Elliott Brack’s Perspective

BRACK: New Fact Book, everyday items and Twain’s favorite work

BRACK: New Fact Book, everyday items and Twain’s favorite work

By Elliott Brack  |  GwinnettForum has released for sale the second edition of its small book, 366 Facts about Gwinnett County, Ga.  It is an updated version of the book released in 2018 for the Gwinnett Bicentennial. It is also “Improved.”

You may remember that former County Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash asked GwinnettForum to produce a list of  distinctive facts about this fast-growing county, to celebrate its Bicentennial in 2018.  She wanted to put one fact a day about the county on the county website.

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by · July 28, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Trump is the poster child of trying to delay justice

BRACK: Trump is the poster child of trying to delay justice

By Elliott Brack  |  It was four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809-1898) who is credited with the phrase, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” In the modern day, that phrase was brought back to popularity by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, smuggled out of prison in 1963.

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by · July 25, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: It was an unusual and frustrating car rental

BRACK: It was an unusual and frustrating car rental

By Elliott Brack  |  When on vacation, most of the time renting an automobile is relatively easy and routine. Our recent trip to New York didn’t fit into that category, for a couple of reasons.

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by · July 21, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
The water falls 215 feet.

BRACK: Visiting the Finger Lakes region in New York

By Elliott Brack  |  Last week was our first trip to the Finger Lakes region of New York, a scenic area of lakes, waterfalls, outdoor recreation, wineries galore, and lots of farming and treed hills.  Though some harsh rains poured on eastern New York earlier, our week saw nice days.

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by · July 18, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Peterson, via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Enjoy our favorite Canadian, Oscar Peterson

By Elliott Brack  |  Do you have a favorite Canadian? We do: late piano artist Oscar Peterson. Born in Montreal in 1925, he died in 2007. He is considered to have been the world’s greatest jazz pianist.

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by · July 11, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Schiphof

BRACK: A new celebrity here: Miss Georgia lives in Sugar Hill

By Elliott Brack  |  Gwinnett has a new celebrity. The new Miss Georgia, Tara Lynne Schiphof, lives in downtown Sugar Hill. She competed in the contest as Miss Capital City. 

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by · July 7, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Anyone know of a local, independent Internet service?

BRACK: Anyone know of a local, independent Internet service?

By Elliott Brack | You probably know it, but it is most frustrating dealing with communications companies. My telephone, internet and television services are with American Telephone and Telegraph, which seems to go to great lengths to make it difficult to talk to them.

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by · June 30, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: New Jersey residents must stand in awe of Georgia taxpayers

BRACK: New Jersey residents must stand in awe of Georgia taxpayers

By Elliott Brack  |   Those of you who don’t like to pay high property taxes ought to be pleased you don’t live in New Jersey. That state has the distinction of having the highest property tax in the nation. Residents of that state pay property tax at a rate of 2.13 percent.  Property tax owners in Georgia pay at a rate of 0.87 percent, right in the middle (25th) of all the states.

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by · June 27, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Help the shooting problem: Close the bars an hour earlier

BRACK: Help the shooting problem: Close the bars an hour earlier

By Elliott Brack  |  People around Atlanta, and really our whole country, are perplexed about what communities can do to prevent more deaths in shootings.  Shootings take place hither and yon all around our country. We have seen the shootings of downtown Atlanta expand to the suburbs, including Gwinnett County.

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by · June 23, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y. Via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Here’s why Edward Stack of New York is my hero

By Elliott Brack  |  Though I had never heard of Edward Stack before, he’s a hero of mine. Mr. Stack died recently at age 88 in New York. He had served for 60 years in leadership roles of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, ending as president and chairman. And he’s my hero because he’s the person who is responsible for keeping Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame because of his gambling addiction. 

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by · June 20, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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