Elliott Brack’s Perspective
BRACK: Readers suggest why so many people are voting early
By Elliott Brack | It puzzles me why people are standing in line for hours in record numbers to vote on the first two days of early voting. After all, they have all of three weeks to vote early. “Why was it?” I asked some people, just to try to figure this out. We were also trying to determine who would benefit from heavy voting.
NEW for 10/9: General election endorsement issue
Click here to read all of the endorsements by GwinnettForum … and more. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Here are GwinnettForum endorsements in upcoming general election
SPOTLIGHT: Law Office of J. Michael Levengood, LLC
FEEDBACK: Early Boston subway was funded by private firms with eminent domain
UPCOMING: Plein Air artists plan event in Duluth for three days
RECOMMENDED: Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia coastal waters provided tremendous varied resource
MYSTERY PHOTO: Official-looking structure is today’s Mystery Photo
BRACK: Original JFK sketch came to me through bureaucrats
By Elliott Brack | An original pencil drawing of former President John Kennedy is on the back wall of my office. It’s 60 years old, and has been on every office wall I have had all these journalistic years. There’s a story that goes with it about the way governmental bureaucrats anywhere get around regulations.
Gwinnett Forum | Jan. 10, 2025
“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 Eshter Perel (1958- ) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
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Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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