By Elliott Brack | A public health program with a 98 percent success rate that began in Conyers has been expanded to Gwinnett County and beyond. The counties forming Gwinnett Newton Rockdale Public Health Department, working with View Point Health of Lawrenceville, originally started the program with the Conyers Police Department.
By Elliott Brack | Gwinnett County Commissioners can avoid raising taxes in future years, even with a growing budget, if they will take a step now to ensure fairness among the county taxpayers. That’s because real property owners of Gwinnett are being reassessed this year, meaning most everyone will soon see an increase in their taxes. Property tax notices went out last week, but that tax was based on the previous year’s assessments.
By Elliott Brack | The wheels of progress sometimes turn mighty slowly. Yet every now and then, the wheel moves a little so that when changes arrive, it sometimes surprises us. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling to regulate climate change. That thwarted the Biden Administration. But help was soon to be on the way.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG.t 23, 2022 | The largest marketing agency in Gwinnett was once a Birmingham, Ala., company which bought a local business and made the Gwinnett office its headquarters. The Luckie agency was established in Gwinnett in 2011 and now employs 130 people, with 70 of them based at their 20,000 square foot entire second floor offices across from the City Hall in Duluth. The agency is among the 10th largest in Metro Atlanta.
By Elliott Brack | Cogitating today on the race for governor in less than three months: it appears that the race will be close. When Brian Kemp first went into office four years ago, some thought that he would serve for only one term, since his Democratic challenger, Stacey Abrams, had run a close race, would probably be more powerful in 2022, and clip his wings. Meanwhile,
By Elliott Brack | Something’s going on at the Post Office that belies understanding. The bad part is that postal officials haven’t responded to numerous requests for information on this. That looks bad. It’s something that is going on nationwide. It’s a scam involving a person writing a check routinely and dropping the check into the mail to pay a bill. Somehow, scammers find a way to intercept the check.
“Never tell anyone that you’re writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They’ll encourage you to death.”
– Comic Artist Lynn Johnston (“For Better or Worse”) (1947 – ).
The family-friendly event, Duluth Fall Festival, will take place on September 28-29. This is the 41st year, and the Festival has consistently been voted one of the top festivals in the entire area, including “Best Large Festival in the Southeast’” by national publications.
There will be more than 300 arts, crafts and food booths, a huge parade, entertainment at two venues, a 5K road race, and much more. If you would like more information, are interested in volunteering, etc., go to the Festival website:
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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