumination for a single room.
By Elliott Brack | FEB. 22, 2019 — Now, Renee. Don’t run for the Seventh District seat in Congress.
Gwinnett County, Buford, and the state need you in the Georgia Senate, where you will remain much more effective than you would as a freshman representative in the House of Representatives in Washington.
FEB. 12, 2019 | When you think of the higher elements of our American democracy, terms harking back to the Declaration of Independence easily come to mind: “Freedom,” “Liberty” and the “Pursuit of happiness.” With these thoughts extended, you soon remember many positive aspects, such as “The American way,” “Getting the job done,” and our “Can-do attitude.”
By Elliott Brack | Gwinnett County has a new sport for high schools, girls flag football. Each of all 19 high schools of the Gwinnett County Public Schools fielded a seven-woman team last year, with Peachtree Ridge High coming out the county winner in a playoff over Grayson, 20-0. The Gwinnett public schools offer the only girls high school flag football program in the state.
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.”
— Editor-in-chief of the Washington Monthly Charles Peters (1926-2023).
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
Follow Us