By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | In a constitutional republic where new legislation is constantly being pushed by many elements, all citizens must be vigilant.
For every time you gain a victory, that doesn’t mean that the victory will last. You may have to go all-out to insure that the victory remains in place, since there are usually major opponents to almost every bit of legislation.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | There’s a new mug shot looking out at you today. And there’s a story behind that.
It goes back years ago to my days publishing a weekly newspaper in South Georgia. During the political season, many of the candidates would come in for the editor to help them in writing their “political announcement,” which would be a paid advertisement for the candidate in the newspaper up until the election.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher, Macon, Ga. | We ventured “back home” to Macon Thursday at Wesleyan College to be present for three prominent Georgia women, all now deceased, who were inducted in the Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame.
One who was a particular friend is Carolyn MacKenzie Carter of Moultrie, the first female photographer for The Atlanta Constitution. The other two are Clermont Huger Lee, one of Georgia’s first female landscape architects; and Lucile Nix, the first library head for the state of Georgia who led significant library expansion across the state.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | For those of us who are baseball purists, and for most everyone enjoying baseball these days, there is growing discomfort with the length of baseball games.
As baseball begins, it’s spring training, we thought we might consider some suggestions for improving the game. Most of these comments came from a long story in the New York Times recently, as they had suggestions from people all over the country about improving the game.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Here we are just into March, and we get an announcement about the Snellville Farmers Market’s upcoming season. Snellville is now accepting applications from vendors and scheduling entertainment for its upcoming eighth season. Wow! Eight years. Seems only yesterday.
The Snellville market will be each Saturday, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., June 3 through Sept. 30. The market is located on the Towne Green at the intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and Oak Road. Also: The Wall That Heals, more.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Every now and then, in the course of routine matters, an event takes place that makes you catch your breath. That happened to me about 1970, when Georgia Power Company was building its nuclear Plant Hatch near Baxley.
The reactor vessel for the plant was built in Chattanooga, Tenn., then shipped by barge down the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, across Florida, and eventually up the Altamaha River to Baxley.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | It was a terrific blow to the Gwinnett economy recently when WestRock Company announced that it was moving its company home office from its Thrasher Street location in Norcross to Sandy Springs. With this announcement some 800 jobs will be lost to Gwinnett County.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Four different religions will be the focus of four Lenten programs at Christ Episcopal Church in Norcross during Wednesdays in March. People of all faiths are invited for the weekly programs, which will begin at 6 p.m. with soup and salad in the church parish hall, followed by the one-hour presentation and discussion.
Previous popular Lenten series have focused on military, medical and judicial ethics.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Gwinnett and all of Atlanta on Saturday will have a new way to buy high quality used books — by the pound!
The book store’s name is “Books by the Pound,” a new concept opening Saturday in Lawrenceville at 860 Georgia Highway 120, across from Fairview Presbyterian Church, near the intersection of Georgia Highway 316. The new retail idea will also sell used video games, music CDs and boxed sets of television shows….all at tremendous discounts.
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Finally, and maybe for the first time, someone has said “No” to Donald Trump.
About the only other time he may have heard the words “No” was from his two previous wives, who finally divorced him. For sure, it seems that he has never heard the words from his parents, who must have given him his every wish. For sure they staked him with vast sums to start his fiefdom.
“Nothing makes us feel more connected than when we are engaged in a healthy balance of thoughtful speaking and hardcore listening.”
– Belgian-American psychotherapist and relationship expert Ester Perel (1958- ) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
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